Henri Rueff

Henri Rueff is the Director for Climate Action and a Principal Scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), based in Palmira, Colombia.

Henri is also an Associate Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern. He is an environmental economist by training, and holds a PhD on carbon credits from dryland afforestation, examining the minimum carbon price at which farmers would shift away from conventional farming practices. He has more than twenty years of international research experience in environmental sciences, with extensive field work across Myanmar, Pakistan, Mongolia, Botswana, the Middle-East, Morocco, and the Western Balkans.

Henri's research spans a range of disciplines including climate change adaptation, dryland agriculture, afforestation, ecosystem services, non-timber forest products, and pastoralism and rangeland management, alongside work on environmental governance, transformative change, and the science-policy interface in multilateral environmental negotiations.

He served as a Coordinating Lead Author for UNEP's seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) and contributed to the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR 2019). He has also taught climate hazards governance at the University of Oxford, and has advised finance ministries in Haiti and Albania on national climate finance strategies. Henri has worked extensively with multilateral climate and development funds, including the Green Climate Fund, the Adaptation Fund, the Asian Development Bank and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.