Yenny Vega Cárdenas is President of the Montreal-based International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, and a member of the UN network of experts for the Harmony with Nature chapter. She is a member of the Quebec Bar and a lawyer in Colombia, and holds a master's degree in business law and a doctorate in water law. She is the author of La construction sociale du statut juridique de l'eau: le cas du Québec et du Mexique, published by Éditions JFD in 2015.
