Lena Estrada
Lena Estrada | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development | |
| In office March 3, 2025 – August 5, 2025 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Susana Muhamad |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Director of Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office May 17, 2024 – March 3, 2025 | |
| President | Gustavo Petro |
| Preceded by | Bertha Patricia Alemán |
| Succeeded by | Ana María Moreno |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lena Yanina Estrada Añozaki 1982 (age 43–44) La Chorrera, Amazonas, Colombia |
| Party | Alternative Indigenous and Social Movement (2015-present) |
| Other political affiliations | Historic Pact for Colombia (2020-present) |
| Alma mater | |
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Lena Yanina Estrada Añokazi (born c. 1982) is a Colombian political scientist, environmentalist, and Indigenous leader who served as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development from March to August 2025 under President Gustavo Petro. She also served as director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Born in La Chorrera, Amazonas, Estrada is the first woman of Indigenous descent to serve as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development. She studied political science at the National University of Colombia and later environmental sustainability at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.