Anna Kirilenko appointed as new chairperson of the Global Forest Coalition
25 March 2020
The Global Forest Coalition is happy to welcome Anna Kirilenko as its new chairperson. Anna has served as GFC’s board member for North and Central Asia and Eastern Europe for several years. She is the executive director of GFC’s member group "Ecological Movement BIOM" and is widely recognised as a leading expert in environmental policy and law and a central figure in the environmental and feminist movement in her home country, Kyrgyzstan. She succeeds Diego Cardona, who served as GFC’s chairperson from 2015 to 2019. We sincerely thank Diego for his hard work and dedication to the coalition over the past four years!
GFC’s February 2020 board meeting also saw the formal appointment of Johanna Molina of Colectivo VientoSur in Chile as the new board member representing Latin America and the Caribbean. Johanna was elected at the Latin America and the Caribbean regional member’s meeting that took place in December 2019 in Santiago de Chile. Aside from being an active member of Colectivo VientoSur, Johanna is currently the coordinator of the Chilean chapter of World March of Women.
