Eva Garen
Program Director, Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative
Dr. Eva Garen has spent almost twenty years working on the social aspects of conservation and development in the tropics. Prior to becoming the Director of ELTI in 2012, Eva was a technical advisor on the social aspects of REDD+ with Conservation International's Science and Knowledge Division. Eva also worked with USAID’s Forestry and Biodiversity Teams in Washington D.C. as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For her postdoctoral research in Panama at STRI, she worked with cattle ranchers and smallholders on issues of native species reforestation and land restoration in human-dominated landscapes. Eva completed her M.E.S. and Ph.D. at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with a concentration in social ecology.