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Mariana Sarmiento from Colombia received her B.A degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Tulane University and graduated with a M.E.M degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the Yale School of the Environment (formerly Forestry & Environmental Studies) in 2011. Sarmiento is the 2017 recipient of the Mulago Foundation’s Conservation Fellow award.
Sarmiento has expertise in environmental policy design and implementation, environmental markets, corporate environmental sustainability and conflict analysis. She has helped companies, governments, and international agencies to mainstream environmental issues in the decision making process in Latin America and the U.S. Sarmiento had also worked for the Ministry of Environment in Colombia, the Wildlife Conservation Society and consulted for the World Bank.
Sarmiento is the founder and CEO of Terrasos, a strategic environmental consultancy. In 2014, Terrasos initiated the first Habitat Bank in Colombia and Latin America. It is Colombia’s only provider of environmental offset solutions using a performance-based approach within Colombia’s regulatory framework following a Presidential Order signed in December 2016. Its current clients include private companies in the mining and energy sector as well as international and national agencies.