Carmen Josse is an Ecuadorean biologist and holds a PhD in Science from the University of Arhus in Denmark. She is the director of the EcoCiencia Foundation of Ecuador and was previously the Scientific Director of the Foundation.

She leads EcoCiencia’s participation in the Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information - RAISG and in the North Amazon Alliance, and is a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon.

Prior to this, Carmen worked for 15 years at NatureServe as the Regional Ecologist for Latin America and the Caribbean developing methods and products for classification, mapping, and evaluation of ecosystems throughout Latin America to support conservation planning and decision making.

Her experience with georeferenced tools and collaborative work with peers across the continent led to the publication of comprehensive vegetation, ecosystems, and threats maps for different geographies, including the whole of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her ecological systems map provided the basis for the publication of a red list assessment for tropical and temperate forests of the Americas.