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The BCA Fund is managed and supervised by a Board of Directors to be composed of nine directors. Three directors represent the Republic of Ecuador, one of whom is the Government Co-Chair of the Board. The government directors ensure that the resources administered by the BCA Fund are used in a manner aligned with the country’s priorities and that they support the implementation of Ecuador’s public policies. The Nature Conservancy, as a partner in the debt conversion project, maintains one director on the Board. The other five directors are individuals from the society who do not represent institutions, but are selected because they bring complementary skills and experience to ensure that the BCA Fund is managed by a diverse, multi-sectoral group that is knowledgeable about local realities.
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Director
International organization Director
Social organization Director
Ministry of Environment Director
Foreign Affairs Ministry Director
Ministry of Production Director
Director representing communes, communities, indigenous peoples and nationalities
Financial expert director
Director of the Ecuadorian academy
The BCA Fund will hire a team of professionals to manage the organization. An Executive Director will lead the team, which will include professionals in finance, conservation, monitoring, administration, communication, among others. The BCA Fund will recruit its team through competitive processes, which will be communicated on the website and social media.
and accountability in the use of the resources received. To this end, the BCA Fund adopts procedures and templates that allow organizations to apply for funding and signs grant agreements with organizations whose projects have been approved, allowing the Fund to monitor and report on the results. The BCA Fund will publish project selection criteria and templates for organizations to submit proposals for funding.
Photo: TNC Ecuador
Photo: TNC Ecuador
that will be managed by the BCA Fund. The Program will receive an average of USD 19 million per year for the next 17 years. The financing will also capitalize an endowment fund, expected to be worth USD 135 million by 2042, to support the Amazon Biocorridor over the long term.
Photo: TNC Ecuador
The following institutions participated in the debt conversion process to generate resources for the Amazon Biocorridor Program:
The BCA Fund received pro-bono support from the legal firm Morrison & Foerster in the debt conversion transaction.
Director of the Ecuador Program of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since January 2012, he leads a team of approximately 25 Ecuadorian professionals committed to the conservation of terrestrial, freshwater and marine biodiversity in one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. With more than 30 years of experience in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in Ecuador and Latin America, he has led the implementation of conservation initiatives under different strategies, fostering multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and promoting public policies at the local, national and Andean regional levels. Currently, he is responsible for the overall institutional, programmatic and operational management of TNC Ecuador, ensuring that TNC’s conservation agenda is aligned with national priorities, capacity building, institutionalization of processes and harmonization with other actors seeking sustainability in the country.
Prior to TNC, he promoted páramo ecosystem work in Ecuador as part of EcoCiencia, the Ecuadorian Foundation for Ecological Studies, where he was its Executive Director between 2001 and 2005. From April 2006 to January 2012, he was the regional director of the ECOBONA Program, an Andean initiative of the Swiss Cooperation in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, where he worked on a social management proposal for Andean forest ecosystems in these countries.
He holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, a degree in Agroecology from the University of Costa Rica and a master’s degree in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida in Gainesville, USA.
Sebastián Valdivieso is an environmental engineer with a master’s degree in sustainable energy development. He has more than 30 years of experience in environmental issues, especially in the Ecuadorian Amazon. His career spans environmental management, sustainable development and conservation, having worked on projects in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Syria and Libya. He currently serves as Country Director for the Ecuador Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Ph.D. in Science, 1996,Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark Doctoral dissertation: Composition, dynamics and structure of dry forest communities in coastal Ecuador.
Degree in Biological Sciences 1989, Faculty of Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
Dr. Josse is the Executive Director of Fundación EcoCiencia since March 2020. She participates in the development of products of the Amazonian Network of Geo-referenced Socio-environmental Information (RAISG). She was regional ecologist for Latin America and the Caribbean at NatureServe from 2001 to 2016 and developer of methods and products for classification, mapping and assessment of ecosystems across Latin America to support conservation planning. She collaborates with the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) to generate an assessment of current trends and recommendations for sustainable and equitable development of the Amazon. She has experience with geo-referenced tools for assessing ecosystem adaptation to climate change, quantitative threat analysis and monitoring of conservation targets.
