Coordinator of LandMark
Sara Olga Ines Ramirez Gomez joined the International Land Coalition in June 2025 as Coordinator of LandMark, the global platform that provides critical data on Indigenous and community lands to support securing and protecting land rights worldwide. She is an environmental management professional with a PhD in Geography from Utrecht University, specialized in participatory mapping. Throughout her career, Sara has worked closely with Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, and local groups, particularly in South America, focusing on co-production of knowledge around land rights, territorial governance, and ecosystem protection. Her research and co-authorship on the Saamaka case were pivotal to the Greenest Country in the World? report published in 2024 by ILC. Before joining ILC, Sara worked at Tropenbos International, where she led the development of the network’s youth agenda in South America (Youth it or Lose it). Originally from Colombia, she is now based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where she lives with her child.