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Paula Caballero
Paula Caballero is a climate activist. As of April 2023, she serves as the regional managing director for Latin America at The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

Early Life
Paula is the granddaughter of Helena Laverde de Gomez. Paula Caballero studied at Brown University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree. After she graduated from Brown University, she returned to Bogota, Colombia and worked as a researcher at the Center for International Development at Universidad de los Andes. Over the years, she worked a variety of jobs around the world in such places as Bogota, London and New York.

17 Sustainable Development Goals
Paula Caballero conceptualized the 17 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) as goals that would replace the Millennial Development Goals (MDGs). According to Leiva Roesch, "In her opinion, the MDGs did not do enough for environmental sustainability. She first presented them to the United Nations in Solo, Indonesia but they did not go under discussion. The committee reconvened in Rio de Janeiro, but only Guatemala had signed on. An important topic of debate was the whether or not too many goals were included. The SDG proposal almost died at G77, but Indian delegate Vivek Wadekar reminded the summit that the text had already been accepted. For a few years, the text of the goals was further developed through an open working group. In 2015, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the SDGs.

She recounts her experience of trying to push the SDGs to the United Nations in her book, Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals.