Rueda, Ximena

Ximena Rueda is Associate Professor at the School of Management at Universidad de Los Andes and Senior Research Fellow from EfD Colombia. She holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University.  

Her research interests are the role of private-driven instruments for sustainability, the impacts of globalization on local ecosystems and rural communities, the relationship between global value chains and land use, and the design and implementation of private-driven mechanisms to advance sustainability in agricultural chains. She is also interested in analyzing global food systems, telecoupling of socio-ecological systems, and adaptation to climate change.