Experts & Staff

WRI brings together nearly 1,900 staff and experts who are leaders in their fields. Their work spans topics such as food and land use, energy, cities, economics, finance, governance and more. Our staff and researchers work globally and in 12 focus countries to meet people’s essential needs, to protect and restore nature, and to stabilize the climate and build resilient communities.

Contact our media team to arrange an interview with any of our experts.

Program Experts & Staff

Alyssa Barrett

Senior Product Strategist, Land & Carbon Lab, Data Lab

Tatiana Bogdanova

Product Specialist, Global Forest Watch, Data Lab

Tatiana Bogdanova

Grace Canfield

Senior Product Manager, Data Lab

Grace Canfield.

Nathan Curtis

Lead Product Engineer, TerraMatch

Nathan Curtis.

Kendie Kenmoe

Forest Atlas Technical Manager, Data Lab

Solomon Negusse

API Software Engineer, Data Lab

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Maanas Nukala

Data Operations Engineer, Data Lab

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Teresa Schofield

Product Manager, Global Forest Watch, Data Lab

Noel Smyth

Head of Product, Data Lab

Noel Smyth

Hannah Sommers-Thaler

Senior Product Manager, Global Forest Watch Pro, Data Lab

Hannah Sommers-Thaler

Colin Stief

Senior Product Manager, Global Forest Watch, Data Lab

Justin Terry

Senior Data Engineer, Data Lab

Justin Terry
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