Emily McKenzie

Emily McKenzie is Chief Adviser on Economics and Sustainability for the WWF Global Science Team. She co-leads a project in the Arctic called IDEEAS (Informing Decisions for Ecological and Economic Arctic Sustainability). Emily is on the Leadership Team of the Natural Capital Project, a decade-long partnership of WWF, Stanford University, the University of Minnesota and The Nature Conservancy. She is on the Advisory Panel of the Natural Capital Coalition with over 250 member organisations working to include natural capital in business decision making. She has worked in over twenty countries helping governments and businesses to improve decision-making, and has published on the science-policy interface, scenarios and ecological economics.  Prior to working with WWF, Emily worked as an economist in the United Kingdom, the South Pacific and Caribbean, advising the UK Government, UK Overseas Territories and Pacific Island nations on the use of economics for environmental policy and conservation.  Emily received Master’s degrees in International Policy Studies from Stanford University and Economics from Cambridge University.