Ando Rabearisoa, PhD Student

Ando worked for Conservation International Madagascar for ten (10) years, where she was in charge of Marine Conservation Program Management, Assessment of Social Impacts and Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas and Marine Policy development. Having a background in Environmental Economics, she is a passionate practitioner and highly engaged researcher, convinced that an economic system respectful of social and conservation issues is the key solution for the sustainable development in developing countries. Through her publications in Nature, Science, and PNAS, she aims to find integrated solutions to achieve a social development that promotes natural resources management in biodiversity hotspot countries and also considerably alleviates poverty.