Tania Risco Ruiz

Peru

Environmental Change and Management (MSc)
St Peter's College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann

After receiving her BA in Sociology, Tania worked on a USAID economic development project with former coca leaf farmers in the central Amazon region of Peru. Thereafter, she supported Environmental and Social Impact assessments of oil-spills in the Loreto region for the consultancy firm ERM. Before her studies at Oxford, she worked at the Peruvian Ombudsman Office on the Indigenous People’s Programme and then joined the team of the Mining and Agriculture Project at the International Finance Corporation. During her studies at Oxford, she was an observer at the United Nations Conference in Climate Change (COP25 Chile-Madrid) in December 2019.

After completing her degree at Oxford, she interned at the Louis Dreyfus Foundation, working on food security and family farming projects in Argentina. Tania is committed to working on Climate change adaptation plans for developing countries and supporting the implementation of climate funds at the local level.

“While working as a Research Intern at the Louis Dreyfus Foundation, I contributed to mapping the institutional landscape on agriculture and climate change policies in Argentina. Similarly, I helped build a network of social change agents to join the efforts undertaken by the Foundation. The networking skills gained at the WHT leadership Programme and the research tools obtained while pursuing my MSc in Environmental Change and Management were the foundations for a successful contribution to the mission of the Louis Dreyfus Foundation in Latin America: Improve income sources for small scale farmers, connecting institutional efforts for sustainable and climate-resilient development.”