Prof. Mónica Moraes R. is a Bolivian botanist and one of the world’s foremost experts on tropical palms. She studied biology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) in La Paz and obtained her MSc (1989) and PhD (1996) at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). She has been a full Professor at UMSA since 1990 and has been in charge of the palm collection at the National Herbarium of Bolivia since 1984. She has been an author of two IPBES assessments of the United Nations and the Panel of Scientists for the Amazon. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Science (IFS, Stockholm, Sweden) and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS, Trieste, Italy). Prof. Moraes was appointed full member of the Bolivian Academy of Sciences in 2008 and since June 2021 she has the honour of being the first-ever woman to serve as its President. She is also a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Science Advisory Group to UNEPs GEO-7 Assessment (2023-2026), where she also serves as an observer at the Local and Indigenous Knowledge Taskforce.
The IEK-CHANGES project is an ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Union (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) to Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
El proyecto IEK-CHANGES es una beca «Starting Grant» del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) financiada por la Unión Europea (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) y concedida al Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.
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