Ruth Noguerón is an Associate with WRI’s Forest Landscapes Initiative. She is responsible for forestry mapping projects in South America and promoting sustainable procurement of wood and paper-based products. Currently, she is working to expand mapping projects in the Amazon Basin; she is also completing a report about existing mechanisms to re-distribute forest revenues in Latin America.

Before joining WRI, Ruth worked in México City at the Tropical Action Forest Program (PROAFT). Also in México, Ruth worked with a private consulting firm in a national effort to evaluate the natural protected areas of México, a project sponsored by the World Bank and the Mexican government.

Ruth has a Bachelor’s degree in biology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in México City, an Associate’s degree in applied geography from Montgomery College, Maryland, and a Masters’ degree in Environmental Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.