Dr Rosimeiry PORTELA

Senior Director, Conservation International

Rosimeiry Portela is a Senior Director at the Conservation International’s Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, and the institutional lead on Natural Capital Accounting efforts. Dr. Portela’s research focuses primarily on nature's provision of ecosystem services and their contribution to human well-being. Her current work explores the integration of environmental-economic information into national accounting systems, through the UN System of Environmental- Economic Accounting (SEEA) Ecosystem Accounting. She is part of the SEEA EEA Technical Committee, the working group overseeing the SEEA EA revision process, and co-lead of the SEEA Subgroup on Accounting for Biodiversity. Dr. Portela is a former Professor of Practice at Arizona State University (ASU), as part of a CI-ASU collaboration.  Rosimeiry is originally from Brazil and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.