Julia Forlani

Background

About Julia Forlani

Julia Forlani has over twenty years of experience working with civil society organizations regarding national, regional, and global policies. She earned an international relations diploma and a master's degree in Global Politics from Durham University (England). Julia aims to support civil society organizations and international organizations in empowering citizens to actively participate in government decision-making and policy-making to tackle this century's inequality and climate challenges. In 2001, she co-founded ISPIS (Synchronicity Institute for Social Interaction), a youth-led organization focused on education for sustainability. Working for Ashoka for five years, she supported two global program consolidations in Brazil: the Youth Venture, an initiative to promote youth entrepreneurship, and Changemakers, a platform to stimulate social innovations in reaching scale. At the family fund Humanitas360 Institute, Julia worked as a project manager and led the Latin American Platform on Drugs Policy. As a consultant to UNDP, she implemented the SDG Philanthropy Platform program to catalyze the voices and participation of institutes and foundations in localizing the 2030 Agenda in Brazil. As the networks and programs coordinator for the Wings team, Julia managed members' engagement and organized high-level philanthropic events on the margins of the UN General Assembly. Julia led the institutional development of a human rights initiative as the executive coordinator of Rede Liberdade, a network to promote civil society collective litigation activities. In her current role as strategic partnership manager at Instituto Amazonia+21, she is thriving a blended finance structure catalyzing impact business, projects, and initiatives in the Brazilian Legal Amazon.