Gabriel Sidman

Gabriel is a natural resources management professional focusing on climate change and watershed management. Currently he works at the World Bank Water Global Practice, ensuring climate change considerations are integrated into its projects. Gabriel spent almost four years at the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) where he led thematic evaluations of GEF interventions, including of GEF’s work in artisanal and small-scale gold mining, climate adaptation and resilience and water security. He also has a keen interest in geospatial analysis of remote sensing, a method he integrated into his evaluations. He was also a climate change specialist for five years at Winrock International, focusing on climate change mitigation results based-payments programs in the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector and ecosystem services accounting using spatial analysis. He has a master’s degree in Watershed Hydrology from the University of Arizona where he used geospatial watershed models to assist rapid response to flood events. Before his master’s studies, Gabriel served as a Peace Corps volunteer living in a cloud forest in Honduras for two and a half years, where he first became passionate about the connections between people and their land.