Pablo Pacheco

Pablo Pacheco is WWF’s Global Forests Lead Scientist, based in Washington DC. He is a member of the WWF’s Global Science Team and Forest Practice Core Team. He supports the design of strategies, action frameworks and impact monitoring linked to efforts for halting deforestation, enhancing sustainable forest management, and accelerating forest restoration. He participates in several working groups and platforms supporting global forest conservation, sustainable development, and forest governance. He holds a PhD from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, a Msc in Agricultural Economics, and a BA in Sociology. Before joining WWF, he was Principal Scientist and Team Leader at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia and coordinated comparative research on sustainable value chains and investments under the CGIAR Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). His main research areas focus on community forestry, land and forests governance, drivers and dynamics of land use change, landscape transformations, sustainable and resilient livelihoods, inclusive value chains, and area-based conservation. His work has primarily focused on the tropics, mainly in the Amazon and Southeast Asia. He has published extensively in these topics.