Mario is the Head of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD). UN-REDD is the forest and climate partnership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nations Environment Programme.
He has more than 25 years of experience with the UN, the World Bank and the European Commission at headquarters and country level in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America on both operational and policy work on terrestrial ecosystems, forest governance, biodiversity and climate change.
