Edgar E. Gutierrez-Espeleta
Edgar E. Gutierrez-Espeleta, a Costa Rican by birth, obtained his B. Sc. in Statistics from the University of Costa Rica, and his M. Sc. and Ph. D. in Forest Biometry from Iowa State University, USA. He taught at University of Costa Rica (UCR) from 1982 until 2014 when he retired as a full professor. He founded, in 1997, the Development Observatory, a research unit at UCR dealing with sustainable development issues particularly, the development of indicators, indices and ways to present data for decision makers, and was its Director until 2005 when he became Chair of the School of Statistics at the same university. He has written more than 40 scientific articles in national and international peer reviewed journals and a book on Statistical Methods. Prof. Gutierrez-Espeleta collaborated with UNEP GEO projects in Latin America and the Caribbean and lead the first two GEO LACs and the regional environmental data portal to support the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and Caribbean, among others. He has lead also projects for UNDP, IDB and UNSD. He was Minister of Environment and Energy for Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. He was also the President of the Second and Third United Nations Environment Assembly in 2016 and 2017. Currently, he is Special Policy Advisory for UNCCD, member of the High-Level Panel for the development of the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index for UNGA; member of the UNEP Foresight Expert Panel, and vice chair of the UNEP Global Environment Outlook 7.
Phone: 506 8884 0072
Address: San Pedro Montes de Oca, San José
Phone: 506 8884 0072
Address: San Pedro Montes de Oca, San José
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