1. Brigitte Baptiste was born on Luis Guillermo Baptiste October 23,1963 and is a Colombian cultural landscape ecologist and an expert on environmental issues and biodiversity in Colombia.
16 Facts About Brigitte Baptiste
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Brigitte Baptiste is a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and has been part of the national representation to the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.
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Brigitte Baptiste served as director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute from 2011 until 2019.
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In September 2019, Baptiste became the director of Universidad Ean.
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Brigitte Baptiste considers that queerness and ecology are linked together.
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Brigitte Baptiste studied biology at the Pontifical Xavierian University, where she graduated with a thesis on the ecology of fishing in Araracuara, Amazon.
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Brigitte Baptiste continued her graduate studies as part of the Russell Train Program of the World Wildlife Fund at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Environmental Sciences in 2000.
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Brigitte Baptiste's dissertation is titled, "The concept of main ecological structure and its potential as environmental management tool for biodiversity".
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Brigitte Baptiste has had a long career in both nonprofit and academic spheres.
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Brigitte Baptiste returned to Pontifical University from 2002 to 2009 to teach and research as an assistant professor.
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Brigitte Baptiste served as the director of the Humboldt Institute from 2011 to 2019.
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Brigitte Baptiste serves on the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as a member of its Global Panel of 25 experts on behalf of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Brigitte Baptiste is a member of the IAI's Science Policy Advisory Committee and the scientific committee of the global program PECS.
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Brigitte Baptiste was a prominent voice advocating for a peace deal in the Colombian Civil War.
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Brigitte Baptiste is a columnist in the economic newspaper La Republica.
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In December 2024, Brigitte Baptiste was included on the BBC's 100 Women list.