Becky Chaplin-Kramer
Global Biodiversity Lead Scientist, Global Science
As Global Biodiversity Lead Scientist, Becky works across the WWF Network and with external partners to advance the science and implementation of conservation strategies to support biodiversity and its myriad contributions to people's well-being. She is also director of the Collaborative Network on Valuing Earth Information (CONVEI), a NASA-funded partnership aimed at assessing and enhancing the societal benefits of satellites and geospatial science.
Prior to WWF, Becky was a lead scientist for the Natural Capital Alliance (NatCap), a transdisciplinary partnership WWF co-founded with Stanford University, University of Minnesota, and The Nature Conservancy. In her work affiliated with both of NatCap's university partners, Becky led research on global ecosystem service assessment, linking earth observations and ecosystem service modeling, and accelerating the development of products and tools to integrate the values of nature into decision-making. Throughout her career, Becky has led ecosystem service assessments, scenario development and targeting exercises working with government, NGOs and companies around the world, from local to national to global scales. Her work has been published in top journals such as Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Becky is WWF's focal point for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and was a Coordinating Lead Author on the IPBES Values Assessment and a Lead Author on the IPBES Nexus Assessment. She is now the co-chair of the upcoming IPBES Global Assessment.
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Education
- PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from University of California, Berkeley
- MS in Earth Systems from Stanford University
- BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University