Daniela García Aguirre

Daniela García Aguirre is Colombian and Coordinator of the Air Quality Area in AIDA's Human Rights and Environment Program, working from Bogotá. She is an environmental engineer (B.Sc.) and lawyer (LL.B.) from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and holds a Master's degree in Environmental Law and Public Policy (LL.M.) from Stanford University, California, USA. She is a former Deputy Director of Air, Hearing and Visual Quality at the District Secretariat of Environment of Bogotá. Daniela has significant experience in air quality monitoring and in the development of environmental public policies from an environmental justice perspective. She has also developed an important academic work advising communities in the construction of strategic litigation to guarantee the rights to health and a healthy environment.