Hugo Costa (President)

Collaborator of Euronatura since October 2007 and coordinator (since February 2008) of the project "Climate Change and Business Management" (www.responsabilidadeclimatica.org). Hugo has a master in Environmental Engineering from the New University of Lisbon - Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT-UNL). He took an internship course in the Department of Environment at the Facoltà di Architettura e Società - Politecnico di Milano. He has previously worked at the Department of Environment of the Municipality of Cascais; has worked as an external consultant in projects of Environment and has experience in ecological monitoring.


Ignacio García Pereda (Director)

Ignacio García Pereda is currently one of the three members of the board of Euronatura and an associate researcher since 2006. Ignacio has a degree in Forest Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with postgraduate studies in International Forest Policy at the École Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et des Forêts, Montpellier, France. Since 2007 he has coordinated a project on History and Forest Policy about the forester Joaquim Vieira Natividade (www.joaquimvieiranatividade.com). Ignacio is presently doing his PhD thesis on Spanish Forest Policies.


Rita Sousa (Director)

Currently visiting assistant at the Department of Economics of Minho University and at the MIT Sustainable Energy Doctoral Program of Engineering Faculty of Porto University, she has collaborated with Euronatura since 2004 launching projects such as "Climate Change and Business Management" and “Perverse Subsidies”. She was part of the Portuguese Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change during the Portuguese presidency of the EU Council (2007), and also in 2009 for the Copenhagen COP. She also worked in consultancy for SW where she developed a Carbon and Sustainability department, in the Energy Unit of INESC Porto, and also in the National Park Peneda-Gerês.

Rita has a degree in Economics, a MSc in Economics and Politics of Energy and the Environment, and is now starting her  PhD thesis for Nova University of Lisbon in issues related to “carbon markets linking”.

André Baltazar (Researcher)

Collaborates with Euronatura as research assistant in the project "ACGE - Climate Change and Business Management" (www.responsabilidadeclimatica.org). André is promoting the implementation in Portugal of the Carbon Disclosure Project (www.cdproject.net) and is undertaking research on REDD. He’s attending the Master in Environmental Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon.

Stefania Mattarello (Researcher)

Coordinates the project "ECA-Ibéria" and is responsible for the participation of Euronatura in the ECA-Watch and the EuroIFI networks. In addition, she is conducting sociological research on women within the Portuguese cork industry  through the project “Cork Women”. Stefania has a degree in Foreign Languages, Arts, History and Civilization at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice, Italy. Her final thesis was a research project on Macau and its communal identity: "The Macanese community: an approach to its identity and its dynamics.


Alba Valle Basanta (Researcher)

Coordinates the project "Illegal logging in Mozambique" and undertakes research on  REDD. Also, she collaborates in the project "ECA-Ibéria" and is responsible for the participation of Euronatura in the ECA-Watch and the EuroIFI networks. Alba holds an MSc in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Political Science and Administration at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain).

Korinna Horta (Visiting Fellow)

Researcher at the Environmental Defense (USA), Korinna Horta has for several years proved an essential friend of Euronatura. Specialist in issues related to financial flows (Nort-South), Korinna collaborate with Euronatura in projects such as Eca-Iberia and other activities related to the world of finance.

Sara Taveira (Researcher)

Collaborates with Euronatura since February 2010 as the executor of the project EU CO2 80/50. Sara has a degree in Environmental Management and a master in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and since then she has worked with several institutions like the European Commission, DG Agriculture, the Metropolitan Area of Porto, Spain's URS, among others.

Fernanda Chiebao (Researcher)

Collaborates with Euronatura since March 2010 with the research topic "Cork and Architecture",  a project aimed at informing, raising awareness and promoting the use of cork in buildings. Fernanda has a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the "University North of Paraná" (Brazil) and a Masters in Environmental and Regional Policies for Sustainability in Local Development  at the "University of Ferrara" (Italy).