Paulina Belbey

Paulina joined Climate & Company in October 2026 as an Research Associate, supporting research on EUDR implementation, from policy and legal analysis to the role of smallholders
and local communities in deforestation-free supply chains. She is completing an MSc in Environmental Governance at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg as a KAAD scholar, focusing her Master’s thesis on a normative comparison between the EUDR and Argentina’s native forest protection regime. During her Master’s studies, she also attended the EMMA4EU Erasmus+ specialization school on deforestation-free supply chains in Padua, Italy. Paulina holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Universidad Católica de Santa Fe (Argentina), where she contributes to the Socio-Eco-Legal research team on several projects such as the DAAD-CONICET initiative on EUDR implementation. Her core interests include deforestation-free supply chains, regulatory coherence, and EU–Mercosur sustainability policy. She works in Spanish and English and is currently learning German. Outside work, she is passionate about languages and travelling. In her free time, she loves swimming, singing, spending time with loved ones, and enjoys gothic and modernist short stories in a reading club.

Linkedin: Paulina Guadalupe Belbey