Diana Milena Figueroa Gutierrez
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Diana Gutierrez holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and is currently pursuing a master's degree in political science at the Otto Suhr Institute (OSI) at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). For her master's thesis, she is examining justice-based approaches to multilateral climate arrangements, such as climate clubs, for the ClimAct project. Under the supervision of Charlotte Unger, she will examine how procedural and distributional justice have evolved in coalitions of state and non-state actors, particularly the CCAC.
In her previous work experience, she has worked in both consulting and academic research projects. In the development cooperation sector, she assisted the International Forest Policy department at GIZ with the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned report for the REDD+ voluntary carbon storage programme's readiness phase. For the inter- and transdisciplinary research project PRODIGY, Diana conducted semi-structured interviews with community leaders to identify social tipping points that contribute to soil and land use transformations in the Amazon region. In her free time, she enjoys bike tours, long treks in the mountains and chess boxing.
Groups
*Student Assistant at GIZ GmbH in the International Forest Policy Global Programme (04.2025-09.2025) *Intern in the International Forest Policy, Global Programme at GIZ GmbH (10.2024-03.2025) *Student Assistant at PRODIGY in the Institute of Latin American Studies, Freie University in Berlin (11.2021-09.2024) *Participation in the ASA programme “Supporting an initiative for women's rights in the strategic development of new partnerships” in Ecuador (May 2021–November 2021). *Intern at DaMigra e.V. (02.2021-05.2021)
*International Climate Governance *International Forest-related Climate Finance *Land Use Transformation in the Amazon Region *Qualitative Methods and Community-Based Participatory Research
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
*Schilling, J., Cuellar, C. P., Froese, R., Figueroa, Diana, Villavicencio, M., Werland, L., & Schönenberg, R. (2024): “All we have left is to defend our reserve”. Social structures and community resistance to large-scale gold mining in the Manuripi Wildlife Reserve in northern Bolivia. The Extractive Industries and Society: EStIF, 20: 101574. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2024.101574. *Pinzón, Claudia; Froese, Rebecca; Schilling, Janpeter, Figueroa, Diana, Werland, Luise; Schönenberg, Regine (2023): Environmental Peacebuilding und Goldabbau. Widerstand in einem Schutzgebiet in Bolivien. In: Wissenschaft und Frieden. vol. 41. no. 2. pp. 20-24 *Froese R, Andrino A, Giudice R, Stuch B, Kilian Salas S, Böhner J, Boy D, Boy J, Brown F, Díaz García E, Figueroa, Diana, Frör O, Guggenberger G, Horn MA, Hasson Su, Jung C, Lagneaux EG, Meurer KHE, Pinzón C, Schaldach R, Ribeiro SC, Schilling J, Schmidt FA, Schönenberg R, Selaya G, Vega CM, Vetter VMS, Villavicencio M, Callo-Concha D, Jansen M and Jungkunst HF (2023): Describing complex interactions of social-ecological systems for tipping point assessments: an analytical framework. Front. Clim. 5:1145942. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1145942 *Montero, Paola; Figueroa, Diana; Bernal, Angie (2019) Fealdad, gracia y libertinaje. Estética y modernidad en el pensamiento colombiano. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. ISBN: 9789585688407