Team
Founder & CEO
Senior Adviser
Senior Adviser
Senior Adviser
Senior Adviser
Trainee Engineer in Sust. Development
Programme Manager - Multilateral Affairs and Strategic Partnerships
Trainee
Sustainability Data Science Trainee
Environmental Management Trainee
Associate - Transport and Mobility
Project Manager
STEWARDSHIP Board
Senior Adviser
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Salvatore Coppola-Finegan is one of the co-founders of EcoCitizen. A Senior Advisor in Environment and Climate, his career bridges scientific research, public policy, and strategic advisory. He previously served as Chief Special Advisor in the Costa Rican National Parliament and on the Board of the Costa Rican National Conservation System. He routinely provides strategic and diplomatic advisory at major UN conferences spanning Climate Change, Biodiversity, Oceans, and Plastics. He works in six languages.
He holds an MSc in Planetary Health, an MSc in Geography and Spatial Planning, and further postgraduate study in Environmental Sciences and Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development. He is a Research Affiliate of IERN, Campion Hall, University of Oxford; and a certified expert in Environmental and Social Sustainability Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. His work focuses on environment and climate governance, securing a socially and ecologically prosperous future, and advising governments on climate finance, NDCs, NBSAPs, and adaptation.
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Jacek Stankiewicz has over 20 years of international R&D experience. A former Marie Curie Fellow, he holds a BSc in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, alongside an MSc and PhD in Geology focusing on freshwater supplies. His academic and field expertise spans mathematical and geophysical dataset modelling, systems resilience, and early warning systems.
Throughout his career across Germany, the USA, South Africa, Central Asia, and Luxembourg, Jacek has delivered applied research projects in both the public and private sectors. He has extensive experience designing technical architecture for data collection and environmental modelling, integrating diverse datasets, including citizen science campaigns, into comprehensive digital platforms. With over 35 scientific publications, including in the journal Science, Jacek is also an expert in MATLAB, Python, and GIS.
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Magdalena Cordero was Director of Information and Innovation at the European Court of Auditors from 2008 to 2023. Earlier in her career, she worked as a data scientist at the Spanish National Statistical Institute and served as Director of the Data Bank at the Centre for Sociological Research. Her path in information technology developed in Luxembourg, where she worked for Cargolux, before joining the European Commission in 2004.
A mathematician by training, she was a Fulbright Fellow conducting research at the U.S. Census Bureau and later a Senior Fellow at the European University Institute.
Her work focuses on innovation, digital transformation, and building trust in data and algorithms. She actively promotes women in STEM through WeSTEM+ in Luxembourg and as President of ASEDECIA in Spain.
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Julio Calvo Alvarado is the first Emeritus Professor of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR). An expert in natural resources management and conservation, his career combines academic leadership, scientific research, and institutional governance. He previously served two terms as President of the ITCR and three terms as Chairman of its School of Forestry Engineering. Earlier in his career, he directed the Tropical Science Center (Centro Científico Tropical) in Costa Rica.
He holds a PhD in Natural Resources Management from North Carolina State University, where he was a Fulbright-LASPAU scholar, alongside an MSc in Forest Hydrology and Silviculture from SUNY Syracuse. His extensive scientific work focuses on watershed forest hydrology, tropical soils, forest ecology, and ecosystem restoration across Mesoamerica. A Member of the Costa Rican National Academy of Sciences, he has authored nearly 180 scientific publications and was decorated as a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Government.
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Jacek Stankiewicz has over 20 years of international R&D experience. A former Marie Curie Fellow, he holds a BSc in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, alongside an MSc and PhD in Geology focusing on freshwater supplies. His academic and field expertise spans mathematical and geophysical dataset modelling, systems resilience, and early warning systems.
Throughout his career across Germany, the USA, South Africa, Central Asia, and Luxembourg, Jacek has delivered applied research projects in both the public and private sectors. He has extensive experience designing technical architecture for data collection and environmental modelling, integrating diverse datasets, including citizen science campaigns, into comprehensive digital platforms. With over 35 scientific publications, including in the journal Science, Jacek is also an expert in MATLAB, Python, and GIS.
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