Biography
Kirtana Chandrasekaran is an International Program Coordinator on climate justice at Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest environmental justice federation uniting 73 national and over 5 000 community groups. She has spent over a decade fighting for environmental justice with a focus on critical minerals, energy transition, corporate power, UNFCCC negotiations, food sovereignty, agroecology, land rights, fighting corporate power and the global governance of food systems.
Chandrasekaran’s recent work has included examining the intersections between climate, land, food and biodiversity policies. She works in close coordination and solidarity with global movements of peasants, family farmers, landless people, fisher folks, indigenous peoples and rural workers organisations.