Yolanda Kakabadse

Yolanda Kakabadse as speaker at the World Water Week in Stockholm (2013)

Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro (born September 15, 1948 in Quito , Ecuador ) is an internationally recognized Ecuadorian environmental politician of Georgian descent. She is one of the world's most renowned experts in the field of environmental protection and nature conservation and has held several high-ranking functions within national and international organizations.

Life

Since studying educational psychology at the Catholic University in Quito , she has been committed to environmental protection . She was the founder of the Fundación Natura in Quito and its chairman from 1979 to 1990. From 1990 she coordinated the participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 from Geneva . In 1993 she co-founded the Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano and served as the president of this NGO until 2006 .

From August 1998 to January 2000, Kakabadse served as Environment Minister for the government of Ecuador. From 1996 to 2004 she was President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Kakabadse is also a representative of the Ford Foundation and has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction since 2004 .

From January 2010 to November 2017, Yolanda Kakabadse was the President of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF).

Honors (selection)

Yolanda Kakabadse has received numerous awards for her commitment, including:

1990: Order of Merit of the Republic of Ecuador
1991: Global 500 Award from the United Nations Environment Program
1991: Order of the Golden Ark , donated by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
2001: Zayed International Prize for the Environment , one of the world's most valuable prizes in the field of environmental protection
2008: Honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia (Doctor in Science (ScD) Honoris Causa)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Education Without Borders: Yolanda Kakabadse ( Memento from February 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b TEEB: Yolanda Kakabadse ( Memento from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Hesselink, Frits; Čeřovský, Jan: Learning to Change the Future (PDF; 530 kB) , IUCN 2008, page 22. Retrieved on April 4, 2011.
↑ Holcim Foundation: Advisory Board: Yolanda Kakabadse . Retrieved April 4, 2011.
^ WWF: New President at WWF International . January 14, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ Yolanda Kakabadse. Webster University , accessed December 31, 2019 .
^ Zayed International Prize for the Environment. zayedprize.org.ae, accessed December 31, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kakabadse, Yolanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ecuadorian conservationist and environment minister, president of WWF
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Quito , Ecuador

[ed-1] A ^b Education Without Borders: Yolanda Kakabadse ( Memento from February 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved April 4, 2011.

[teeb-2] TEEB: Yolanda Kakabadse ( Memento from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved April 4, 2011.

[hesselink-3] Hesselink, Frits; Čeřovský, Jan: Learning to Change the Future (PDF; 530 kB) , IUCN 2008, page 22. Retrieved on April 4, 2011.

[holcim-4] Holcim Foundation: Advisory Board: Yolanda Kakabadse . Retrieved April 4, 2011.

[wwf-5] WWF: New President at WWF International . January 14, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2011.

[6] Yolanda Kakabadse. Webster University , accessed December 31, 2019 .

[7] Zayed International Prize for the Environment. zayedprize.org.ae, accessed December 31, 2019 .