Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro (born 1948[3]) is an Ecuadorian conservationist of Georgian descent.

[4] After studies in Educational psychology at the University of Quito,[3] she became involved in environmental issues.

[5] In 1993, she was a founder of the Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano[6] (www.ffla.net) and served until 2006 as the executive president of this NGO.

From August 1998 to January 2000, she served as Minister of Environment in the government of Ecuador.

[10] Since 2017, Yolanda is the Chair of an IUCN-led Independent Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, the Rio Doce Panel, created to advise the restoration efforts at the Rio Doce watershed in Brazil, following the Mariana dam disaster, in 2015.