Maureen Santos

Political scientist and ecologist. Coordinator of the Socio-Environmental Justice Program at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brazil. She is a lecturer in the undergraduate program in International Relations at the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio and a researcher at the Socio-Environmental Platform of the BRICS Policy Center. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science from IFCS/UFRJ (2007) and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Estácio de Sá University (2002). From 2003 to 2013, she worked for the NGO FASE – Federação de Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (Federation of Organizations for Social and Educational Assistance), carrying out grassroots training, popular education and building networks on international trade, regional integration, the environment and climate change. She has been monitoring the negotiations at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2008, especially the issue of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and Agriculture. She was part of the research team for the study on climate change and food security by the FAO’s High Level Panel on Food Security. She is the organizer of the Meat Atlas and co-organizer and one of the authors of the Agribusiness Atlas, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
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