Juan Auz is a postdoc researcher for the TransLitigate project at Tilburg University's Law School, where he examines socio-legal aspects of transnational environmental litigation focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Before obtaining his PhD at the Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights in Berlin, he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Juan has worked for years in Ecuador on indigenous peoples' rights in Amazonia as co-founder of Terra Mater and executive director of Fundación Pachamama. He is currently a board director for the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and a legal analyst for several international climate litigation databases, including Columbia’s Sabin Center and NYU’s Climate Litigation Accelerator.
