Irene Baños Ruiz is a multimedia journalist with a focus on environment and climate change. She is a regular contributor to the environment section of Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcasting service, and is in charge of communications for DW Akademie in Latin America. She is co-author of the book Che cosa è la bioeconomia (Edizioni Ambiente, 2019) and author of Ecoansias (Ariel, 2020).