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supporting local communities’ resource and related rights across southern Africa.
Ms Jansen holds a Master’s degree in Indigenous Peoples in International Law
from the University of Arizona (USA) and a Master’s degree in the Rule of Law
for Development from Loyola University (Chicago), completed in Rome, Italy.
She is an Indigenous expert member to the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights’ special mechanism – the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa.
Pía Marchegiani Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Argentina);
Environmental Policy Director, FARN (Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), Argentina.
Pía Marchegiani holds a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires
(2005) and a Master’s in Social Sciences from the Global Studies Programme
granted jointly by the University of Freiburg, Germany and the University of
Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (2010). She is currently a PhD candidate at the
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Argentina), the Environmental Policy Director at FARN and, since 2011, a lecturer at the Environmental Law Legal Clinic run by FARN and the Faculty of Law of the University
of Buenos Aires. She works to support communities asserting their rights in the
context of lithium mining.
Louisa Parks Associate Professor of Political Sociology, School of International
Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento,
Italy.
Louisa Parks is the author of Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: Local
Experiences of a Global Concept, published in 2020 by Routledge, and a former research fellow of the BeneLex project on benefit-sharing in global environmental
law. She has published articles on community protocols, the discursive spaces for
Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ views in the Convention on Biological Diversity, and their participation in the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Her past research has focused on transnational social movements, civil society
and the impacts of campaigning in the European Union.
Manohisoa Rakotondrabe is a trained agronomist with a focus on emerging
social and economic systems in rural areas. She holds a PhD in natural r esource
management and development. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the
ANR Bioculturalis project, based at the Legal Research Center (CRJ) of the
University of Grenoble Alpes, where she works on issues around the development of Biocultural Community Protocols for the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge in Madagascar. She had previously worked in
Madagascar as a consultant for some natural resource conservation projects such
as UNDP and GIZ.
supporting local communities’ resource and related rights across southern Africa.
Ms Jansen holds a Master’s degree in Indigenous Peoples in International Law
from the University of Arizona (USA) and a Master’s degree in the Rule of Law
for Development from Loyola University (Chicago), completed in Rome, Italy.
She is an Indigenous expert member to the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights’ special mechanism – the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa.
Pía Marchegiani Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Argentina);
Environmental Policy Director, FARN (Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), Argentina.
Pía Marchegiani holds a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires
(2005) and a Master’s in Social Sciences from the Global Studies Programme
granted jointly by the University of Freiburg, Germany and the University of
Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (2010). She is currently a PhD candidate at the
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Argentina), the Environmental Policy Director at FARN and, since 2011, a lecturer at the Environmental Law Legal Clinic run by FARN and the Faculty of Law of the University
of Buenos Aires. She works to support communities asserting their rights in the
context of lithium mining.
Louisa Parks Associate Professor of Political Sociology, School of International
Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento,
Italy.
Louisa Parks is the author of Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: Local
Experiences of a Global Concept, published in 2020 by Routledge, and a former research fellow of the BeneLex project on benefit-sharing in global environmental
law. She has published articles on community protocols, the discursive spaces for
Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ views in the Convention on Biological Diversity, and their participation in the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Her past research has focused on transnational social movements, civil society
and the impacts of campaigning in the European Union.
Manohisoa Rakotondrabe is a trained agronomist with a focus on emerging
social and economic systems in rural areas. She holds a PhD in natural r esource
management and development. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the
ANR Bioculturalis project, based at the Legal Research Center (CRJ) of the
University of Grenoble Alpes, where she works on issues around the development of Biocultural Community Protocols for the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge in Madagascar. She had previously worked in
Madagascar as a consultant for some natural resource conservation projects such
as UNDP and GIZ.