Dr Amy DUCHELLE

Senior Forestry Officer; Team Leader Climate Change & Resilience, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

Amy Duchelle serves as Team Leader of Climate Change and Resilience in the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. She works with a diverse set of partners to protect and restore forests, and enhance the rights, livelihoods and adaptive capacities of local people. Amy came to FAO from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia where she led the Climate Change, Energy and Low Carbon Development Team, and before that was based in Brazil. She has extensive experience on forestry and climate change issues, including through her leadership of CIFOR's Global Comparative Study on REDD+. She holds a PhD in Tropical Forestry from the University of Florida and has written over 80 scientific publications on forests, climate change, conservation and sustainable development. She is part of the Science Panel for the Amazon.