Rosa Lemos de Sá, Ph.D.
Initiative Lead
Rosa Lemos da Sá is the Initiative lead for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Rosa comes to the Foundation with extensive leadership experience and expertise in the field of environmental conservation, which has allowed her to play a critical and integral role in the implementation and organization of multi-national conservation projects in the Andes-Amazon region. Most recently, Rosa was the Conservation Director at World Wildlife Fund – Brasil, where she was responsible for the coordination of 50 conservation professionals, acting in the Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal and Cerrado regions of Brazil. Prior to holding that position, Rosa served as the Protected Area Program Coordinator at WWF – Brasil, and participated in the negotiation and project development of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program - ARPA, in partnership with the Ministry of Environment, The World Bank, the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund-Funbio, and the German Cooperation Agency-KfW. Rosa has worked in the conservation field for over 20 years and is the author of numerous publications in a variety of scientific journals.
Rosa holds a Ph.D. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Florida, Gainesville, a M.S. in Ecology from the Universidade de Brasília, D.F., Brazil, and a B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, WI.