Author: Miriam Lang

Miriam Lang, Ecuador. Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (former director of RLS Quito office)). Miriam Lang works as an associate professor for Social and Global Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador. She holds a PhD in sociology and a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies from the Free University in Berlin. She collaborates with the Latin American Permanent Working Group on Alternatives to Development and with internationalist, feminist, ecologist and antiracist social movements. The book “Beyond Development – Alternative visions from Latin America” which she co-edited (2013) has been translated into seven languages.