Lilian Painter

Lilian Painter completed her Ph.D. in Liverpool University, United Kingdom in Behavioural Ecology, before starting work in the Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape. She is now Director of the Bolivia country program. She has led the development of management plans over 2,300,000 hectares of protected areas in the landscape and promoted alliances to support conservation with a wide array of organizations from Indigenous and peasant organizations, to local, regional and national state and private entities. She has been awarded a prize by the protected area service of Bolivia as the most important contribution to the protected area service from civil society.