Aurelio Ramos joined 探花精选 in December of 2019 as senior vice president for 探花精选 Americas. In that role he oversees the program, its international partnerships, and conservation teams working throughout Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The 探花精选 Americas program has four strategies: Protected Areas, Working Lands, Coastal Resilience, and Building a Constituency for Birds.
Prior to joining 探花精选, Ramos worked for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for more than 16 years. At TNC, he led pioneering conservation strategies through incentive-based financing across the Andean landscapes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He spearheaded the development of the 鈥渨ater fund鈥 model for conservation projects that improve water quality and quantity. The water funds initiative won the Rockefeller Foundation Century Innovation Award in 2013 and the P4G Award in Water Security in 2019. There are now more than 35 water funds globally.
Before The Nature Conservancy, Ramos worked with the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), the BioTrade Initiative of the United Nations Conference of Trade and Commerce (UNCTAD), and the Humboldt Biological Research Institute. He led the structuring of the BioTrade Program in Colombia and directly supported its expansion in numerous countries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Ramos holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in economics from Colombia鈥檚 Universidad de Los Andes and a master鈥檚 degree in environmental economics and natural resources from the University of Maryland and Universidad de Los Andes.
