Alternate Contact
- Alisa Zomer, Program Coordinator/Research Assistant
About Lauren
Lauren Goers Williams is an Associate with the Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI). Her research focuses on promoting good governance of forests in a range of policy and practical contexts, and developing analytical tools for addressing forest governance challenges. She also provides research and strategic guidance to GFI’s civil society partners in Cameroon.
Prior to joining WRI, Lauren received a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she was a 2008 Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and conducted research on forest carbon policy and drivers of tropical deforestation. She holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and French from Wake Forest University.
