Company
IUCN
Job Title
Programme manager. Red list of Ecosystems
Marcos Valderrabano is the Programme Manager of the Red List of Ecosystems at the Centre for Science and Data of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). As a young graduate in Forest engineering, Marcos started his career leading concrete projects on the ground in different parts of the world including Peru, Egypt and Lebanon, before joining IUCN in 2010. During the next 10 years, Marcos was supporting different initiatives around the Mediterranean region, where he led the ecosystem programme of IUCN MED until he joined the Global Programme of IUCN in 2020 to support the Red list of Ecosystem Programme, fascinated by the interface between science and practice.