Kathryn Saterson is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Solutions at Duke University. She also has an appointment as a Research Scientist in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke. Prior to moving to Duke in August of 2001, she was the Director of the Environmental Management Center at the Brandywine Conservancy working on local land conservation in Pennsylvania. From 1991-1999 Saterson was the Executive Director of the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP), a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Resources Institute. BSP used funds from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to support biodiversity conservation programs in developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Saterson’s other professional experience includes five years with USAID, including over two years based in Thailand, and a Congressional Science Fellowship with the House Subcommittee on Public Lands. Saterson was elected Secretary to the Board of Governors for the Society for Conservation Biology for 2002 – 2005. She received her Ph.D. in Biology, and MS in botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and BA from Williams College.

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