Gregory Watson

Gregory Watson leads the IDB’s Natural Capital Lab program, funded by the governments of France and the United Kingdom. It works with the IDB Group and partners to drive innovation in natural capital finance and promote biodiversity mainstreaming. ​It incubates, accelerates, and scales new solutions to pressing environmental problems by looking at nature as asset.

Previously, Greg worked in the IDB Lab where he led the IDB’s first equity investment in oceans, an equity investment in a Macauba silvopastoral system, developed the first Habitat Bank in LAC, supported an asset class for natural capital trading, and structured a $20M Green Climate Fund investment project for forests. He also created the EcoMicro green microfinance program, conceptualized the Climatescope, and designed the first private sector FIP project in the world, in Mexico.

Mr. Watson has a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor’s from Tufts University.