Pablo Manzano

Pablo Manzano is a PhD on rangeland ecology (2015) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. With a background on Biology, he has developed a mixed career in research and international development, where he has entered into contact with other disciplines such as Economics, Sociology and Anthropology. He first worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina for three years in the frame of a development cooperation project funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation. He then joined the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Nairobi for four years, to coordinate a global program on pastoralism and conservation, to later coordinate a further global program on pastoralism at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome. After four more years as international consultant in livestock and the environment, he joined the University of Helsinki, Finland, as a post-doc fellow of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability (HELSUS). Since 2022 he is an Ikerbasque Fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change in Bilbao, Spain. He develops transdisciplinary research on sustainability of rural societies and grazed ecosystems, combining data and approaches from both the Global North and the Global South and across temporal scales, with a particular emphasis on the ecological processes mediated by herbivores, be it wild or domestic.