Deborah Delgado Pugley is 2024-2025 Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor at Brown University, an associate professor of sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, a Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven, and a research associate for the Andes Amazon Program at the Field Museum in Chicago. Her research focuses on environmental and climate policies in the tropics, particularly in the Amazon regions of Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil. Delgado-Pugley’s work addresses climate change, Indigenous Peoples’ movements, human rights, natural resource management, conservation, and gender.
Delgado Pugley has contributed to global climate policy discussions for over a decade, participating in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has also worked with Indigenous organizations and supported environmental NGOs and international agencies like the FAO and UNDP.
She is currently writing Panamazonia: Indigenous Peoples and the Political Economy of Climate Change, based on her collaborations with Amazonian organizations. Delgado Pugley holds Ph.D. degrees in International Development from the Catholic University of Louvain and Sociology from EHESS Paris School of Social Sciences.
Biography
Associate Professor Sociology, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
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