Dr Avecita CHICCHON

Program Director Andes-Amazon Initiative , Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Dr. Avecita Chicchón has over 30 years of experience in the environmental field. As Program Director of the Andes-Amazon Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, she works to achieve the consolidation of protected areas and indigenous lands while addressing drivers of habitat change across the Amazon Basin.  Before joining Moore, Avecita served as the Executive Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society, leading the organization’s work in 15 countries. While Program Officer for the MacArthur Foundation, she was responsible for the Tropical Andes and the Caribbean portfolios and in the 1990s, Avecita worked for Conservation International as its first Country Director in Peru.

Avecita studied social sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and University of Cincinnati. She holds a PhD in anthropology from University of Florida.