Ms. Villoria is a Geophysics Engineer from the Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela, and holds a joint MSc. in Water and Coastal Management from the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain, and the Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. She also has a postgraduate degree in Communication and European Affairs from the Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales, Belgium. |
Ms. Villoria has experience in various EU-funded environmental projects and EC policies in the fields of biodiversity and nature conservation, climate change, coastal management and forest governance. She has worked and studied in Venezuela, Sweden, Chile, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
Before joining STELLA, Ms. Villoria worked at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Regional Office for Pan-Europe, Forests and the European Union Resource Network (FERN), Sea Alarm Foundation and was a trainee in the Environment Unit of the EuropeAid Co-operation Office of the European Commission. In Chile, she developed Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activities in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For her Masters studies, a joint programme between Universidade do Algarve, Portugal; Universidad de Cadiz, Spain; Bergen University, Norway; and Plymouth University, UK, the European Commission awarded Ms. Villoria an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Her Masters thesis reports on the sediment quality of a coastal area in Venezuela. During her post-graduate studies in Belgium, she studied how to improve the communication within IUCN. |
