Our Team

Antropologist and Ethnobiologist of Swiss nationality. She lives in Peru with her husband since 2006. She works as researcher for the Center for the Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Berne, Switzerland since 2002. She is currently concluding her doctoral research on the transformation of local medicinal knowledge in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes. She works as an adviser for regional program BioAndes of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); program that aims at the conservation of biocultural diversity in Andean regions of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador since 2006. She also lectures within the Masters program “Agroecology, Culture and Sustainable Endogenous Development in Latin America” of the center AGRUCO, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia, since 2007. Her professional experience focuses on transdisciplinarity, sustainable development and natural resources management, traditional ecological knowledge, and social learning processes.

A Rocha Peru adherent member. 

Ramón Casana is a Biologist, M.S. student of Environmental Management of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. He is also principal pastor of the church “Comunidad Carismática Cristiana” in this city. He is interested in wetland conservation in the coast and is working on a thesis project entitled: “Physical and Anthropical impacts in the Campo Nuevo-Guadalupito wetlands in valle del Santa, La Libertad”. This project is a priority in A Rocha Peru.