Maribel Hernandez has outstanding experience in performing complex assessments and evaluations, financial and economic analysis, policy appraisals, as well as providing strategic guidance to governmental, multilateral and non-governmental organizations involved in the management of natural resources.
Over the years, she has developed a comprehensive experience in assessing socioeconomic and environmental vulnerabilities of communities and territories to climate change, elaborating climate change adaptation strategies and action plans, identifying, valuating and prioritizing co-benefits, and making economic and financial assessments of programs aiming at fostering climate change adaptation and mitigation. She has led or participated in more than 50 consulting projects including the elaboration of climate socio-economic vulnerability assessments and climate change adaptation plans for forest regions, rural areas and indigenous communities in Canada, the state of Minas Gerais in Brasil as well as some private companies including a Colombian agrifood group, and a Latin-American bank. She has also made an economic and financial evaluation of the climate change strategy of the French Lorrain’s Region.
Maribel is an agricultural engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid with a four-year specialization in Economics. She also holds a Master of Sciences in Natural Resources Management from the Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM-IAMM) and a post-graduate diploma (D.E.A.) in Geography from Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France.
Joined 2014
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