Biographical Information

Charlotte was born in Switzerland and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a BA in History. Her senior thesis on the Tibetan guerilla movement won the Asian History Prize. She also earned a Master’s in International Relations at the University of Cape Town South Africa, where she was teaching quantitative literacy to university students via a Princeton fellowship. Before arriving at Stanford, Charlotte lived and worked in Africa for six and a half years. Most recently she worked in UNEP’s Division of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) based in Nairobi Kenya, developing and managing an international portfolio of projects addressing global biodiversity concerns.

Research Interests

Charlotte comes to IPER with an interest in the economics of conservation. She’s keen to explore several aspects of this dynamic field, including the challenge of generating sustainable and equitable financing for conservation as well as the prospects for incorporating conservation costs into planning frameworks. Most of all, she would like to accelerate the application of experimental evaluations to conservation programs believing that the evidence generated by such evaluations about the success or failure of conservation investments is essential for good policy-making.