María Pía Hernández Palacios is a lawyer specializing in international environmental law.
Since March 2023, she has been acting as regional manager at the Territorial Mesoamerican Fund, which is an alternative financial mechanism that serves as a “vehicle” to facilitate territorial investment, designed by the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests to benefit Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and local communities in areas of natural and cultural heritage importance in Mesoamerica.