Evelyn Nava-Fischer

PhD title

The role of Knowledge Transfer in the Regulation of Biosecurity (in which she has a particular interest on the implications for biosecurity of the Biodiversity and EU-Trade regulations with developing countries).

Career Experience and Qualifications

Evelyn Nava has been research associate and technical adviser for international organizations. Her research projects have involved, among others, the political economy of knowledge transfer and innovation systems; and her technical expertise, the multilateral and European technical cooperation in trade, green technologies and industrial development for Latin America. Evelyn was research associate at the social and human sciences department of UNESCO in Paris, contributing with socio-economic research to the integrative (public policy, rural planning and legal) working group to improve knowledges’ transfer and research governance in developing countries. In this organisation, additionally, she familiarized with the work of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and on the implications of Bioethics for the developing world.

At the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), she prepared, among others, the training proposals on Technical Barriers to Trade (Biosafety Standards, Intellectual Propery Rights and Competition) and socio-technical partnerships for EuropAid, and on the green technologies markets of the World Bank in Asia and Latin America. In Brussels, she assisted in the preparation of the Bilateral Civil Society Summit Europe-Latin America (ed. Mexico 2004) and was trained in the REX working groups on Trade (with the EU DG-Trade) and the European Enlargement at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC/ECOSOC). In Mexico, Evelyn was a business manager of the Private Sector Umbrella Council (CCE) in the northern state of Durango.

She graduated in Economics in Mexico at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and the INSEEC in Paris; and post-graduated in Institutional Economics and Geography at La Sorbonne in Paris. She has been fellow of the French Government, the German Bucerius School of Die Zeit foundation, and holds the Richard Whipp Grant for cross-disciplinary research at Cardiff University.

In addition to her thesis, she is working in the research project of Biosecurity and Risk Management of BRASS, which include two research proposals on the European regulation of Functional Food and Risk Management, and in CSR of Biotechnologies.

Research Interests

• Biosecurity/Biosafety Regulation & Trade
• Risk Communication/Management & Knowledge Transfer
• Health, Life Sciences and Technology Networks
• Applied Philosophy, Accountability and CSR of Biotechnologies

Publications

• Nava R. Evelyn. "Coordination, Connaissance et Intégration Economique: l’organisation civile dans l’axe Texas-Mexico" in Construire des gouvernances: entre citoyens, décideurs et scientifiques.: Editions P.I.E. - Peter Lang and UNESCO, 2005, p. 255-280, Brussels. ISBN: 905201292X.
• Nava R. Evelyn "Sistemas de Investigación y Conocimiento local: participación socio-productiva para la integración económica. Working Docs, Governance, Research and Policy WG, UNESCO/SRP/MOST 2004, Paris.
• Nava R. Evelyn and Rascón C. Cristina. "Estado de Emergencia: la píldora del siguiente día y las políticas de género en México, Milenio, Newspaper, Feb. 2004, Mexico.
• Nava R. Evelyn "De la Science aux Décisions Politiques : une analyse comparative des référéntiels institutionels et d’action collective Mexique-Etats-Unis-Europe", Unpublished Working Docs, Governance, Research and Policy WG, UNESCO/SRP/MOST 2002, Paris.

Reports

• Nava Evelyn. "Facilitation of the Free Trade Agreement between Europe and Mexico: Technical Assistance and institutional capacity building –eight core issues for sustainable cooperation", German Technical Cooperation, International Services, Technical Proposal for EuropAid , GTZ, March 2005. 55 pgs.
• Nava Evelyn. "Incidencia Pública y Diálogo de la Sociedad Civil Organizada en México y la India: Estrategias Corporativas, Mercado Laboral y Capital Social" Reporte Interno REX, Comité Económico y Social Europeo, EESC/ECOSOC, 2004, 27 pgs.
  

Conference Contribution

• Nava-Fischer Evelyn. "Time, Animal Biosecurity and Knowledge Transfer", [Forthcoming Paper], accepted at the Tasmania Animals and Society Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania. Old Woolstore, Hobart, Tasmania (July 3-6, 2007).
• Nava-Fischer Evelyn. "Rural Risk-scapes of Biosecurity, which lessons for Avian Flu?" [Forthcoming Paper], accepted at the XXIInd Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (August 20-24, 2007)
• Nava R. Evelyn "Uses of knowledge in social policy-making in Mexico", Research proposal for the International Conference on Social Sciences and Governance, UNESCO, MOST and the Harvard School of Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands (March 20-21, 2000) http://www.unesco.org/most/weiss.htm, http://www.unesco.org/most/scspconf.htm