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Executive Secretary
Company NameUNFCCC
Dates EmployedJul 2010 – Jun 2016
Employment Duration6 yrs
LocationBonn, Germany
I have been involved in climate change negotiations since 1995. Initially a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team, I was also a member of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism and Vice President of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties in 2008-2009.
In 1995, I founded the Centre for Sustainable Development of the Americas (CSDA), a non-profit think tank for climate change policy and capacity-building, which I directed until 2003. Before that, I served as Director of the Technical Secretariat, Renewable Energy in the Americas (REIA).
I began my life of public service at the Embassy of Costa Rica in Germany in 1982. I also served as Director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Planning in Costa Rica (1987-1988), and was Chief of Staff to the Minister of Agriculture (1988-90).
Before joining the UNFCCC secretariat I served on many boards of non-governmental organizations involved in climate change issues, published widely on the design of climate solutions, and was an adviser to private sector companies. I graduated from Swarthmore College, have a Masters Degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and a certificate in Organizational Development from Georgetown University. |