Brittany Williams is a senior program officer on the WWF-US Forest team, where she supports the Forest and Climate Solutions and Congo Basin initiatives. In this capacity, she serves as the Madagascar landscape technical lead for WWF’s Nature-Based Solutions Origination Platform (NbS-OP). She also oversees the development of WWF’s approach to fair and equitable benefit sharing and manages US government grants to enhance conservation efforts in the Dzanga-Sangha Protected Area Complex in the Central African Republic.
Brittany previously led the Forest team’s policy and advocacy efforts related to forest protection and nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate change. This included activities associated with the annual United Nations climate change conference and coauthoring WWF’s guidance for NbS, Beyond Carbon Credits: A Blueprint for High-Quality Interventions that Work for People, Nature and Climate.
Before joining WWF, Brittany worked on agricultural projects with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. These projects ranged from improving farm-to-export traceability for Haiti’s mango sector to providing mobile money microloans to small farmers in Kenya.
She holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Brittany has lived in France, Guinea, Barbados, and Guatemala and speaks English, French, and Spanish.
