Carol Mora Paniagua is the Director of the Environmental Policy and Governance Program of the Peruvian Society of Environmental Law (SPDA). She has been part of the SPDA team since 2010. She is a lawyer specialized in environmental management and human rights.
Carol is a lawyer who graduated with highest honors from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), has a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Rights from the PUCP, a Master’s Degree in Human Rights from the PUCP and in Law from the Universidad del Rosario of Colombia, with a second specialization in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the PUCP.
Winner of the 2019 Powder Award – On Think Tank in the Sustainable Development category for The Best Research of the Year, entitled “Ensuring an effective inclusion and participation of the population user in the Watershed Water Resources Councils”.
Experienced in natural resource governance, water management and natural infrastructure, certification, compensation and environmental oversight, environmental democracy, prior consultation and extractivism, administrative law and human rights and environment. Author of specialized publications on environmental institutionality and environmental human rights.
As Director of the Environmental Policy and Governance Program, she is currently Director of the Sustainable Well-Being Project (June 2023 – December 2028) and co-leader of the institutional component of the Natural Infrastructure for Water Security Project – Phase II (April 2023 – August 2027).
She has actively participated in key legislative processes in environmental matters in Peru; especially, in the design process of the Law of the National Environmental Certification Service for Sustainable Investments (Law No. 29968), Law that modifies the Law of the National System of Environmental Assessment and Oversight (Law No. 30011), and the Guidelines for the implementation of environmental compensation in the scope of the SEIA (Ministerial Resolution 398-2014-MINAM) and in their respective processes of progressive implementation. Likewise, she has contributed in the promotion of laws and regulations related to public spaces, sustainable cities, natural infrastructure, water governance and participatory environmental democracy.
She has been Professor of Environmental Law at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya and adjunct professor in postgraduate courses in Environmental Law at the PUCP.
Email: cmora@spda.org.pe