Dr. Reinaldo Funes Monzote is the Coordinator of Geo-Historical Research Program at Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation (Cuba) and professor of History at University of Havana. Author of From Rainforest to Cane Field. A Cuban Environmental History since 1492 (2008), Despertar del Asociacionismo científico en Cuba (2004), and editor of Naturaleza en declive. Miradas a la historia ambiental de América Latina y el Caribe (2008). His research is dedicated mainly to the Cuban and Caribbean Environmental History, with several academic articles and chapters in collective books about this issues. He is currently working on topics as the comparative history of sugar cane and livestock in Cuba, a synthesis of the environmental history of Great Caribbean region and the relation between Cuban revolution of 1959 and environmental issues up to the 1990s crisis. Currently visiting professor at Yale University (2015-2017), Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS), in The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.