Mirna Inés Fernández is a Researcher at the biodiversity programme of Third World Network. She is an environmental engineer from Bolivia with a M.Sc. in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems. She is a founding member and a former global policy coordinator of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, the youth constituency to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. At the national level, Mirna is a co-founder of the GYBN Bolivian chapter and of Reacción Climática, a citizen collective promoting action to address sustainability in Bolivia. Her work experience goes through environmental impact assessments, education and capacity development, environmental advocacy and policy research.