Cristian David Ramirez Sosa

● Supported the technical evaluation and maturation of high-impact NBS opportunities across LATAM, collaborating closely with commercial teams to align projects with Shell’s rigorous internal standards and sustainability goals.

● Provided expert guidance on environmental, community engagement and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) aspects of NBS projects, ensuring alignment with global best practices and certification frameworks.

● Advised on technical robustness of Shell’s LATAM NBS portfolio, ensuring all investments are grounded in sound science and meet leading industry standards such as VERRA.

● Supervised the implementation and certification lifecycle of Shell’ NBS LATAM projects, including validation verification and registration processes. This included in-depth technical reviews of Project Design Documents (PDDs), Monitoring Reports (MRs), and Verification Reports (VRs) to ensure compliance and successful third-party audits (VVBs and Rating Agencies).

● Contributed to global technical excellence by providing peer revies and strategic input to Shell’s Global NBS Technical Team, and by collaborating with the NBS Geomatics team and Shell R&D teams (PTX NBS, PTX Brazil) to analyse spatial and environmental data for project design and impact assessment.

● Elaboration of proposals for R&D projects Manage R&D projects and successfully collaborate with international development partners and internal stakeholders on strategic innovative projects and programs.

● Research and development leader in Colombia office to consolidate the local science and technology unit

• Subject Cartography and GIS

● Project development to claim carbon and biodiversity credits and support for implementing Nature Based Solutions projects

● Provide technical support to the project team and decision-making process to advance the company's priority areas of innovation.

● Provide technical support to the project team and decision-making process to advance the company's priority areas of innovation.

● Forestry and Land Use Adviser for REDD+ projects and AR/R support

● GIS and remote sensing expert with a focus on historical analysis of deforestation

● Subjects in undergraduate program of Environmental Engineering: Environmental Economics, Field Interpretation, Cartography and GIS, Tropical Ecosystems.

● Curricular management activities

● Editor of the Journal of Engineering and Technology, ISSNe-2256-3903

● Project researcher leader in the project Social Perceptions about Climate Change in the rural sector of Caldas municipality. Lasallian Research Fund.

● GIS support in the Formulation of the Ecological Restoration Plan in influence of the Porce III hydroelectric power dam, in response to Resolution # N 1319 de 2013 of the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA)

● Identification, analysis of the impacts and integration of sectoral water demands with the use of a hydrological model that allows the spatial representation of the different stakeholders of the basin and their interactions. Model to support the project Welfare and Economic Evaluation of Climatic Change Impacts on Water Resources at River Basin Scale-IDRC

● Technical Activities for the study of Physical Expansion of the Municipality of Medellín. Information needed for the Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley for all sectors included in the IPCC methodology

● Conducted research for the project Spatially Explicit Drivers of Transitions in Land Cover with Significant Impact on the Provision of Ecosystem Services. Colciencias Call: 543-201.

● Specialist in carbon projects for international markets (REDD, CDM, ARR)

● Land cover analyses in the Economic, Ecological and Socio-Cultural Valuation Plan for Environmental Goods and Ecosystem Services in the Rio Grande Basin: Conceptual and Methodological Approach

● Modelling aspects for the baseline of deforestation in Antioquia in the context of Institutional and Technical Scientific Capacity to support Projects to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Colombia - Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

• GIS support for establish the Guidelines for the Bajo Cauca-Nechí Reserve Management Plan.