Ana Simón

Ana Alí Simón has a B.Sc. in Biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she specialized in wildlife conservation, followed by postgraduate studies on Natural Resources. She recently finished an M.Phil. in Climate Change and Development at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, specializing in the policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation. She wants to create bridges between the natural and the social sciences.

Ana has over ten years of international, multicultural, and cross-sectoral professional experience. She has worked with government agencies, non-profits, universities, and the private sector. She has taught students from 10 different countries, managed projects in Mexico, in the Himalayas and rural India, and studied and tutored in South Africa. She has worked with fishermen, indigenous communities, as well as directly with major donors of non-profits and directors of government secretariats. The driving force of her career is to create positive change in the world.