Gabriel is a sociologist with more than twenty years of experience in development and environmental policy. From 2011 to 2016, Gabriel served as Vice Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources of Peru, a position in which he has been re-appointed as of March 2019. During this appointment, he led the organization of UNFCCC’s COP20 in Lima. From 2014 and 2015, Gabriel also served as Co-Chair of the Green Climate Fund’s Board of Directors, representing the Developing Countries Constituency. Previously, Gabriel worked as an Expert of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit of the IADB; Country Representative of the Nature Conservancy; Environmental Specialist at the National Council for the Environment (CONAM); Director of the Technical Department of the Peruvian Trust Fund for Protected Areas (PROFONANPE) and Associate Researcher of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica.

Gabriel participated in Panel 2: The Nutritional and Resilient Power of Diversity at the Agrobiodiversity Symposium on Day 2 of the Food Forever Experience Cusco.