Leida Mercado. PhD

Director of Research for Green and Inclusive Development Division at CATIE. Previously she was leader of the Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program (MAP) also at CATIE, her work with MAP was focused on increasing the resilience to climate change at several scales in two Central American territories using the Climate-Smart Territories approach. She received her engineering degree in Agronomy at The Central University of Venezuela and her M.P.S. and PhD at Cornell University.