Ms Liliana Andrea MARTINEZ SARMIENTO

Head of Global Biodiversity/Impelentation, South Pole

Liliana is a leader in the integral management of strategic ecosystems (especially paramos, Andean forest, Amazon forest and wetlands), protected areas, and watersheds. Currently, as Head of Global Biodiversity/Impelentation for South Pole, she is promoting the biodiversity protection and implementation of sustainable activities. Additionally, she is an adviser on the development of compensation schemes for environmental services, including the development of monitoring systems. 

As manager of the Bogota's Water Fund, she leads a group of professionals, and together they worked with private companies, communities, and the public sector, in promoting the conservation of supply water systems Bogota City and its area of influence, through the establishment of alliances between primary users whose demand water for resources increases continuously and the communities in the upper watersheads.