Manuel GUARIGUATA

Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research

Manuel Guariguata is a tropical forest ecologist with 25 yr of research experience in management for multiple goods and services of natural and restored forests, mostly from a biophysical perspective but also considering regulatory, normative and social aspects.  He is Principal Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry Centre.  Before then he served as Programme Officer on Forest Biodiversity at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and as researcher and professor at CATIE, Costa Rica.  A Venezuelan national, he received his PhD from Yale School of Forestry, his M.Sc. in Botany from University of Florida and his undergraduate degree in Biology from Universidad Simon Bolivar.