Luciana Zedda has been a member of ibn since December 2013 and on the ibn-board since 2017.

She has been working on the topic of biodiversity for over 25 years. Her activities focus on biodiversity research (monitoring, research and elaboration of data and information, publication of studies, etc.) as well as on biodiversity communication and education, for example knowledge transfer to policy and society, and planing and organization of participation processes.

Within the ibn network, Luciana Zedda has worked on many projects, including projects on the development of the new German National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS 2030), on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS), on biodiversity conservation in Germany, and on supporting biodiversity in urban green areas.

Luciana Zedda studied Agricultural Sciences in Italy and obtained her PhD in Natural Sciences at the TU Berlin (Institute of Ecology) in 2000. Her PhD studies were conducted in collaboration with the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin and supported by a scholarship from Italy. As a postdoc (2000-2009), she worked at the University of Bayreuth (Chair of Plant Systematics, Mycology) within the BIOTA-Africa project. During that period, gained further experience in data and information management, knowledge transfer and environmental education. From 2010 to 2011 she worked at ZB MED - Information Center Life Sciences - as project manager of the virtual subject library GREENPILOT (currently Livivo) and as technical translator for the thesaurus AGROVOC of FAO. For several years she worked as a private lecturer at universities in Italy, Germany and South Africa.

She is currently a freelance biodiversity specialist in Germany and internationally and is owner of the company BiodiversityProjects.