Dr. Elizabeth Losos

Dr. Elizabeth Losos is a Senior Fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and a FPI-Bard College Fellow. She has been exploring policies to mitigate the environmental and social risks from large-scale infrastructure projects in the transportation and energy sectors. Her current work focuses on promoting the development of sustainable infrastructure as a critical element of the post-COVID-19 recovery.

Dr. Losos formerly was president and CEO of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a global consortium of universities and research institutes with the mission of promoting education, research and the responsible use of natural resources in the tropics. She directed the organization’s four research stations in Costa Rica and South Africa as well as undergraduate, graduate and professional field-based educational programmes in tropical biology, global health and environmental policy. Prior to her tenure with OTS, she was the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Tropical Forest Science, a global network of large-scale forest research plots.

Dr. Losos holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University, an MA in Public Administration and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and a BSc from Harvard University.