Marcos Castro is a Senior Environmental Specialist at the Carbon Markets & Innovation Unit of the World Bank’s Climate Change Group. He is currently a member of the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) Secretariat and manages technical assistance and capacity development projects on mitigation finance and carbon pricing policy in the Latin American region. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2006, he served as an advisor on climate change & sustainable development in the Ecuadorian administration, including as executive director of its National Clean Development Promotion Office and negotiator of the UNFCCC and other multilateral environmental agreements, and consulted for various regional development organizations (Andean Development Bank (CAF), Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), UN Environment Program) on carbon finance project development. Marcos earned his Economics Engineering degree (MSc) at the Universität Fridericiana Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany.