Isabel Botero
Researcher
isabel.botero@creer-ihrb.org
A political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with a focus on Public Administration, and a master’s candidate in Rural Dynamics and Globalization at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She has over nine years of professional experience, during which she has addressed issues such as security, human rights, development, and peace in a comprehensive manner through education, research, facilitation, and institutional strengthening.
She currently serves as a researcher at the Regional Center for Responsible Business and Entrepreneurship (CREER), where she has participated in the development of projects aimed at building the capacity of communities, public officials, and the private sector regarding the Business and Human Rights agenda. Similarly, she has been involved in projects related to studying the impacts and effects of business operations on human rights, conducting context and risk analyses, and strengthening human rights due diligence mechanisms in business sectors across various industries. She is a member of Amassuru, the network of women working on security and defense issues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and, in addition, she is a member of the Colombian Association of Style Editors (Correcta).