Summary
Cecile Girardin is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist and policy analyst with 12 years’ experience combining tropical ecology, field-based data analysis, and climate change policy work. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and has applied her expertise across UN-REDD+, the Environmental Change Institute, and leadership roles in biochar organisations, bridging academic research and practical climate mitigation solutions. Her work spans intensive Andean and Amazonian field campaigns, policy design for forest carbon initiatives, and hands-on biochar development, giving her a rare blend of ecosystem process knowledge and policy fluency. Based in Oxford, she is known for translating complex ecological data into actionable guidance for international programs and for leading collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects that connect science to implementation.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at University of Oxford
MsC, MsC at Imperial College London
Charles de Gaulle