Dr. Ashley L. Camhi
Director of Innovative Finance, Forests and Climate Change
Ashley L. Camhi’s career and educational passion have centered on the economic incentives for conservation. She has spent much of her career at multilateral banks supporting conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean before completing her Ph.D. in Biology and Society at Arizona State University. Her research focused on farmer decision making to enroll land into conservation programs and the subsequent impact on water quality. Most recently Ashley spent two years in the private sector focused on forest carbon and how to utilize jurisdictional REDD+ to halt tropical deforestation. Ashley also founded and led a sustainability nonprofit where she enabled impact driven projects to address natural resource issues such as urban forestry and food security for low-income communities. In addition, Ashley has a Master of Arts in International Environmental Policy from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Vassar College.
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