Klever Descarpontriez

MA Environment, Development and Peace with a focus on Climate Change Policy , University for Peace

BA Human Ecology, University of the Atlantic

Klever is a human ecologist who wants to contribute to the construction of a better, more just and equitable world. He’s particularly passionate about issues of gender, climate change, politics, social justice, and the eradication of inequities. A passion for exploring and learning brought him to over 37 countries around the globe as a student and backpacker. He’s a bit of Bolivia and any other country he’s ever gotten to call home. He considers himself to be a citizen of the world with a global perspective that emanates from having lived in three different countries in multi-diverse cultural environments. He was born and raised in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, then, as a teen, he decided to broaden his horizons by finishing high school in Costa Rica, where he was introduced to the idea of education as the most powerful tool to unite people, nations, and cultures for a peaceful and sustainable future. He went on to finish college on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. Then, he went back to Costa Rica for a gap year, which ended up becoming two years because he decided to do a master’s program there on Environment, Development, and Peace studies with a focus on international climate change politics.

In mid-2018 he “returned” home after 8 years of studying abroad, and has been living and working in Bolivia since then.