Ms Andrea CARMEN

Executive Director, International Indian Treaty Council

Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Nation, became a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council in 1983 and its Executive Director in 1992.  Andrea was IITC’s team leader for work on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in 1997 was one of two Indigenous representatives to address the UN General Assembly for the first time at the UN Earth Summit +5.   In 2006, Andrea was selected as Rapporteur for the UN Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples’ Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and their Relationship to Land, the first Indigenous woman to serve as Rapporteur for a UN Expert Seminar.  She has been an invited expert at UN sessions addressing a wide range of issues and in 2019 was selected to represent North America Indigenous Peoples on the Facilitative Working Group for the UNFCCC Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform.  She served as its 2nd co-chair until May 2021.