Carmen Delicia Antelo Natusch
Country Director, Bolivia
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
carmenantelo@naturabolivia.org

Carmen Delicia Antelo Natusch is a graduate in International Relations with a diploma in Foreign Trade and Customs, and a diploma in Classroom Organization and Pedagogical Administration. She has extensive experience in public management, administration of development projects and planning.  She worked as Coordinator of the Language Centre at the UTEPSA University. She had the pleasure of accompanying the Ministry of Autonomies of the Plurinational State of Bolivia for 2 years supporting the process of the 1st Indigenous Autonomy of Bolivia called Charagua Iyambae and other decentralization processes.

Carmen also worked as Head of Planning in the State Autonomy Service, carrying out projects such as: Rural Markets Project, an initiative of the Swiss Cooperation in Bolivia executed by the Swisscontact and PROFIN Foundations, in municipalities of La Paz, Oruro, Potosí, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Tarija in the framework of the policy of including governance as a cross-cutting theme in their interventions and in the project called Support for the Implementation of the Autonomy and Decentralization Regime – AIRAD of the GIZ and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bolivia. She also served as Coordinator of Cooperation and International Relations for the Autonomous Departmental Government of Santa Cruz, leading the participation of subnational states in the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCFTF) and positioning the Department’s Climate Agenda internationally. She currently serves as Director of Sustainability and Innovation at Fundación Natura Bolivia, leading sustainable projects on access to water, conservation and capacity building for subnational states, among some of the most important.

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