Richard Huber

Richard Huber is the Chief, Sustainable Communities, Hazard Risk, and Climate Change Section of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS). The Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) supports OAS Member States in the design and implementation of policies, programs and projects oriented to integrate environmental priorities with poverty alleviation, and socio-economic development goals. Translating sustainable development and environmental protection goals into concrete actions, DSD supports the execution of multiple-country projects in such diverse areas as integrated water management, renewable energy, natural Hazards-climate change adaptation and land use planning, biological diversity and environmental law and policy.

For the GS/OAS, Richard Huber is coordinating the “Building the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)”, the “Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative” (WHMSI), and ReefFix: An Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Ecosystem Services Valuation and Capacity Building Project for the Caribbean. He has 10 years with the World Bank where he worked in the environmental social impact of loans and task managed several Environmental Management and Protected Areas projects and 17 years with the OAS where he has worked in sustainable development of the Americas Hemisphere.  He has published on several OAS initiatives highlighting win-win institutional, legislative, policy, and participatory frameworks for sustainable development.   Best practice case studies are presented on biodiversity informatics and payments for environmental services programs throughout the Americas.