Ms Kate NEWMAN

Vice President, Sustainable Infrastructure and Public Sector Initiatives, WWF

As World Wildlife Fund (WWF) vice president, sustainable infrastructure and public sector initiatives, Kate specializes in policy development and large-scale conservation planning focused on nature-positive infrastructure.  For over 30 years with WWF, Kate has worked with colleagues around the world to integrate conservation science into socio-economic development through community-based conservation, protected area management, conservation finance, terrestrial/marine ecoregion planning, and green/blue economy policies.  Pre-WWF, she supported civil society organizations in farm-to-market road, mini-hydropower, and rural clinic development with the US Agency for International Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Anthropology BA, University of Virginia and environmental management MSc, University of London.