Previously I worked at the Sustainable Environmental Development Deputy Directorate of the National Planning Department of Colombia as coordinator of climate change. While at the deputy directorate, I led the formulation of the Colombian Climate Change Policy, the National Adaptation Plan, the National Development Plan and the research agenda on climate change as well as coordinated technical support for the Colombian Low Carbon Growth Strategy. I have also worked as an external expert panel member of the evaluation of FAO work in climate change mitigation and adaptation. In my current position, I play a major role in leadership on partnerships and capacity for scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture that cuts across all CCAFS Flagships and Regions and all CGIAR Research Programs. I also manage global engagement processes and global synthesis topics that cut across all CCAFS Flagship Leaders, including report/paper writing, engagement and communication and leading on major CCAFS proposals. I also lead the Latin American Section of CCAFS. In this position, I play a major role in partnership development aimed to build impact pathways so that knowledge in climate change leads to implementation. I have used my experience working in the public sector to become a key partner of policy makers and planners in the region so that they truly use climate information and tools to design and implement plans and strategies and find ways to make climate information useful and applicable for end-users. I hold a Master and a PhD in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles, USA (UCLA). My research agenda has focused on understanding how science can influence decision-making processes either by policy stakeholders or by farmers’ themselves. The work with respect to the appropriation of climate information by farmers presented in my recent publication: Bridging the gap between climate science and farmers in Colombia was the winner of the United Nations Momentum for Change Lighthouse Award 2017. I have also worked on the construction and comparison between various types of economic models to assess the consequences of adaptation and mitigation for the economic development of the countries. This research agenda has helped deeply to inform policies and interventions that combine and consider trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation toward low emissions agricultural development. I am a national of Colombia and I am currently based in Cali, Colombia.