Dr. Adriana Ballón Ossio

Project Manager

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Dr. Adriana Ballón Ossio is a sustainability and development expert focusing on sustainable value chains, circular business models, environmental regulatory frameworks, biodiversity finance, and nature capital.

Areas of expertise

She connects policy and regulatory requirements with business realities, including work on deforestation-free supply chains and the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and supports sustainable and circular business model innovation through co-creation, design thinking, various types of workshops, stakeholder dialogues and practical experimentation.

Current work

With an open mind and a passion for innovation, she explores value-chain challenges and opportunities and enjoys creating impactful interventions together with those who will carry them forward.

Drawing on her work in various projects in the Global South, Adriana is an expert in developing voluntary sustainability approaches, such as codes of practice and agreements, and supporting their implementation through tailored capacity building and close collaboration with stakeholders.

She also contributes to innovative financing approaches for biodiversity protection and restoration, including needs assessment and the co-development and endorsement of biodiversity certificates to help mobilise private investment for nature.

Previous experience

Adriana has worked across Europe and Latin America with international organisations, public institutions, research organisations and private-sector and civil-society stakeholders.

Before joining CSCP, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Bolivia on sustainable development, alternative land-use and agricultural initiatives, environmental and social governance, and policy communication.

Her earlier consulting and research experience includes sustainable agriculture and ethical investment, natural-resource governance, extractive-industry conflicts and environmental policy implementation.

Education

• PhD in Environmental Policy, Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Germany
• MA in Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Licenciatura en Derecho (LL.B.-equivalent), Universidad Católica San Pablo, Bolivia

I believe we need to be bold when it comes to sustainability: think big, step outside our comfort zones and dare to aim high. We may not always get there, but the worst outcome is that we land somewhere better than where we started