Rebeca holds a bachelor’s degree (BA) in Politics and International Relations from Royal Holloway, University of London and a master’s degree (MSc) in African Politics from SOAS, University of London. In 2022, she completed a Master of Advanced Studies in GIScience and Unmanned Systems for Integrated Natural Resource Management, with a major in Green infrastructure and Ecosystem services from the University of Padua.

Before joining CMCC, Rebeca was a bluebook trainee at the EU Commission (Belgium) working in the Directorate-General for the Environment. During her time at the Commission, she worked in the Unit Bilateral and Regional Environmental Cooperation as country desk for Southeast Asia and ASEAN. She previously worked as a Research Consultant at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) (South Africa) focusing on agriculture and nature-based solutions for climate adaptation in urban and peri-urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (Urban Ecolution Programme; Peri Urban Resilient Ecosystems; IFAD multi-country climate risk analysis). In 2020, she joined the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Sweden on the project Enhancing Trust in Government for Effective Water Governance (EnTruGo) – jointly coordinated by SEI HQ, ACDI, Wageningen University (WUR) and The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The objective of her study was to examine how participatory processes in water governance affect Indigenous and marginalised groups and how, in turn, these affect their relationship with the state. Finally, during her studies, Rebeca worked as a human rights researcher at Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) in London,
United Kingdom.

Expertise: Sub-Saharan development; climate adaptation, agriculture, water governance, nature-based solutions, remote sensing and GIS specialist.