Lidia Cano Pecharroman

Lidia Cano Pecharroman is a PhD Candidate at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning specializing on Environmental Policy Planning for extreme climate events. She is also an attorney and policy analyst with a focus on climate policy and resilience, and natural resources management for security and conflict prevention. Lidia has published work on resilience, climate adaptation, water security and management policy, human rights and environmental governance.

Previously Lidia was a Legal and Policy Advisor at Climate, Law and Policy, an independent advisory organisation that helps design, implement and sustain advances in environmental governance, she was also consultant and researcher providing research and analysis to governments, international organizations and the private sector. Along those lines, she collaborated as an attorney and researcher with the UC Berkeley Center for the Law, Energy and Environment, Radon Law Offices, LSE and the Natural Resources and Governance Institute, but her research has also served different UN agencies and governments. Previously she was a Fulbright Scholar and Research Fellow for the Columbia University Women, Peace and Security program working on the nexus between gender, security and natural resources exploitation.She has also worked on the design of conflict prevention strategies for the mining sector and on land allocation processes in Latin America, and on a solar energy venture in Pakistan. Before her masters at Columbia University her work focused on Nature Rights and environmental conflicts at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Division for Sustainable Development, and previously collaborated in the monitoring peacekeeping missions at the UN Operations and Crisis Center.

Lidia holds an MIA from Columbia University with a concentration on Energy and Natural Resources Management and a specialization on International Conflict Resolution, and a Masters on International Affairs and African Studies by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid with a visiting scholarship to New York University. She holds a Law Degree by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and is a member of the Madrid Bar Association.