Ivonne Lanza Saavedra has a master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the International University of Valencia, Spain. She is a teacher and director of the Aula Taleninstituut Nijmegen Language Academy in the city of Nijmegen, Netherlands.
She actively participated and collaborated in the research carried out by her husband, Dr. Fons Smolders, with the logistics and reception of the students who participated during all the years that the research lasted. Villamontina by birth and lover of her Chaco now collaborates with BioChaco.