Silvia Gómez - Climate and Land Use Alliance

Silvia Gómez

Colombia & Peru Initiative Lead

Climate and Land Use Alliance

Silvia has extensive experience collaborating with people to conserve nature. Silvia has accompanied diverse Indigenous organizations in Colombia, Brazil, and in a number of African countries in social and technical mapping processes; as well as in the development, management, monitoring, and evaluation of international cooperation projects, and in the design, management, and implementation of intercultural initiatives in health, education, and environmental management.

Most recently, Silvia was a Trustee of the Gaia Foundation and the Executive Director of the Gaia Amazonas Foundation. Prior to that, Silvia was the Director of Greenpeace Colombia (2014-2021), and also served as the Deputy Director of Greenpeace’s Andean Program (focused on Argentina, Chile, and Colombia). Other experience includes being the co-founder of Efecto Mariposa (an organization that developed and conducted holistic science programs in Colombia), an advisor to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), an advisor to the Ministry of Culture in Colombia (where she headed a process that led to the inclusion of the traditional knowledge of the Jaguar Shamans of Yuruparí to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list), and co-author and editor of The Lands of the Jaguars of Yuruparí (2011).

An anthropologist by training, Silvia lived for almost 10 years alongside Indigenous Amazonian communities in the Pirá Paraná River in the Colombian Amazon as a field coordinator with Gaia Amazonas. This experience taught her about the value of forests to people and life. She’s committed her work to stopping the destruction of nature and advancing the transition toward a more sustainable future ever since.

Silvia holds a Masters in Holistic Sciences from Schumacher College in the UK, and a degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.

Silvia lives in Bogota, Colombia and loves being in nature, cooking, and being a mother to her two girls.