Leonellha Barreto-Dillon
Project Manager
Leonellha Barreto-Dillon graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the “Simón Bolivar University” in Caracas-Venezuela, her homeland. During her studies in Environmental Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology she became acquainted with wastewater technologies and ecosan.
She gathered further knowledge and experiences when she worked as Project Developer and Project Manager, for instance at the TTZ Bremerhaven. For more than five years, she was successfully involved in the development of projects and writing of proposals for the European Commission’s Funding Programmes. She developed and coordinated cooperation projects to promote the implementation of sustainable sanitation in West Africa (NETSSAF, EU-FP6 Project) and India (ECONAN-CAPACITY, EuropeAid) as well as a coordination action in agro-forestry for arid, semi-arid and sub-humid regions in Latin America (WAFLA, EU-INCO-FP6 Project).
As project engineer in Pune, India, she supports the Ecosan Services Foundation (ESF) in the development of the „Special Projects Unit“, whose goal is the implementation of commercial projects in the field of ecosan for private clients in India. She acts as a lecturer in the Ecological Sanitation training courses in India, and designs and writes project proposals.
Singing, playing guitar, German and Spanish cinema, Latin American literature and Backpacking trips around the world are her favourite hobbies.
Fields of activity
> Closed-loop recycling and resources management
> Development cooperation
