Our agriculture experts

  • Anderson, Katie
    Senior Director, Business, Food and Forests

    Areas of expertise: Corporate sustainability strategy, agricultural supply chain sustainability, agricultural methane, deforestation, jurisdictional approaches

  • Beaulac, Leah
    Manager, Climate Resilient Food and Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable water management; global food security and livelihoods for frontline producers; natural disasters and climate change; conflict, migration and refugee Responses; market linkages

  • Chow, Jennifer
    Senior Director, Climate-Resilient Food Systems

    Areas of expertise:

  • Eagle, Alison
    Senior Scientist, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise: Nutrient cycling, crop production, soil science, ecosystem services, agricultural sustainability, climate change, land use, and natural resource economics.

  • Gauthier, Vincent
    Manager, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise:

  • Groosman, Britt
    Vice President, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise: Economics and environmental markets, agriculture, conservation, global climate policy and carbon markets

  • Hall, Maurice
    Senior Advisor, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water management, water policy, hydrology, water resources engineering, aquatic ecosystems, sustainable agriculture, irrigated agriculture, water quality, natural infrastructure, civil engineering

  • Hayden, Ann
    Vice President, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water policy, adaptive management and watershed resilience, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, environmental markets, riparian and wetland habitat, river and delta systems.

  • Hoang, Mai Lan
    Climate-Smart Agriculture Research Analyst

    Areas of expertise: Data analysis, data visualization, data-driven communication, agriculture supply chain sustainability, corporate sustainability, forest-risk commodities

  • Holst, Eric
    Associate Vice President, Natural Climate Solutions

    Areas of expertise: Conservation solutions, wildlife policy, endangered species, agriculture, mitigation, forestry

  • Hutson, Andrew
    Associate Vice President, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise: Environmental policy, agriculture, conservation, supply chains, strategy, management, stakeholder engagement

  • Jaeger, Marika
    Lokey Fellow, Climate Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise: Climate adaptation and resilience, social-ecological systems, sustainable agriculture

  • Kaiser, Dan
    Director of Agriculture Innovation, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise: Agriculture technology, ecosystem service markets, biodiversity, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), agriculture sustainability.

  • Kapate, Vrashabh
    Manager, Dairy Industry, EDF+Business

    Areas of expertise: Dairy, Corporate Partnerships, Developing Economies

  • Lavallee, Jocelyn
    Agricultural Soil Carbon Scientist

    Areas of expertise: soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, carbon sequestration, natural climate solutions

  • Lentz, Andrew
    Director of Federal Affairs, Agriculture Policy

    Areas of expertise: Agriculture and food policy, climate-smart agriculture, diversity, equity and inclusion, government relations, political strategy, international diplomacy, coalition building

  • McDow, Will
    Senior Director, Climate Resilient Watersheds

    Areas of expertise: environmental markets, mitigation policy, working lands conservation

  • McLaughlin, David
    Senior Economist

    Areas of expertise: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Econometrics, Causal Inference, Data Science

  • McLellan, Eileen
    Lead Senior Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Water quality, watershed protection and restoration, ecological resilience, land use planning, rural development, environmental policy

  • Monast, Maggie
    Senior Director, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    Areas of expertise: Environmental economics and policy, agricultural finance and sustainability, agricultural supply chains