Andrea San Gil León (She/Her) Email & Phone Number

The Global Network for Popular Transportation (previously the Global Partnership for Informal Transportation) brings key actors together to change the narrative surrounding popular (a.k.a informal) transportation, highlight its role in providing millions of people with access to opportunities, and transform the way is approached by governments and decision.

As part of the Agile City Partners co-founding team, my role consisted in exploring potential partnerships, supporting and facilitating strategic planning, organizing and serving as panelist for webinars or other communication spaces on this topic, developing funding proposals, leading projects such as the Encyclopedia of Informal Transport in Central.

- Articulate with local and international partners to fund, build and implement projects.- Support the strategic articulation and definition of projects and initiatives regarding sustainable transport, planning, inclusion, biodiversity and climate action in cities

• Knowledge and learning content curator and facilitator: - Project Manager in team creating a Gender-Focused Climate Action Planning Training Module for C40. - Content curator and facilitator for module on Urban.
• Part of the consulting team developing a GEF Proposal for UNEP on Accelerating the Transition towards Electric Mobility in Public Transport (successfully funding and under implementation)
• Lead in the development of an Encyclopedia of Informal Transportation for Central America and a Datathon on Informal Transportation, in partnership with the Global Partnership for Informal Transportation
• Lead in the Baseline Data Collection for Integrated Urban Development and Transport Oriented Development indicators for 15 local governments in Costa Rica's Great Metropolitan Area

Agile City Partners is a consulting firm aiming to bring the agile mindset to the cities we serve. This means putting people first in their planning and design, designing spaces, services and urban systems that work, collaborating with different urban stakeholders, and effectively responding to change through innovation and co-creation.Our first initiative.

Through the Center for Urban Sustainability, I was in charge of desigining and now facilitating a Masters level course on Urban Sustainability. This module touches on topics such as international frameworks and concepts related to urban sustainability, how urban design and planning can result in more sustainable or unsustainable cities, principles for.

The SLOCAT Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report tells the global and regional stories ofwhere we are and where we need to get to urgently on climate action in the transport sector. Engaging awide community of world-class experts and organisations, it is a one-stop shop for the latest availabledata, targets and developments on transport demand.

Project: Pricing of transport network companies (TNCs) for sustainability and social inclusionI worked with the IADB and UCL in conducting research about how app based collective transport services are working in LATAM, what their business models are, who they are serving, and what their social and environmental impacts or contributions are. This.

Under the framework of a Policy Based Loan by IADB and AFD to the Government of Costa Rica, I was the focal point in charge of supporting the Climate Change Office of the Ministry of the Enviroment in coordinating with 10 different government institutions and providing follow up to a series of climate commitments linked to our National Decarbonization.

- Engage with global cities networks, multilateral agencies, NGO partners, countries and cities to develop, coordinate, and implement strategies, policy tools and partnerships to advance TNC's Build Healthy Cities program priorities, SDG 11, CBD goals and the New Urban Agenda.- Participate in Task Force 3 on Nature Based Urban Solutions as part of the.

- Part of the office's mobility team, overseeing key projects and initiatives such as the Electric Passenger Train and Integrated Bus System.- Articulating multi-level efforts to develop urban planning tools and strategies based on Transport Oriented Development principles along main transport corridors with 15 local governments in the Metropolitan Area..

San Jose, Costa Rica

- Leadership and administrative responsibilities: Strategic planning, grant-writing and identifying partnerships for project implementation, team management, report writing.- Representation in boards and committees such as San José Cómo Vamos (a citizen initiative to monitor urban quality of life indicators) and in 5C (citizen consultation platform for.

Local expert for international team in charge of updating Costa Rica's Carbon Neutrality GHG Reporting Programe for Companies and updating Costa Rica's Carbon Market/Pricing Mechanism (World Bank - PMR Funds) for the Ministry of the Environment

Consultant in the following projects:- Quality Infrastructure Innovation for the Green Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically involved in coordinating the implementation of pilot projects on Air Quality Monitoring and Life Cycle Assessment in countries like Colombia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Brazil.- Researcher for the.

Author of a bi-monthly column about sustainability issues

San José, Costa Rica

- Design, develop, document and finally implement the accreditation service for GHG Validation/Verification Bodies in Costa Rica - Support in developing Costa Rica's C-neutral standard and GHG Program.- WRI GHG Protocol Trainer- Panelist in different activities regarding climate change, sustainability and quality issues.-Coordination of accreditation.

• Carbon Opportunity 2012 project: identifying and prioritizing mitigation and adaptation opportunities in Costa Rica for the year 2012, and presenting findings from the project to relevant institutions, interested.
• Coordinating of the Sustainable Resolutions for 2013 project: promoting people to make New Year resolutions to become more sustainable.
• Climate Change Law for Costa Rica project: developing a Climate Change Law proposal for Costa Rica.

• Support maintenance of the Environmental Management System
• Training and capacity building for personnel
• On-site environmental diagnosis and internal auditing

Master'S Degree, Sustainability, Planning And Environmental Policy

Chevening Scholar. Merit Dissertation on How to Accelerate a Transition Towards Urban Sustainability in Costa Rica’s Great Metropolitan.

Diploma Of Education, Public Policy Design

Online Diploma course by Whetu.org and Laboratorio de Innovación Pública de la Universidad Austral

Licentiate Degree, Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Boardmember and founder of the Environmental Engineering Student Union