Experience

Amazonia Impact Ventures

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jun 2021 - Present

• Impact Director

  • Jun 2020 - Jun 2021

  An impact investing company created to protect the Amazon, improve forest people's livelihoods and mitigate climate change by investing in social enterprises.



Rainforest Foundation UK

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Coordinator Andean Amazon Programme

  • 2012 - 2021

  Leading the development and delivery of the Andean Amazon Programme strategy.• Implementing the first Development Impact Bond in the Amazon.• Design and develop forest conservation and sustainable agriculture projects.• Develop successful proposals and fundraised from private companies, private foundations, and intergovernmental financial institutions.• Advise cacao and coffee cooperatives on business strategy, finance management and marketing to integrate with markets and achieve financial sustainability.• Mentor of Kemito Ene, a ‘model’ of indigenous social enterprise in the Peruvian Amazon.• Advocate for indigenous peoples land rights, access to natural resources, and implementation of equity and benefit-sharing mechanisms.



World Wildlife Fund

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Water and Energy Programme Manager

  • 2010 - 2011

  • Responsible for WWF’s sustainable hydropower strategy in Peru. Close work with the Environment Commission of the Peruvian Congress, NGOs, local populations, and the scientific community to develop sustainability standards.• Improved environmental and social standards for oil operations, through the implementation of monitoring systems to identify oil spills on sensible socio-ecological systems.• Provided strategic research on renewable energy, oil & gas, and hydropower industries.

• Northwestern Amazon Programme Manager

  • 2008 - 2010

  • Build strategic partnership with indigenous peoples organizations based on a common agenda of conservation and protecton of indigenous rights in the Amazon.• Introduced an innovative approach in conservation programmes by promoting the vital link between health of people and health of ecosystems.• Coordinated with partners in Colombia and Ecuador the implementation of a trinational project in a transboundary basin.

• Freshwater Programme Manager

  • 2007 - 2008

  • Led the development of the Amazonian chapter on the Peruvian Water Law.• Developed and implemented a freshwater fishery management programme for 200 fishermen, that led to the production of 190 tonnes of fish, under strict sustainability parameters.• Advise and supervise a sustainable agriculture (cacao) project as a strategy to alleviate poverty in indigenous communities.

• Freshwater Officer

  • Jul 2006 - 2007

  • Coordinated with partner in Ecuador the implementation of a binational project in a transboundary basin.• Participated on the Amazon Initiative strategy, through the development of aquatic ecosystems models and analysis of freshwater connectivity.



Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina

• Peru
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager

  • 2004 - Jun 2006

  • Managed four research and conservation projects at local, national and regional scales.• Designed biodiversity monitoring plans for protected areas. • Supervised natural resources management plans in protected areas.

• Species and Landscape ecology analyst

  • 2002 - 2004

  • Developed land use change models and deforestation analysis in the Andean Amazon by applying state of the art techniques for spatial modelling. • Participated on design and implementation of systematic conservation planning to produce portfolios of conservation areas in high biodiversity ecoregions. • Improved efficiency of biodiversity databases management by redesigning the data gathering processes and data query.