Dr Oscar Ferero
Key information
- Roles
- Assessor Direction of Research Agrosavia, Colombia
- Qualifications
- BA in International Business (UJTL, Colombia); BS in Anthropology (National University, Colombia); MSc in Ecosystems Analysis and Governance (Warwick); PhD ‘A political ecology of Northwest Amazonia’ from Imperial College-London.
- Email address
- of1@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Oscar A. Forero has a BA in International Business (UJTL, Colombia), a BS in Anthropology (National University, Colombia), an MSc in Ecosystems Analysis and Governance (Warwick) and a PhD ‘A political ecology of Northwest Amazonia’ from Imperial College-London. He has worked with governmental and NGOs in Latin-American (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Chile) advising policy development in the areas of natural resources management, sustainable development and in the implementation of peasant and indigenous peoples’ rights. He has also developed collaborations and lectured in the Asian-Pacific region (Sri Lanka, Hong-Kon, China, Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealnd) and has worked for several academic institutions in the UK (Imperial College, King’s College-London, University of Sheffield, Lancaster University).
Research interests
Political Ecology, Sustainability Sciences, Anthropology of Science, Science and Technology Studies of Agrifood, Human Rights of Indigensous Peoples, Resilience and Innovation of the Agrifood sector.