Yelena Finegold
Forestry Officer at FAO
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolYelena Finegold is a forestry and geospatial specialist with 11 years of experience leading ecosystem restoration monitoring at FAO, where she directs the Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) and coordinates a 400-expert Task Force across 120 organizations. She combines technical expertise in remote sensing, GIS and open-source land monitoring tools with hands-on support for national reporting systems, REDD+ and peatland restoration assessments. Based in Rome, she builds user-friendly geospatial platforms and registries that translate complex satellite data into actionable restoration metrics for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and Global Biodiversity Framework Target 2. Her background in spatial modelling and land-change projections underpins a pragmatic approach to long-term forest futures and policy-relevant monitoring. Notably, she has supported over 20 countries in developing national satellite monitoring systems, blending field experience with scalable digital solutions.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Geography, Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Geography, Economics at Clark UniversityGeography, Geoinformatics, Geography, Geoinformatics at University of Helsinki
English, Russian, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (19)
shiny9
data-processing9
spatial8
python7
unify4
planet3
algorithm3
monitor3
geospatial3
plot2
widgets2
voila2
gis2
time-series1
landsat1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yfinegold/runBFAST
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:97 commits, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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