Oscar Crespo Pinillos

Oscar Crespo Pinillos is a graduate student at the Yale School of the Environment. Originally from Logroño, in Spain, before coming to Yale he worked in Spain in the forest sector. Passionate about nature and the outdoors from a young age he decided to study forestry engineering in Spain at the University of Valladolid and University of Santiago de Compostela as well as abroad in Finland and the US through exchange programs. He started his professional career as environmental consultant.  He also interned at the Biodiversity Foundation, a public foundation in Spain, dealing with their Land Trust platform and biodiversity conservation projects. Later he worked in sustainable forest management and in  a forest products company. At Yale his main interest include conservation finance, community forestry and rural development both in Spain and Latin America.