Rex Cruz, Associate

Rex completed his doctoral degree in Watershed Management from the University of Arizona, USA in 1990. He is currently a Professor and the Dean at the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the Director of the UPLB CFNR Environmental Forestry Programme. He was a member of the Working Group II of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as Principal Lead Author of the Second Assessment Report, Lead Author of the Third Assessment Report and Coordinating Lead Author of the Fourth Assessment Report. He is a member of the UPLB Interdisciplinary Committee on Climate Change and was responsible for leading the vulnerability and adaptation assessment for the forestry sector as a contribution to the preparation of the Philippine Second National Communication to be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Previously he had several other projects on climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessment in several parts of the Philippines. He has also completed a wide array of research and development projects in watershed and forest management.

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