Isabelle Providoli

Dr. Isabelle Providoli is a geographer and environmental scientist working as a Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern. She is specialised in natural resource management and governance (sustainable land management (SLM), Integrated Watershed Management (IWM)), and is coordinating several implementation and research projects in Asia and Africa. She has extensive working experience at the science-policy-society interface related to natural resource management and governance in general, also linking with the three UN conventions (UNFCCC, CBD, UNCCD), the Sendai Framework, and the SDGs. She engages in transformative research, social learning, and co-production of knowledge, and facilitates knowledge management and knowledge exchanges between heterogeneous actors at all levels. She has experience in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) oriented teaching approaches, capacity building, knowledge sharing and networking. She coordinated the global network for sustainable land management WOCAT, www.wocat.org, and joined the Global Land Programme, https://glp.earth/ International Project Office to work on the Science-Policy-Society interface.