Dr. Tom Evans is Senior Director for Forest Conservation in the Forests and Climate Change team. He has worked with WCS for nearly 20 years, both in the field and in global policy and science roles. He has a particular interest in mobilizing climate finance, policy ambition and on-the-ground action to secure the world's remaining high integrity forests. In this context, he coordinates the Forests for Life partnership and plays a key role in developing an innovative financing mechanism called HIFOR. He was instrumental in establishing a major voluntary market REDD+ project in Cambodia and supporting one of the first Indigenous communities in that country to obtain a collective land title.

Tom holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, UK, where he studied the ecology and economics of non-timber forest product use in Lao PDR.