A lawyer by education, Carolina has over 20 years’ experience managing projects in the field of coastal management, planning and policy-development. Previously a project coordinator at the Coastal & Marine Union in the Netherlands, in 2003 she moved to Barcelona where they opened their regional office. While in Barcelona, she began cooperating with MedCities and eventually joined the MedCities team in 2017 as project officer focusing on their eastern Mediterranean activities. Her main areas of interest are related to sustainable socio-economic development, participatory processes, climate change adaptation, waste reduction and management and marine litter.