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Marco Vermaasen

Senior Environment Manager

Marco is BIC’s senior environment manager. Working from Berlin, Germany, he supports our policy and environmental programs in Asia and Latin America. He joined BIC in 2022 as a consultant supporting monitoring of WBG and IDB projects in Latin America as well as leading BIC’s research on WBG’s decarbonization of its transport portfolio.

Before joining BIC, he worked as Network Development Officer and Policy Officer for Wetlands International in the Netherlands, as Coordinator of a GEF conservation project in the La Plata basin, and as Planning Director for a municipal government in Argentina. He has also served as Information Specialist at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires and in the Economic Section of the Argentine Embassy in Berlin.

Ongoing
Projects.

We support our partners in combining research, monitoring, and strategic engagement to track project implementation, amplify community concerns, and push institutions to address gaps and risks.

Project In Latin America

IFC Arauco Sucuriú

Project In Asia

Philippines’ Second Energy Transition DPL

Project In Asia

Bangladesh’s LNG Financing Facility

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