Phoebe Barnard works across the full gamut of science, policy, planning, management and communications in the fields of climate risk and resilience, global change ecology, ecosystem and population ecology, biodiversity conservation, and societal futures. She is campaign advisor for the Global Evergreening Alliance, co-founder and convenor of the Global Restoration Collaborative, founding CEO and advisor to the Stable Planet Alliance, documentary film producer with Transmediavision USA, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. She is based in Mt Vernon, WA.

Growing up in coastal Massachusetts, with storm surges flooding out two homes in childhood and a volcanic eruption burying her parents’ retirement home on the island of Montserrat, Phoebe may have been destined to work on increasing ecosystem resilience and reducing risks from natural hazards. She worked overseas for 34 years for the governments of Namibia and South Africa, founding and leading transformative national programs on climate change and biodiversity (marine, terrestrial and freshwater), and leading international academic research programs. She has mentored and supervised many dozens of young professionals globally and across Africa, including postdocs and MSc/PhD students and undergrads at the Universities of Cape Town, Witwatersrand and Namibia, and is co-designing and co-building global restoration initiatives with youth leaders.

Phoebe has worked at global, hemispheric, continental, national, bioregional and local scales, both in interdisciplinary science and in public policy, and has been awarded for team-building and impact.  She holds a BSc (Hons) in biology from Acadia University (Canada), MSc in zoology from University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and PhD in animal ecology from Uppsala University (Sweden).  In what passes as spare time, she works to accelerate the speed and increase collaboration in climate risk and resilience, and is a trainee filmmaker and co-producer on big issues with her groovy English husband.