Natalia Balcázar

Natalia Balcázar is foundation director of ENVIRO pro – European Environmental Project Management in Germany. She studied Geological Sciences at the Complutense University in Madrid and made in 1992 her doctoral thesis on “Environmental Management of Siderurgical By-products” at the Alcalá University in Madrid, Spain, in the framework of an ECSC project. After her PhD, she went in 1994 to Germany and stay at the research institute FEhS in Duisburg. She worked afterwards at the Ruhr-University Bochum and at a private environmental consulting in Duisburg. She has participated in many European projects with partners from industry and 2 research, being invited as speaker and organized conferences, workshops, etc. In the last years, she worked on project management in several environmental areas (water management –also with partners from Chile and Brasil-, ECOPROFIT ®, etc.) with main interest also on the sustainability aspects associated to the projects.