Coordination Team

Ana Maria Gonzalez Velosa
Senior Environmental Specialist
World Bank

Ana Maria is a Colombian national who has worked since 2008 at the World Bank in conservation and sustainable development projects in Africa and Latin America. She is currently the co-manager of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program. Before, she worked at The Nature Conservancy, and in her home country in multiple research, public and civil society organizations. Ana Maria is an economist with masters in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics from Universidad de los Andes , and in International Development from George Washington University. She is also the mother of two boys.

Tanya Yudelman
Environmental and Natural Resources Management Consultant, World Bank

Tanya is a biologist with over 25 years of experience working at the interface of environmental and social aspects of sustainable development in Africa and Latin America. Currently a member of the World Bank’s Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program core team, she supports the Regional Coordination and Brazil projects. Her particular areas of focus are biodiversity conservation and financing, natural resource management, community driven development and integrated coastal zone management. Tanya’s fascination with the environment started at an early age, exploring the weird and wonderful fauna and flora in South Africa, England and Portugal.

Sandra Berman
Consultant
World Bank

Sandra Berman is an agricultural engineer from AgroParisTech (France) with a Master in Ecology (EBE, France) and a LLM in Environmental Law and Policies from the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK). She lives in Brazil since almost three years and is working as a consultant for the World Bank on the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project funded by the GEF, on topics related to improving management of protected areas, reducing deforestation, encouraging sustainable value chains for standing forests, forest restoration and coordination of international donors. She participates in the implementation of the Regional project of ASL1 and preparation of the Amazon Regional TA for ASL2; as well as in the implementation of the Brazil ASL1 project and preparation of the Brazil ASL2 project.

Berenice Sanchez
Communications
World Bank

Berenice, a Mexican national, assists with the implementation of the Communications Strategy of the Sustainable Landscapes of the Amazon Program. Before joining the World Bank, she worked at the Embassy of Mexico to the United States and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Berenice studied Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Veracruz (Mexico) and Photography at Boston University (USA). She holds a master's degree in Cultural Management from Carlos III University (Spain).

Daniel Sumalavia
Consultant
World Bank

Daniel, a Peruvian national, has been a consultant for the World Bank in the Sustainable Landscapes of the Amazon Program since 2019, he has worked for more than 10 years on issues of environmental law and indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America, both at the level of international organizations, government and civil society. Previously, he worked at the Organization of American States (OAS), the Rights and Resources Initiative, and the Ministry of Culture of his country. Daniel is a lawyer from PUCP (Peru) with a master's degree in International Legal Studies with a specialization in Environmental Law from the American University (USA).

Christel Moller
Consultant
World Bank

Christel is originally from Guatemala. She graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a bachelor in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage. She holds a Masters in Cultural Management from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Shortly after finishing her studies, she moved to Australia to work in Cultural Affairs at the Spanish Embassy and, since October 2019, I am part of the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Team at the World Bank. She is passionate about traveling, discovering different places and meeting new people.

Rafael Gomez Rodriguez
Consultant
World Bank

Economist with more than 25 years of experience as an advisor to multilateral and bilateral development institutions as well as to private entities in results-oriented management, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. His expertise is focused on planning, monitoring and evaluation, budgeting for results and knowledge management. He has led different projects on a national and local scale in Colombia, Mexico and other Latin American countries, in areas ranging from sustainable management in territories of high biodiversity, to the design and implementation of sectoral and national policies. He also has a master's in Sustainable Tourism Management. He is currently a consultant for the World Bank in the design and execution of projects for the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Humberto “Tito” Cabrera
Consultant
World Bank

Tito is a biologist and ecologist with more than 20 years of experience in biodiversity conservation and over 17 years of experience with environmental funds and biodiversity conservation and climate change programmes and projects. A member of the ASL Coordination team, he co-facilitates the ASL protected sustainable finance working group. Tito lives in Lima with his family and heads out to nature at every opportunity.

Amy Juelsgaard
Consultant
World Bank

Amy joined the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program as a consultant in 2021 to focus on effective donor collaboration, funding analyses, and monitoring and evaluation. Before joining the World Bank, she worked for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Andes-Amazon Initiative managing a range of projects focused on biodiversity conservation, securing indigenous territories, and sustainable development in the Amazon Basin. She has a Master of Science in environmental management from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Charo Lanao
Facilitator / Consultant
ASL Conference

Charo is an agent of change with a vision of a world in which we recognize the interdependence between people and nature. Charo invites her clients to think with the heart and feel with the mind. She supports individuals and organizations to imagine possibilities, maintain intentions and commitments, and adapt creatively and flexibly to uncertainty.

She is an enthusiastic and energetic person. She is a creative and proactive people-centered and solution-oriented trainer, a strategic coach and knows how to deal with complex situations. Charo is committed to quality, collaboration, innovative solutions, and meaningful transformation. She has extensive work experience in the Amazon region. She has a master's degree in Latin American Studies - Conservation and Development from the University of Florida.