Dr. Ana Frelih-Larsen is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, where she coordinates activities on agriculture and soils. Since joining Ecologic Institute in 2008, she has worked extensively on the evaluation and development of policy instruments for soil health, carbon farming, and more broadly mitigation and adaptation in agriculture. Her work in particular focuses on policies that support the implementation of nature-based solutions in agriculture. A native of Slovenia and fluent in German and English, she has a strong geographic interest in Central Eastern Europe.

Currently, she leads a project on Capacity Building for Ambitious Climate Action in the Agri-food Sector in Central Eastern Europe, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. She also leads work on transition pathways towards reduced reliance on synthetic pesticides in the H2020 project SPRINT. In the past, she was involved in various projects for European and German institutions on the Common Agricultural Policy, carbon farming, and soil management. She has led projects for DG FISMA (Development of agriculture screening criteria for the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy), DG Climate Action (Mainstreaming climate action in rural development programmes), and DG Environment (Inventory of soil policy instruments). She has also contributed to several research projects, including CIRCASA (Coordination of International Research Cooperation on soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture), RECARE (Preventing and remediation degradation of soils in Europe), SmartSOIL (Sustainable and Climate Friendly Soil Management), and Soil3 (Sustainable Subsoil Management).