Patricia Zurita

Patricia Zurita "manages the Conservation Stewards Program, a 5 year initiative to test and implement conservation agreements, with Conservation International since 2005. Before that Patricia was leading the Policy and Economics Unit of the Andes Program with CI leading the impelmentation of conservation agreements and other incentive and economic initiatives in the 5 Andean countries. From 2000 until 2002 she worked with the Economics Program of the World Resources Institute assessing and building markets for nutrient reduction in the US as well as assessing market opportunities for watershed protection payment systems in Panama and Viet Nam. Patricia holds a Master on Environmental Management from Duke University." (2008)

In 2010 she became the executive director of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund.