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Dr. José Joaquín Campos named next director general of CATIE |
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Turrialba, Costa Rica — The Governing Council of Ministers of CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) has selected Dr. José Joaquín Campos as CATIE’s next director general.
Campos, who is currently subdirector at CATIE and head of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, will begin a four-year term on March 1, 2008, when the current director, Dr. Pedro Ferreira Rossi of Uruguay, steps down after serving for two terms. |
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 The decision comes after a rigorous, months-long process that narrowed the list of candidates from 36 to three and involved interviews, written statements and oral presentations to CATIE’s staff and board of directors as well as the Governing Council of Ministers. The council, which is made up of the ministers of agriculture and environment from the center’s 13 member countries, the representative of the Interamerican Board of Agriculture and the director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), made the final selection from the finalists recommended by the board.
The Governing Council of Ministers, in a resolution confirming the election, said, “We wish to thank the CATIE Board of Directors for its transparent, participatory and effective management of the selection process for director general. We wish Dr. Campos a successful term as director general of CATIE.”
“My commitment,” said Campos, "is to lead CATIE as a key partner that works in collaboration with both public and private entities, from local to international levels, to support our member countries in their efforts to achieve competitiveness and sustainability in the agriculture and natural resources sectors."
“My goal is to build on CATIE’s combination of cutting edge science and grass-roots realism that makes it unique in the developing world,” he continued. “We will put our research higher education and outreach programs and our links to farmers and policy makers to work to respond to the challenges our countries face in a changing world.”
Campos received an undergraduate degree as a forestry engineer from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil in 1980, a master’s in the management of natural resources from CATIE in 1985 and a doctorate in forestry science from Oxford University in the United Kingdom in 1990.
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CATIE has been his home since 1993, where in addition to serving as subdirector and department head, he also presides over the Model Forest Regional Network for Latin America America and the Caribbean, which has its headquarters at CATIE. His principal areas of research include integrated rural development, ecosystem approaches to managing natural resources and agricultural lands, integrated watershed management, conservation and management of tropical forests, payment for ecosystem services, natural resources policy, and certification, criteria and indicators for sustainable development.
An active participant in important political dialogues on natural resources and environment, Campos has an ongoing role in formulation of the Regional Agroenvironmental Strategy being developed at the behest of the ministers of agriculture, environment and health in Central America. He is a member of the International Council of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations), on the board of the International Society of Tropical Foresters and an adjunct profesor at the University of Laval in Canada.
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From 1990 to 1993 he was director of the Fundación Neotrópica and World Wildlife Fund Boscosa Program in Costa Rica, which focused on conservation and development in the Osa Peninsula. His first job after leaving Brazil with his undergraduate degree was as coordinator and then regional adviser of the highly successful Madeleña Project (USAID/CATIE), dealing with the multifunctional management of tree resources at the farm level.
His work in research and development is documented in more than 100 publications in which he has participated, including book chapters, articles in juried scientific journals, technical series and policy briefs, among others.
Dr. Campos is married and has three children.
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