Sacha Spector

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Sacha Spector is program director for the environment at the Doris Duke Foundation, where he oversees the foundation’s strategy, grantmaking, and external partnerships on natural climate solutions, land conservation, and inclusive conservation.  Previously, he held positions as director of conservation science at Scenic Hudson, manager of the Invertebrate Conservation Program at the American Museum of Natural History and adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. He has a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Connecticut and a Bachelor of Science in environmental biology from Yale University

I’m driven by the vision of a nature-positive, carbon-negative, and justice-forward future, and the scientific consensus that restoring forests to the landscape is a huge part of making that a reality. DDF's new Natural Climate Solutions initiative seeks to foment a "forest moonshot" in the US that includes over 100 million acres of reforestation by 2050.