Marina Silva

Marina Silva is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist who served as Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change from 2003 to 2008 and again since 2023. She is the founder and former spokeswoman for the Sustainability Network (REDE). During her political career, Silva served as a senator of the state of Acre, Brazil between 1995 and 2011. She ran for President of Brazil in 2010, 2014 and 2018.

Silva has won several awards from international organisations in recognition of her environmental activism. In 1996, she won the Goldman Environmental Prize for South and Central America. In 2007, the United Nations Environment Programme named her one of the Champions of the Earth. In 2009, she was awarded the Sophie Prize for her contributions to environment and sustainable development. In 2014, she was elected by the British Financial Times newspaper as one of its Women of the Year. In 2010, she was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers for her role in taking the ‘’Green’’ movement mainstream. In 2012, she was one of eight people chosen to carry the flag at the opening ceremony of the London Summer Olympics.

Silva is a member of Washington DC-based think tank, the Inter-American Dialogue.