Founding Member Profile – Silvia Ribeiro


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Name: Silvia Ribeiro
Position: Latin America Director
Organisation: ETC group

Brief profile:

  • Based in Mexico
  • Having a background as a journalist and environmental campaigner in Uruguay, Brazil and Sweden
  • Having extensive experience in social and environmental advocacy
  • Civil society representative who has attended and followed the negotiations of several of United Nations environmental treaties
  • Having also been an invited speaker at many civil society events around the world speaking on transgenic and other new technologies, corporate concentration, intellectual property, indigenous and farmers’ rights
  • Having also produced a number of articles related to these issues, that have been published in Latin American, European and North American magazines and papers, as well as chapters in several books
  • Member of the editorial committee of the Latin American magazine “Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas”, published by Alianza Biodiversidad: Grain, ETC Group (México), Acción Ecológica (Ecuador), Campaña Semillas (Colombia), La Vía Campesina, Campaña de la semilla (Chile), Centro Ecológico (Brazil), Sobrevivencia (Paraguay), Acción por la Biodiversidad (Argentina), Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad (Costa Rica)