Natalia Greene is an Ecuadorian activist and political scientist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts at Hampshire College, Massachusetts, Master’s degree in Social Sciences from FLACSO-Ecuador, and a Master’s degree in Climate Change and Sustainable Development from UASB-EC. She has promoted the recognition of Rights for Nature in Ecuador’s Constitution and has worked on the environmental and indigenous aspects of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative to keep oil underground in the Amazon. She was previously President, and is currently Vice President, of the Ecuadorian Coordinator of Organisations for the Defense of Nature and the Environment (CEDENMA). Natalia is also a member of GARN’s Executive Committee, and Global Coordinator of GARN, secretary of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, and an expert of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative network since 2016.
