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Leticia is a consultant, lecturer and entrepreneur in the field of management and international cooperation for sustainable development. Since 2019, she is also the Director of World Entrepreneurs, an international cooperation and management
consulting organization that operates in the field of sustainable development management, entrepreneurship, innovation and global partnerships, in accordance with the goals, principles and values of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

Leticia holds a University Masters’ Degree in Economics and a Public Master on Trade and Enterprise Internationalization. She is an Expert on Management and International Cooperation for Sustainable Development with more than 15 years of experience in project management and business development. She has collaborated with different international organizations, including UNCTAD, ITC, ILO, UNDP, ASEAN, SELA, ECLAC, PAHO, as well as with the private sector and public institutions, in a wide range of projects in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation, investment, international trade and cooperation for sustainable development in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
She joined the UN system from 2004 to 2013 to work for the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), including for the UN flagship programme on entrepreneurship
development and its global network spanning across some 30 countries around the world. In 2009, she was also appointed Focal Point of the UN CEB Interagency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity to coordinate 15 UN agencies for the development and implementation of the UN system-wide technical assistance frameworks and national plans of action for socio-economic development in Latin America. Since 2014, Leticia has also worked in different projects from the private sector, including on finance for sustainable development, science innovation and entrepreneurship, health and technology and the development and set up of World Entrepreneurs in 2019.
She currently leads World Entrepreneurs with the aim to inspire, support and connect people and organizations
from different sectors to implement the sustainable development goals with their initiatives and projects, and to facilitate
collaborative models in key socio-economic sectors for a more inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth for All.

Managing Director of Andalusia Emprende, a Public Foundation dedicates to fostering culture, entrepreneurial and business activity by providing support services to entrepreneurs and self-employed people, to help them creating and consolidating businesses and employments. Rosa has over twenty years of working experience as a counselor and mentor for national and international companies, start-ups, business confederations and NGOs, as well as the Andalusían and Spanish governments.  Her leadership in the implementation of new organizational strategic directions has been impacting teams in Europe and Latin America. She is committed to entrepreneurship, innovation, the new ways of working and organizational transformation for social change and development, efficiency as well as impact-centred public service. With a keen awareness of entrepreneurship as a multi-faceted phenomenon showing a wide range of rich and diverse experiences, she plays an active role in business and innovation forums, devotedly encouraging entrepreneurs to fulfill their goals. In the field of entrepreneurship and leadership, she collaborates with organisations such as TEAM –an Spanish acronym standing for Andalusian Companies’ Talent in Madrid-, and various women´s groups, like the Jaen Businesswomen and Female Professionals Federation or the Inspiring Committed Leaders Foundation.

Laia is lecturer at International University of Catalonia (UIC); and research fellow at The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal, a Brussels-based think tank. She has participated in the design and implementation of more than 20 studies and projects for the European Commission, notably for the Directorate General of Communications Networks, Content and Technology and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Laia has 15 years experience in design and implementation of innovation and IT policies at international level, notably as head of international strategy in the innovation and research center of the Andalusia region I2BC (Spain), as head of European projects at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre of IESE Business School, and as founder of her own company Outsight S.L. She has a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from ESADE Business School. During the Ph.D., she was a visiting researcher at McDonough Business School at Georgetown University for the academic year 2017-2018. She has a Master of Research in Management Science by ESADE; Master in Political Science by Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po) and BSc Political science by the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She also completed an executive course on Regulation in London School of Economics.

A graduate in Biological Sciences, she is a rural entrepreneur in Sierra de Ronda. She worked as a technician in the Natural Reserve of Grazalema (Cádiz, Spain) for more than eight years. She currently runs her own business, called MicoTime, dedicated to Mycology and the Environment. There, they not also carry out projects and consultancy related to fungi, mushrooms and environmental issues, but also make the territory and natural resources known by means of myco-tourism activities and environmental education, thus sustainably using this habitat while providing a unique experience for their clients. Besides, they work in mushroom production lines, field mushroom grow kits and also biomaterials made with fungi as a line of innovation. As a result of her business career, she has received various national awards. For instance, she was a runner-up in the 1st Edition of Coca-Cola’s Gira Mujeres Award in 2017; also, a second finalist on Rural Women Challenge 2017, awarded by the Women’s Institute and the Spanish Ministery of Presidence in 2018 and Winner of the 1st Edition of Extraordinarias by Facebook in February, 2020.

Founder of the Amazonia Emprende Forest School: www.amazoniaemprende.com.

He has more than 15 years’ experience working in Green Business and Sustainable Entrepreneurship. In the last five years he has been focusing on the fight against the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

He was the coordinator of the Joint Declaration of Intent (reduction of greenhouse gas emissions derived from deforestation), a document aimed to back the Ministery of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia in its effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation (REDD+), whilst fostering the sustainable development of this country.

As an expert in sustainable commercial linkages and zero-deforestation value chains, while he was hired by the GFA Consulting Group GmbH he worked in promoting a close relationship between private companies and those green businesses which show ecosystemic preservation practices in Colombia, so as to integrate the latter´s sustainable products and services into sustainable supply chains. He has also been developing subject matter, and has been a coach for public officials and consultants, in the field of entrepreneurship in Colombia.

He also worked as a Latin America consultant for UNITAR –United Nations Institute for Training and Research- and as an implementer of programmes on sustainable business consumption and development for UN-Environment between 2015 and 2018, supporting the systematization of public policies for business development and sustainable entrepreneurship within the framework of green growth and the design of the communication and training strategy of the `Food Loss and Waste reduction‘ programme.

A member of The International Smart Speakers Group and also of Procolombia on climate change. He has been a lecturer of the Export Route (Ruta Exportadora) 2020 in the 32 Colombian departments aimed at training over ten thousand entrepreneurs, businesspeople and public officials in 2020 on sustainability, green business and climate change applied to the eco-friendly tourism sector.

Since June 2018, he is a weekly columnist for Revista Dinero (Money magazine) in the field of green business, with an average of more than twenty thousand readers for each column.

He was awarded the Green Cross for Environmental Merit Alexander Von Humboldt by the German Government in 2020 and the Prize for Journalism on Creative Economy Deutsche Welle in 2018: https://cutt.ly/TteWuRp