Rebecca Shaw

Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, Global Science

Rebecca Shaw
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Dr. Rebecca Shaw is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President at WWF. She works with experts around the world to identify the emerging challenges to WWF’s mission and advance scientific inquiry to develop strategic solutions to those challenges. She leads WWF’s Global Science team whose research agenda informs WWF’s global conservation framework and identifies tools critical to achieving WWF’s goals. She has been published widely in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Science and Nature and is the recipient of numerous awards for her academic and non-academic work. She was also a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report focused on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.

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How Agriculture Hastens Species Extinction

60 Minutes Overtime interviews Rebecca Shaw on what’s fueling the sixth mass extinction and its devastating impact on all of us.

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Title

Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President

Education

  • Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley
  • M.A. in environmental policy from the University of California, Berkeley
  • BASc in biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara

Areas of Expertise

  • Conservation vision and strategy development
  • Climate change impact, adaptation, and vulnerability
  • Land, water, and wildlife conservation
  • Species biodiversity