{"id":342,"date":"2026-08-15T05:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2026-08-15T05:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:55:17","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/?page_id=342","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lede wp-block-paragraph\">I have spent over a decade working on a single question in different forms: how do we keep wild landscapes functioning while the people who share them thrive?<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That question has taken me from field sites to regional offices, from ranger training rooms to donor boardrooms, and from ground counts to satellite time-series. My background is in [degree, institution]. Since then I have [career arc: key employers, regions, step-changes in responsibility]. Today I lead [current role and scope], covering [countries and landscapes].<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group card\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evidence first<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservation decisions made without data are expensive guesses. I design research that answers the question a manager is actually facing, not the one that is easiest to publish.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group card\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technology in service of the field<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satellite imagery, AI and spatial modelling are only useful when a ranger, warden or planner can act on the output. I build systems people actually use.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group card\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Institutions outlast projects<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A trained team and a working monitoring system deliver long after the grant closes. Capacity building is not an add-on to my work; it is the point of it.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why this work<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Two or three sentences: what drew you to conservation, a formative field experience, what you do when you are not working. This is the paragraph that makes people remember you, so write it in your own voice.]<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Affiliations<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[IUCN specialist group memberships]<\/li><li>[Professional societies]<\/li><li>[Awards and fellowships]<\/li><li>[Editorial or advisory roles]<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservation scientist, regional programme leader, geospatial and climate solutions specialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggreychemwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}