Yolanda Kakabadse

Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro (* 1948 in Ecuador ) is an environmental activist from Ecuador.

Life

Since completing her degree in educational psychology at the Catholic University in Quito, she was active in environmental protection. She was the founder of Fundación Natura in Quito and its Chairman 1979 until 1990. Starting from 1990, she coordinated from Geneva, the participation of non-governmental organizations ( NGOs) at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. In 1993, she co-founded the Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, and served until 2006 as President of this NGO. From August 1998 to January 2000 she served as Minister of the Environment of the Government of Ecuador. From 1996 to 2004 she was president of the World Conservation Union ( IUCN). Kakabadse is also represented by the Ford Foundation and since 2004 is on the Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

Since January 2010, Yolanda Kakabadse is the president of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF).