Fabio Scarano

Dr. Fabio Rubio Scarano has over 100 publications on topics related to biodiversity conservation, botany, climate change, ecology, higher education policy, and science policy. Dr. Fabio Rubio Scarano joined CI in 2009 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and holds the position of Senior Vice President for the Americas Field Division. He has a degree in foresty from the University of Brasília, Brazil and a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is an associate professor of Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 1993; Fellow of the Linnean Society of London since 1995; and has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Darmstadt (Germany, 2002) and Minnesota (US, 2003). In the Brazilian government, Fabio has held positions at the Ministry of Education (2005-2011) and Ministry of Environment (2007-2009). In January 2011, he was a lead author of both IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change) and PBMC (Brazilian Panel of Climate Change). He has over 100 publications on topics related to biodiversity conservation, botany, climate change, ecology, higher education policy and science policy.