Principal Advisor of Land Innovation Fund

For over 30 years, Carlos E. Quintela has managed environment, climate, and sustainable finance programs. In 2020, he joined the Land Innovation Fund for Sustainable Livelihoods, established by Cargill and implemented by Chemonics, first as Director until 2023, and now as Principal Advisor. Currently he serves as Chemonics’ Managing Director for the Climate, Environment and Natural Resources portfolio in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since joining Chemonics in 2005, he has led several USAID-funded projects: SERVIR and Climate Services Support Activity, a joint initiative of NASA and USAID; the Mozambique Coastal City Adaptation Project; the Peru Bosques Project; and the Environmental and Labor Excellence for CAFTA-DR Program in Central America and the Dominican Republic. At the Andean Development Corporation, he was Director of Sustainable Development and led the establishment of the Latin American Carbon Program. He was director of Bolivia’s National Fund for the Environment, one of the first environmental funds in Latin America, and a founding member and first chairman of the Conservation Finance Alliance that organized the sustainable finance program at the 5th IUCN’s World Parks Congress.