Indira is a career professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). She holds a PhD in Law from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. During her PhD, she expanded her academic horizons as a Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC) at the Department of Political Science at Princeton University in the United States. In the consultancy realm, Indira has served as an advisor to prominent organizations such as the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the World Bank. Indira’s expertise lies in public law, democratic theory and democratic innovation, and the political legitimacy of global governance. Her expertise encompasses the planning, execution, and facilitation of participatory processes within both public and private sectors. Indira’s commitment to innovation is underscored by her studies in Design Thinking at Harvard Extension School and her certification as a Facilitator in Symphony Methodology through the FortalEsDer Project by GIZ-Denkmodell in Berlin, Germany. In the field of democratic innovation, she is the founder of Ideemos (Colombia) and has participated in several projects for the design and implementation of deliberative mini-publics. Among them, the coordination of the cluster of Spanish speakers in the Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Crisis, the co-design of the Youth Citizen Assembly in Colombia, and the design of Citizen Climate Assemblies in Latin America (Resurgentes Project). Her passion for democratic innovation is rooted in a deep quest to understand its global expansion and operational dynamics. This quest has led her to actively participate in the New Frontiers of Deliberative Democracy project, a collaboration between Ideemos and Democracy R&D.
