Yuta Masuda

Yuta Masuda is the Director of Science at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, where he advances strategy development, identification, and cultivation of science priorities in ocean health, terrestrial conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation for the foundation's Environment Program. Yuta serves on the boards of Oceans 5 and the Shark Conservation Fund, and also serves as a member of the the Food Systems Countdown Initiative and the Science Council for Conservation International. Prior to joining the foundation, Yuta was a Senior Sustainable Development and Behavioral Scientist at The Nature Conservancy. His work at the Conservancy examined how policies advancing conservation and sustainable development goals impact human well-being and environmental outcomes. He has published over fifty publications in outlets such as Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Global Environmental Change, Lancet Planetary Health, Environmental Research Letters, Conservation Letters, Land Use Policy, One Earth, and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Georgia.