Marina Mansilla Hermann

Biography

Marina supports Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Ms. Christiana Figueres across all her engagements and in the broader global effort to peak greenhouse emissions by 2020. She also leads Mission 2020’s Land Use Milestone.

Previous to these roles, Marina spent eleven years at Ashoka managing its strategy to transform education in Europe, bringing together social innovators, educators, thought leaders and influencers with the ultimate goal of reinventing learning as an experience that enables every child to become a changemaker. During her years at Ashoka Youth Venture, she mentored hundreds of young social innovators and supported the launch of dozens of social ventures globally.

Marina has been involved in the UN Climate Summits (COPs) since 2004, advocating for young people to be recognized as a key stakeholder in the negotiation process. She is also the founder of Fundación TierraVida, an Argentinean-based NGO working to unleash young people´s potential to drive environmental sustainability in Latin America. Through her work with TierraVida, she has been named a British Council Climate Champion (2011), a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum (2013) and a Global Good Fund Fellow (2014).

Earlier in her career, Marina worked for more than a decade with Peace Child International, as a consultant for a GEF/UNDP wetlands conservation project and served as a youth advisor to UNEP (2003-2007).

She has been trained by former vice-president and Nobel Peace Prize Al Gore as part of his Climate Reality Project and currently serves as Faculty of Amani institute’s Social Innovation Management Programme. She holds a BSc. in Environmental Sciences, an MA. in Environment and Development from King's College London and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at ESMT Berlin.