Juliana Jaramillo is the global lead for regenerative agriculture at the Rainforest Alliance. Growing up on a coffee farm in Colombia, she learned at an early age the challenges that producers of tropical commodities face. Jaramillo oversees the Rainforest Alliance’s global strategy for driving more regenerative agricultural practices and policies across its certification and landscape programmes.
Before joining the Rainforest Alliance in 2019, Jaramillo worked for 17 years in academia, the public sector and the private sector, including Bayer Crop Science. Her work in sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation and integrated pest management has spanned multicultural settings across Latin America, Africa and Europe.
Jaramillo studied agronomic engineering at the University of Caldas in Colombia. Jaramillo earned her Ph.D. in entomology, biological control and IPM from the University of Hannover in Germany, as well as her M.Sc. degree in entomology and phytopathology. In 2015, the Alejandro Ángel Escobar Foundation awarded Jaramillo the Environment and Sustainable Development Prize for her research on semiochemicals in East African coffee landscapes.