Team Profile
Bibiana Bilbao
Bibiana Bilbao, Professor at Environmental Studies, Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela, is a fire ethnoecologist with 25 years of teaching, researching, and capacity-building experience. She has promoted the integration of Indigenous, technical, and scientific knowledge into fire management policies in Venezuela and other Latin-American countries, fostering Indigenous and local communities' cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation. Bibiana was a recipient of a Europe Award 2010 Innovation for Sustainable Development and a National Award 2013 for Best Scientific Work and Innovation. She is also a COBRA Collective (CIC), UK member, Co-founder of the South American Participatory and Intercultural Fire Management Network, and an Advisory Board member of the International Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, UK. Recently, Bibiana obtained the "Scientifique Invite" position at the 2022-2023 Programme at Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK'IT), Montpellier University, France.