Conservation Science

Emily McKenzie
© Emily McKenzie

Emily manages the Natural Capital Project (NatCap) at WWF-US and leads NatCap's work at the science-policy interface. Emily’s research interests include environmental valuation, and policies and payments for ecosystem services.  She has applied environmental economics to important policy questions in more than sixteen countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Pacific, Caribbean and Latin America.  Her research has led to nature's benefits being considered in decisions around land use planning in Indonesia, black pearl farming in the Cook Islands, aggregates extraction in the Marshall Islands, coral reef protection in Bermuda and forest biodiversity in Montserrat.  She has built several environmental economics programs – leading research, developing tools, building capacity and providing technical and policy advice.  She previously worked as Environmental Economics Advisor to the UK government, based at the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.  In 2003-2005, she was awarded an Overseas Development Institute Fellowship as the Resource Economist at the Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji. Emily received a Masters Degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Cambridge University.

Email: emily.mckenzie@wwfus.org