Mariana Moreno Kuhnke studied law at the Universidad de Granada. Subsequently, she worked on environmental law at the law firm Rattagan, Macchiavello, Arocena & Peña Robirosa in Buenos Aires (Argentina) – today Estudio Gabriel Macchiavello. She has a Master in Environmental Law and sustainability from the University of Alicante (Spain) and a Master in Law Science from the University do Vale do Itajaí – UNIVALI (Brazil). From 2017 to 2021 she was engaged as a lawyer in the spanisch environmetal NGO AMA-Natura/Ecologistas en Acción.

In April 2021, she joined IKEM as a Research Associate in the Department of Energy Law. She has been head of the department since October 2023.