María Paz Lobo is an environmental engineer working through the lens of sustainable design specifically in the coffee value chain. Her work has been focused mainly in the areas of climate change, technological and product development, traceability systems and community level projects.

In 2017, as her graduation thesis, she developed an Environmental Production Declaration (EPD) in green coffee which was the first Life Cycle Assessment done in an agricultural product in Costa Rica, and served as the basis for Costa Rican coffee to become the first in Latin America to have an Environmental Label. Since then, she has remained in coffee where she is currently the Sustainability Manager of The Coffee Source. She previously worked for 5 years as Sustainability and Project Manager at The Coffee Institute of Costa Rica. She has collaborated with multiple national and international organizations including GIZ, HIVOS, London School of Economics, and Cornell University. She is the founder of Complice Cafe, a social platform that sells cold brew and other coffee related products 100% from women farmers and supporting projects related to women in coffee farms. She is part of the Board of Directors of the Speciality Coffee Association of Costa Rica and the NGO Bean Voyage.