Isabel López Noriega

Isabel López Noriega works as scientist and policy specialist in the research area Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. With more than 20 years of experience, she has designed and coordinated multi-country projects on the conservation and use of crop diversity, involving research and development partners at the local, national and international levels. Her work on research and capacity development has covered, among others, legal and policy issues related to the utilization of genetic resources and the sharing of benefits arising from their use, seed laws and their effects on crop diversity and farmers’ rights, and the use of intellectual property rights in crop breeding. Since 2016, she co-coordinates the policy work of the CGIAR programme on genebanks, working closely with CGIAR genebanks and breeding programmes on policy and legal issues, including representation of CGIAR in international policy making fora.

Isabel holds a law degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), one MA on Environmental Management from the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain) and another MA on International Environmental Law from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, (Spain).