Róger Madrigal is Center Director and Senior Research Fellow at EfD-CA. He is an environmental economist and received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is the academic coordinator of the MSc Program in Economics, Development, and Climate Change at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). He is also the director of the Latin American Chair on Environmental Decisions for Global Change (CLADA), at CATIE.
Dr. Madrigal is an accomplished environmental economist with two decades of experience driving impactful projects and pioneering applied research initiatives, mainly across Latin America. My primary focus revolves around the domains of rural water community systems, community-based approaches for natural resource management, sustainable consumption, and the formulation and execution of financial mechanisms to promote watershed conservation. In addition, he has delved into ocean economy issues.
