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Leadership

Nirmal Bhagabati

Senior Program Officer (Environmental Services), World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US) Conservation Science Program
nirmal.bhagabati@wwfus.org

Becky Chaplin-Kramer

Lead Scientist
bchaplin@stanford.edu
Gretchen Daily

Gretchen Daily

Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the Natural Capital Project, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University, Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
gdaily@stanford.edu

James Douglass

Software Lead
jdouglass@stanford.edu
Anne Guerry

Anne Guerry

Chief Strategy Officer, Lead Scientist
anne.guerry@stanford.edu

Gail Kaiser

Finance, Grants & Operations Manager
gail.kaiser@stanford.edu

Eric Lonsdorf

Program Director, Lead Scientist
lons0011@umn.edu

Lisa Mandle

Lead Scientist
lmandle@stanford.edu

Steve Polasky

Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota
polasky@umn.edu
Mary Ruckelshaus

Mary Ruckelshaus

Managing Director
mary.ruckelshaus@stanford.edu

Adrian L. Vogl

Lead Scientist
avogl@stanford.edu

Team

Katie Arkema

Senior Earth Scientist
karkema@stanford.edu
Lori Avila

Lori Avila

Training Coordinator
lavila@stanford.edu
Allison Bailey

Allison Bailey

Research Data Scientist
allison.bailey@stanford.edu

Andrea Baudoin Farah

Postdoctoral Scholar
abaudoin@stanford.edu

Kate Brauman

AAAS Science Technology Policy Fellow
kbrauman@umn.edu

Sarah Cafasso

Communications Manager
scafasso@stanford.edu
Jade Delevaux

Jade Delevaux

Life Science Researcher
jademd@stanford.edu
Douglas denu

Douglas Denu

Senior Software Engineer
ddenu@stanford.edu
Zhaowei Ding

Zhaowei Ding

Postdoctoral Scholar
zhaowei@stanford.edu
Alejandra Echeverri

Alejandra Echeverri

Postdoctoral Scholar
ale.echeverri@stanford.edu
Dave Fisher

Dave Fisher

Software Engineer
davefisher@stanford.edu
J-Goldstein

Jesse Goldstein

GIS Analyst
jgldstn@stanford.edu

Robert Griffin

Economist
rmgriff@stanford.edu
Marcelo Guevara

Marcelo Guevara

Research Associate
marceloguevara@stanford.edu

Perrine Hamel

Assistant Professor, NTU Asian School of the Environment
perrine.hamel@ntu.edu.sg

Peter Hawthorne

Ecologist
hawt0010@umn.edu
Nicholas Hendershot

Nicholas Hendershot

Postdoctoral Fellow
jhende@stanford.edu
Benjamin Janke

Benjamin Janke

Hydrologist
janke024@umn.edu

Justin Andrew Johnson

Economist
jajohns@umn.edu

Bonnie Keeler

keeler@umn.edu

Jan Kuiper

Postdoctoral Researcher
jan.kuiper@su.se

Lingling Liu

Remote Sensing Data Scientist
lingling.liu@stanford.edu

Sydney Moss

Research Associate
sydmoss@stanford.edu

Christopher Nootenboom

Researcher
cnootenb@umn.edu

Nasser Olwero

Director, Information Science
Nasser.Olwero@wwfus.org

Derric Pennington

Lead Scientist at WWF, Natural Capital and Valuing Nature
derric.pennington@wwfus.org
Borja G. Reguero

Borja G. Reguero

Coastal Engineering Research Fellow
breguero@ucsc.edu

Rafael Schmitt

Senior Scientist
rschmitt@stanford.edu

Jess Silver

Ecosystem Services Analyst
jess.silver@stanford.edu
Emily Soth

Emily J Soth

Software Developer
esoth@stanford.edu

Terry Su

Webmaster
terrysu@stanford.edu

Mary Jane Wilder

Executive Business Administrator
mjwilder@stanford.edu

Stacie Wolny

Senior GIS Analyst
swolny@stanford.edu

Spencer Wood

Senior Scientist
woodsp@stanford.edu

Students

Nfamara Dampha

Graduate Student Researcher
damph002@umn.edu
Kelley Langhans

Kelley Langhans

PhD Candidate
langhans@stanford.edu
Amelia O’Donohue

Amelia O’Donohue

Communications Intern
ameliao@stanford.edu
Talia Trepte

Talia Trepte

Communications Assistant
ttrepte@stanford.edu

Partnership Committee

Gretchen Daily

Gretchen Daily

Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the Natural Capital Project, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University, Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
gdaily@stanford.edu

Chris Field

Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Carl Folke

Carl Folke

Chair of the board and co-founder, Stockholm Resilience Centre

Jessica Hellmann

Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
Melissa Kenney

Melissa Kenney

Associate Director of Knowledge Initiatives, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment
Henrik Österblom

Henrik Österblom

Professor and Science Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Garry Peterson

Garry Peterson

Professor and Head of Subject in Sustainability Science, Stockholm Resilience Centre

Steve Polasky

Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota
polasky@umn.edu
Mary Ruckelshaus

Mary Ruckelshaus

Managing Director
mary.ruckelshaus@stanford.edu
Lynn Scarlett

Lynn Scarlett

Vice President, Policy and Government Relations, The Nature Conservancy

Nik Sekhran

Chief Conservation Officer at the World Wildlife Fund - US

Rebecca Shaw

Chief Scientist, World Wildlife Fund
Hua Zheng

Hua Zheng

Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ouyang Zhiyun

Ouyang Zhiyun

Professor and director, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Stanford Advisory Council

The Advisory Council guides the partnership's center at Stanford, helping to sharpen our strategies for scaling and increasing our engagement across the university’s schools.

Special Advisors

Teresa Beck

Peter Kareiva

Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Founder of the Natural Capital Project

Pamela Matson

Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
Professor, Department of Earth System Science
Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Hal Mooney

Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University

Victor Parker

Managing Director, Spectrum Equity

Taylor Ricketts

Professor and Director of Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont, and Founder of the Natural Capital Project

Barton H. (Buzz) Thompson Jr.

Senior Fellow and Founding Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law

Alumni

Christopher Anderson
Rebecca Goldman Benner
Joey Bernhardt
Kelly Biedenweg
Will Bierbower
Seth Binder
Henry Borrebach
Leah Bremer
Benjamin P. Bryant
Jen Burke
Mike Carey
Nicholas Chaumont
Chris Colvin
Marc Conte
Vu Dang
Adam P. Dixon
Marie Donahue
Jennifer Duggan
Brad Eichelberger
Driss Ennaanay
Joe Faries
Yonas Ghile
Jesse Gourevitch
Greg Guannel
Maike Hamann
Orli Handmaker
Anna Haw
Daniel Karp
Choong-Ki (CK) Kim
Ginger Kowal
Laura Kwong
Martin Lacayo
Suzanne Langridge
Austin Leung
Ruida Li
Joanna Lin
Shan Ma
Matthew Marsik
Emily McKenzie
Guillermo Mendoza
Nathan Mueller
Erik Nelson
Joanna Nelson
Ryan Noe
Michael Papenfus
Victoria Peterson
Kelly Meza Prado
Yi Qi
Carlos Ramirez-Reyes
Roy Remme
Brian Robinson
Lauren Rogers
Manu Sharma
Rich Sharp
Jeffrey Smith
Stacey Solie
Dave Sutherland
Heather Tallis
Christine Tam
Adrian Santiago Tate
Kate Thompson
Jodie Toft
Gregg Verutes
Sergio Maldonado Villanueva
Charlotte Weil
Fattin Wekselman
Katherine Wyatt
Guy Ziv