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Julian Portilla

Senior Mediator and Program Director

About Julian Portilla

Julian Portilla is a Senior Mediator and Program Director at Meridian Institute. He has designed and facilitated complex, multistakeholder, consensus-building processes on issues as diverse as multilateral processes at the UN, Development Finance Institutions dialogue with affected communities, fisheries management, national park management, and international peace, conflict, and development. He has worked throughout Latin America — focusing primarily in Mexico, Haiti, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Columbia — as well as in the United States.

Julian’s current work at Meridian is primarily with the Digital Sequence Information (DSI) team. The DSI team supports parties, stakeholders and rightsholders at the Convention on Biological Diversity to identify areas of convergence and divergence on fair and equitable benefit sharing arrangements from the use of Genetic Sequence Data.

Julian lives in Vermont where he spends a lot of time mountain biking and skiing with his wife and three boys. On occasion, you might find him strumming a guitar around a campfire.