Mariana Lara Palacios

Guatemalan lawyer and notary with a master in comparative politics and public administration from Kyushu University, Japan and an LLM in energy and environmental law from KU Leuven, Belgium where collaborates with the research group on transitional justice and human rights. She has worked in Belgium as independent consultant, as a volunteer in several NGOs and since 2018 works as policy officer of the international development cooperation office at the Municipality of Herent.