Juan Camilo Betancur Jaramillo

Juan Camilo Betancur Jaramillo is a Research Associate within the Sustainable Transitions Team, where they work on gender, environment, and territorial governance. Their work focuses on developing and applying a territorial gender perspective, drawing on feminist geographies, territorial studies, and queer ecologies to connect bodies, place, and governance scales from the local to the regional.

Juan Camilo has experience in applied and participatory research on gender, political participation, and intersectionality, working in collaboration with public institutions and local organisations in Latin America. Their research engages with institutions as well as grassroots and community-based actors, while remaining grounded in critical, reflexive, and community-oriented research practices.

Juan Camilo has academic training in Environmental Management and Human Development, and contributes to interdisciplinary research and advisory processes in the fields of gender equality, environmental governance, and public policy. Their research interests include territorial approaches to gender, intersectionality and political participation, socio-environmental governance, multi-species relations, and relational and critical approaches to environmental and territorial policy.