Lena Estrada
Lena Estrada | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development | |
| Assumed office March 3, 2025 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Susana Muhamad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lena Yanina Estrada Añozaki La Chorrera, Amazonas, Colombia |
| Political party | Alternative Indigenous and Social Movement (2015-present) |
| Other political affiliations | Historic Pact for Colombia (2020-present) |
| Alma mater | |
Lena Yanina Estrada Añokazi (c. 1982) is a Colombian political scientist, environmentalist, and Indigenous leader who served as Director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2024 to 2025 and currently serves as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development since March 3, 2025.
Born in La Chorrera, Amazonas, Estrada is the first woman of Indigenous descent to serve as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development. She studied political science at the National University of Colombia and later environmental sustainability at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.