Katherina Bach

Founder of the Generation RE Movement and the "Magenta Cycle" business model. International speaker for children and young people about how to believe in their dreams and strengths to become agents of change for a sustainable world.

 

Founder and CEO of KB Edutainment. Colombian pioneer in the field of climate change. Former chief negotiator for the Colombian Government of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2006). Former advisor to business leaders on Voluntary Carbon Emissions markets. Katherina led for the Colombian Government the legal, ecological, social, financial analysis and negotiations with JP Morgan in 2006, considered one of the most ambitious environmental projects in Colombia (the expansion of "Las Gaviotas").

 

Consultant in strategy design of socio-environment projects based on equity financing and invited by President Jacques Chirac to the conference "Citizens of the World" (February 2007). She introduced the innovative sustainable
development project "Las Gaviotas" to HM, the King of Sweden, in 2007. Former international advisor on the design of large-scale climate change projects in Tokio, including its financial engineering.

Senior advisor to the Minister of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development of the Republic of Colombia (2006-2007) on Carbon Markets and Climate Change. Former advisor for more than ten years to the ZERI Foundation on Blue Economy Projects and Initiatives globally. Creative Director - ZERI Learning Initiative. Awarded as one of the most influential Colombians globally by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and PROEXPORT (Marca Colombia) (2011).

International Artist and Illustrator of Children's Books. She has been part of the ZERI Learning Initiative leading team for Gunter's Fables. Her illustrations translate Gunter's Fables' complex science and environmental language into understandable concepts for adults and children. Gunter's Fables (by Gunter Pauli and illustrated by Katherina) won the Chinese Government and the Alibaba Foundation Award as the best series of Books for Nature Education in China (Nov. 2019).

She is an entrepreneur and Ecological Toys designer. Katherina is also a Certified Snake Handler by the Cape Town Reptile Institute (2011), an adventurer and Interspecies Communication Student from Anna Breytenbach (2013). She has lived in Colombia, United States, Japan, Europe and South Africa and has been traveling around the world advising projects based on sustainability, giving lectures and inspiring children and people about the possibility to change the world.

Katherina leads the Initiative "Intergenerational Continuity: How women can change the world" by introducing scientific, environmental, and philosophical analysis of how women can influence small children and young people to become future leaders and entrepreneurs to build a better place to live.

More than ten times, she has been invited to visit China by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Centre for Environmental Education CEE to give lectures and make art activities to inspire children and adults through her vision of art and sustainability.