Gabriel has been working on carbon forestry projects in Southeast Asia and Africa since 2006. He specializes in REDD project design, biomass measurement surveys, implementation and monitoring.

Gabriel is the REDD Technical Advisor with the Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation (CliPAD) technical cooperation module with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Laos. He advises the Laos national, provincial and district governments on policy and the technical design and implementation of participatory village-led carbon forestry activities in two piloting projects in northern Laos.



As a Partner and Senior Associate at Forest Carbon he specializes in project design and development, field surveys and advises on REDD policy and leads Forest Carbon's work in Africa. Gabriel and his partners lead the technical work for the InfiniteEARTH Rimba Raya project, the world's first REDD project to be accepted by the rigorous Voluntary Carbon Standard and provided assistance for their certification under the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standard. 


Gabriel's professional background includes tropical forest and wetlands management, natural resource-based community development and field operations.



Gabriel holds a Masters degree in International Economic and Environmental Policy from the University of Chicago and a dual Bachelors Degree in Biology and Anthropology from the University of Michigan. He has held previous positions with Global Eco-Rescue (GER), the Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation (BTRF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rwandan Environmental Management Authority (REMA), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).