Ms. Elenita Daño
Co-Executive Director of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group)
Ms. Elenita “Neth” Daño is Co-Executive Director of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), which is an international civil society organization that monitors the impacts of new and emerging technologies on marginalized communities, tracks corporate concentration and governance in food and agriculture, and investigates erosion of biodiversity. She is a researcher who has done in-depth analysis and published work on various issues in agriculture, plant genetic resources, new technologies and climate change in developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. She represented environmental non-governmental organizations in the Advisory Board to the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), the operational arm of the Technology Mechanism of the UNFCCC, and in global environmental governance discussions at UN Environment. She was appointed for a two-year term (2016-2017) by the UN Secretary-General in the 10-Member Group that supports the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) and was a member of the Advisory Group of the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative (C2G2).