About Ruth Nogueron
Ruth Noguerón is an Associate with WRI’s Forest Landscapes Initiative. She is responsible for forestry mapping projects in South America and promoting sustainable procurement of wood and paper-based products. Currently, she is working to expand mapping projects in the Amazon Basin; she is also completing a report about existing mechanisms to re-distribute forest revenues in Latin America.
Before joining WRI, Ruth worked in México City at the Tropical Action Forest Program (PROAFT). Also in México, Ruth worked with a private consulting firm in a national effort to evaluate the natural protected areas of México, a project sponsored by the World Bank and the Mexican government.
Ruth has a Bachelor’s degree in biology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México City, an Associate’s degree in applied geography from Montgomery College, Maryland, and a Masters’ degree in Environmental Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.
