Claudia Coleoni
Brazil
Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc), 2018
Linacre College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann
Cláudia earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management from the University of São Paulo in 2015, including a one-year scholarship by the Brazilian government at Indiana University Bloomington, USA. She earned her MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management at the University of Oxford in 2018, focusing her MSc thesis on how water-related ecosystem services can be integrated into river basin management within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome.
Cláudia’s interests lie in water governance and river basin management, climate change, ecosystem services and urban forestry, having performed academic and/or professional activities in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, USA, Canada, China, Thailand, Australia, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. She has over 4 years of experience in water management, having joined a European Commission’s water project (Eco Cuencas), which tackled climate change in Latin America. She has also monitored projects on Payments for Ecosystem Services within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai (PCJ) river basins.
She has been an ambassador for food security for the Youth Ag-Summit network (Bayer CropScience) in Australia (2015), the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the NGO World Merit in New York City (2016), and the UNLEASH Innovation Lab in Shenzhen, China (2019), where she represented Brazil in the SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation.
Cláudia is currently a Research Assistant at the Stockholm Environment Institute Latin America Centre in Bogotá, Colombia, where she has been working on the Bolivia WATCH Project—or WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) Thinking Connected to Hydrology—to ensure both clean and available water in priority river basins in Bolivia, and on the Water Beyond Boundaries initiative in the Magdalena-Cauca river basin, Colombia, and the Mekong river basin, Southeast Asia. She is also the Latin American Ambassador for the Water Science Policy (WSP) hub, leading WSP’s Latin America strategy and outreach to partners from institutions across the WASH sector, nature, and climate communities.