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Dr. John Matthews (WWF-US)

John Matthews attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a degree in cultural anthropology in 1990. For the next twelve years, he worked in the publishing industry for a variety of companies, primarily as an editor and writer. Having seen places he knew well as a child become rapidly degraded, John decided to leave publishing and spent two years taking undergraduate biology courses, then enrolling in the ecology, evolution, and behavior PhD program at the University of Texas in 2002. Graduating in 2007, his dissertation work focused on how aquatic insects and migratory species would be impacted by climate change. During graduate school, John consulted and collaborated with a variety of researchers, agencies, NGOs, and landowners on conservation and climate change issues. John’s work with WWF focuses on developing and implementing strategies for global freshwater ecosystems to adapt and build resilience to the current period of climate shifts.

Anna Forslund (WWF-Sweden)

Anna Forslund graduated from Uppsala University in Sweden in 1998, where she focused her Master’s dissertation on local communities’ use of natural resources in the Brazilian part of the Amazon. After graduating from Uppsala University, Anna worked as a research assistant in the Swedish mountain region exploring the impacts of reindeer grazing on biodiversity and vegetation. Anna joined WWF in 2000 and holds a position as a Water Adviser. She has gained a broad range of experience on different freshwater topics, e.g. river dolphin conservation, water and agriculture, improving legal frameworks and corporate water engagement.  Her work today focuses on supporting programme development on environmental flows, climate change adaptation, water footprint and cotton globally. She is on the Steering Committee for the Global Environmental Flows Network and supports the Swedish Water House work on environmental flows and climate change adaption, having served as editor and writer of recent publications on these subjects.

Judy Oglethorpe (WWF-US)

Judy Oglethorpe is Managing Director of the People and Conservation program in WWF-US, where she works on several development issues at the nexus with environment including health, population, livelihoods, conflict and security. She plays a coordinating role in WWF-US’s climate adaptation efforts. Previously she was Executive Director of the Biodiversity Support Program, a USAID-funded consortium of WWF, The Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute, where she developed a project that identified adverse impacts of armed conflict on the environment, and ways to mitigate them. She has 14 years of experience in Southern and Eastern Africa. Her work in Africa focused on biodiversity; forest and wildlife conservation; community-based natural resource management; ecotourism development; environmental impact assessment; institutional development and training; conflict resolution; and project development and management. She has a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the University of London and a bachelor’s degree in Ecological Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Eliot Levine (WWF-US)

Eliot Levine is a Program Officer with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington DC. He works on two different, but often overlapping themes: Capacity Building and Climate Change Adaptation. Eliot runs WWF’s Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fund, a program developed to advance the role of science in conservation. He also is part of a team at WWF focused on developing adaptation strategies for freshwater ecosystems. Prior to working at WWF he worked with the United Nations, analyzing transaction costs of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, and the Colorado Environmental Coalition on issues of “Smart” growth. He holds a Masters of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelors of Arts in Environmental Studies from Penn State University.