Gabriel is the Head of the Climate Mitigation Unit and Global Team Leader of the UN-REDD Programme at UNEP. He has worked on environmental valuation, quantitative poverty analysis, cost-benefit analysis of REDD+, and integrating social issues into land use and biodiversity conservation policies.
Over the last decade, Gabriel has focused his work on promoting high-integrity carbon markets to support the transition to net zero. Gabriel represents UNEP at ICAO/CORSIA and leads the UNEP’s Carbon Market Group. He is also a Co-Chair of the Expert Panel of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM).
Gabriel holds a degree in Biology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a master’s degree in Economics from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz