Ana Paula López Minchán holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Environment and an MSc in Water Resources Management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She has over seven years of experience in interdisciplinary research across academic institutions, think tanks, NGOs, and innovation labs, focusing on socio-environmental justice and extractive industries in Latin America. She is currently a doctoral researcher in the International Doctoral Programme on Business and Human Rights at FAU, affiliated with the Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability.

Her doctoral research examines how formal and informal governance arrangements shape mineral traceability in Peru within global supply chains, with particular attention to the translation into practice of human rights due diligence frameworks and their implications for both large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining. Her work brings grounded, community-based perspectives into policy debates on fostering dignified lives in mining territories.