Mrs Anita DIEDERICHSEN

Forest Landscape Restoration Global Leader, World Wide Fund for Nature - Brasil

Anita is the Global Lead for Forest Landscape Restoration and the Coordinator of WWF's Area of Collective Action and Innovation Community in WWF. Anita works with the Forest Practice from WWF International while embedded in WWF Brazil.  Anita is the WWF´s Focal point and member of the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration; member of the Best Practices Task Force of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, member of the IUFRO Task Force Transforming Forest Landscapes for Future Climates and Human Well-Being and  Coordinator of the Initiative 20x20 Policy and Legislation Task Force.

Anita has a dual Master’s degree: Conservation and Rural Development with distinction at University of Kent, UK awarded with the Chevening Scholarship FCO-UK, and Environmental Science from USP - Brazil. Anita is one of the leaders of the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNET) in Latin America promoting the use of the Conservation Standards.