WWF Experts
Judy Oglethorpe
Judy Oglethorpe
Managing Director, Climate Adaptation
Education
- BSc Ecological Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
- MSc Environmental Management, University of London
Areas of Expertise
- Community conservation
- Climate adaptation
- Population Health Environment
"Climate change is happening. We urgently need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help people and nature adapt to change – the sooner we act, the lower the impact for our children’s world."
About Judy Oglethorpe:
Judy has played several roles in WWF over the last ten years. She is currently directing WWF’s Climate Adaptation program, and specifically focusing her own work on community adaptation to climate change. Previously she directed WWF’s People and Conservation, Ecoregion Support, and Conservation Strategies Units. She ran WWF’s population-health-environment program for five years, worked on livelihoods and conflict/security, and supported development of large-scale conservation approaches. Much of her work focuses in the developing world, working to promote environmentally sound development for communities living in remote, high biodiversity areas where local people are often among the poorest and underserved in their countries.
Before Judy came to the U.S. she roamed around Southern and East Africa for 14 years, working in Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi and Kenya. One of her best jobs in Africa was being paid to hike all the protected areas in Malawi, planning ecotourism developments.
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