Joaquín Carrizosa is a senior advisor at WRI Colombia with over 20 years of experience in the Andes-Amazon region. He has supported governments, organizations, and Indigenous and rural communities in conservation, rural development, land rights, and sustainable livelihoods. His expertise includes project design, management, and financing in complex socio-political contexts.

His work focuses on territorial governance, community-based climate adaptation, and policies addressing environmental threats in vulnerable regions like the Pacific, Caribbean, and Amazon.

Joaquín holds a background in anthropology with training in biology, a master’s in Regional Studies from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), and a PhD in Environmental Anthropology from the University of Kent (UK). He has held leadership roles at WWF Colombia, coordinated Amazon and freshwater strategies, and recently directed ReWild’s Colombia Program. He has also taught at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and conducted research at Mexico’s National Institute of Ecology.