Profile
Ana Elia joined the School of Geography and the Environment in December 2024. She holds a PhD in Social Networks, Gender and Community-Based Natural Resources Management from the University of British Columbia (UBC), an MSc in Forests and Society (UBC), BA in Forest Engineering (UdL-Lleida) and a BA in Technical Agriculture Engineering (UPC-Barcelona).
Ana Elia’s role involves day-to-day management of the Programme by providing support to team members; liaising with international partners and funders on administrative, organizational, and financial matters; facilitating workshops and meetings; and supporting the Programme Leader on strategic development.
Prior to working at TABLE, Ana Elia was Co-Director of CEHDA, a Catalan-Ghanaian organization that works for migrant justice from a socio-ecological perspective.
Ana Elia is interested in feminist political ecology as well as in singing, as a vehicle for interculturality and ethnoecology. Ana Elia also takes interest in the mobilization of social networks (non-virtual) as a tool to achieve collective changes that improve our relationships with the environment and with our societies on a glocal scale.
Previously, she worked as Programme Manager in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and in the Dean’s office of the same faculty.
In parallel, Ana Elia works as an independent Organizational Development consultant specialized in social network analyses, effective collaboration, equity and inclusion.