Yabanex Batista

Deputy Director - UN Global Team, Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) - United Nations Capital Development Fund

Yabanex Batista is Deputy Director of the UN Global Team for the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), hosted by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). With over 20 years of experience, his career is focused on international financing institutions, sustainable financing for conservation and development, government relations and policy, and multilateral environmental agreements. Previously, he served as CEO of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund and worked with organizations like GITEC/GIZ in Mexico, The Nature Conservancy’s international government relations and Europe office, the World Bank-GEF Unit, the US Geological Survey, and IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) in Brazil.