Cecilia Viana
Consultant & Advisor
Brazil Initiative
Climate and Land Use Alliance
Cecilia is a Brazilian Geographer with a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Yale University and PhD in Sustainable Development from University of Brasília (Brazil). Prior to joining CLUA, Cecilia worked with local and international organizations on projects related to Indigenous and Traditional community rights, environmental governance, and development alternatives aligned with biodiversity conservation and social well-being. She was previously a researcher, having collaborated in the Sustainable Amazon Network, first as a field assistant in a large multidisciplinary project, and later as a postdoctoral fellow at Lancaster University.