Mr. Bucaram, PhD, is an Ecuadorean Economist who holds a MBA from the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial as well as a MSc in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Florida. He achieved his PhD in the same field in 2012 at the University of California – Davis. Since 2018, he is the Sector Specialist in Natural Resources within the Natural Resources and Disaster Risk Management Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington DC. Before this position, he was Director of Ecuador’s Center for Economics Investigation (ESPOL), as well as independent consultant in natural resource management in several biodiversity hotspots, such as the Cocos and the Galapagos Islands. In more than 15 years of professional exercise, he has led consultancy projects in biodiversity and food systems in some of the world’s leading cooperation and research institutions such as the World Bank, WWF, the IADB, as well as several Universities.

Mr. Bucaram participated in Panel 1: The Main Challenges for Food and Nutrition Security at the Agrobiodiversity Symposium on Day 2 of the Food Forever Experience Cusco.