Margot Wood, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Nature-Positive Science, Conservation Science & Partnerships Team
She and her team are experts on the Science-Based Targets for Nature; the science behind corporate nature commitments; nature-positive sustainable supply chains; tropical deforestation; tropical commodity production; geospatial science; and Conservation International science strategies.
Margot has expertise in forests, land-use change, biodiversity, global supply chains, deforestation and global ecosystem thresholds. Margot's work focuses on how to apply these topics to private-sector and policy actions to support nature-positive transitions. Her work integrates nature and science into various partnerships, including through collaborations with consumer goods companies, fashion-sector companies, and coffee, cocoa and palm oil companies. A key component to Margot's work is understanding how commitments to, and actions on, nature, forests and ecosystems can best support thriving production and conservation landscapes.
Before joining Conservation International, Margot worked for the USGS, USDA, and as a visiting professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. Margot received her Ph.D. in wildlife sciences and applied biodiversity science at Texas A&M University, and her bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California, Davis.
She and her team are experts on the Science-Based Targets for Nature; the science behind corporate nature commitments; nature-positive sustainable supply chains; tropical deforestation; tropical commodity production; geospatial science; and Conservation International science strategies.
Margot has expertise in forests, land-use change, biodiversity, global supply chains, deforestation and global ecosystem thresholds. Margot's work focuses on how to apply these topics to private-sector and policy actions to support nature-positive transitions. Her work integrates nature and science into various partnerships, including through collaborations with consumer goods companies, fashion-sector companies, and coffee, cocoa and palm oil companies. A key component to Margot's work is understanding how commitments to, and actions on, nature, forests and ecosystems can best support thriving production and conservation landscapes.
Before joining Conservation International, Margot worked for the USGS, USDA, and as a visiting professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. Margot received her Ph.D. in wildlife sciences and applied biodiversity science at Texas A&M University, and her bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California, Davis.