IRENE DIEZ RUIZ

Environmentalist by training, her career has been focused on project management. She was linked to environmental education, governance, investigation and rural development while she worked for Salamanca University, administration and third sector institutions. For more than 5 years she was involved with consultancy area, particularly in the field of Corporate Responsibility.

Currently she is the General Manager at ECOALF Foundation where she coordinates Upcyling the Oceans, a revolutionary circular economy project whose main objective is to recover the trash that is destroying the sea and transform it into top quality yarn to produce textile products.