Ms. Clara H. Whyte

Clara H. Whyte has 20 years of experience as an ecological economist and a political scientist specializing in sustainability issues related to biodiversity, environmental conservation and global affairs. She stands out as a social scientist with a strong background in biology, environmental science, agronomy, and food science and technology. She is multilingual and has worked on many grassroots or public policy projects internationally with a primary focus on Canada, Latin America (including the Andes, the Atlantic forest and the Amazon rainforest), and Asia. In all her assignments she demonstrated strong intercultural skills, as well as an ability to deal with a wide variety of stakeholders. She also has very strong academic research skills, including in political philosophy, which she is applying at expanding the concepts of ecological transition and ecological civilization. She is currently the Executive Director of Bioepokas, a non-profit organization aimed at inventing and implementing novel models toward the ecological transition. Bioepokas has a field office in Bolivia, and is planning to open offices in Asia and Africa in the near future.

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