Guillermo A. Navarro, PhD
Forest Scientist
Forest Ecology and Management + Environmental Science & Policy
Guillermo is a forest scientist on the Supply team at Carbon Direct Inc. He uses his expertise in forest management, forestry economics, and policy to support high-quality carbon removal through scientific due diligence and technical guidance.
Background & Bio
Before Carbon Direct, Guillermo worked as a Forest Officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In this capacity, he coordinated the FAO-EU-FLEGT Program in Latin America and the Caribbean. The program aimed to support and facilitate forest management operations, ensuring legal compliance in several Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries (2017-2022). Previously, Guillermo was a professor and researcher in forest policy and economics at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), with proven experience in postgraduate education, strategic training, applied research, and executive-level technical cooperation and outreach. His work has contributed to improving tropical forest valuation and investment analysis, developed multiple use and multifunction forestry (REDD+ and VCM carbon projects), forest landscape restoration (FLR), nature-based business development, forest policy reform, and the strengthening of forest sector governance across the Neotropics (2002-2017; 2022-2024).
Education
PhD, Forest Economics and Management
Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany
MS, Tropical Forest Management and Economics
Dresden University of Technology, Tharandt, Germany
BS, Forest Resources
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, US
Awards
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholar
Dresden University of Technology
United States Aid (USAID) - CAPS Scholar
University of Idaho
FAO Award
Exemplary case for sustainable forest management practices in Tropical America