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Rodrigo Martinez was born in Colombia and started working for the Department
of Sustainable Development in late 2007. He holds a Bachelor of Business
Administration from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá-Colombia-, a Graduate
Certificate of Advanced Financial Management, and a Master in Natural
Resource Economics from The University of Queensland-Australia-.
He has
experience in areas such as policy analysis, business plan development,
information systems, website and database development, e-business and
e-commerce, cost-benefit analysis of private reserves, marketing research,
trade of natural products and ecotourism among others. He has worked in IT
private companies, environmental NGO’s, the Ministry of Environment, Housing
and Territorial Development of Colombia, and as a trade and environment
researcher at the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies of Colombia.
Prior
to joining the DSD, he was coordinating the National Biotrade Watch of
Colombia within the Alexander von Humboldt Institute where he developed the
Markets Information System and designed the Technology Transfer System of
Biotrade for Colombia. He speaks fluent English and Spanish and has working
knowledge of Portuguese.
Rodrigo’s work at the DSD is focused in environmental economics, in
particular supporting member States as they develop payment for ecosystem
services and also in the linkages of trade and environment. |
