Elizabeth Kroger
Marine Conservation Researcher and Practitioner
Elizabeth Kroger
Marine Conservation Researcher and Practitioner
About
I am a marine conservation professional working at the intersection of finance, policy, and science to advance sustainable fisheries, effective marine protected area management, coastal ecosystem restoration, social equity, and the blue economy.
I have experience leading and conducting end-to-end applied research, including stakeholder interviews and marine fieldwork, quantitative and qualitative data analysis in R and ArcGIS, and translating findings into policy, operational, and business recommendations. I have managed multi-country projects, budgets, timelines, logistics, partnerships, and teams.
I am fluent in Spanish and English and proficient in French, enabling me to work directly with scientists, governments, fishers, Indigenous and coastal communities, NGOs, businesses, and conservation finance institutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S.
I received a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, where my master’s project piloted a bycatch reduction strategy in Mexican small-scale fisheries with a sustainable seafood startup, and I worked at Duke’s Nicholas Institute evaluating the social and conservation impacts of debt-for-nature swaps. I additionally hold a B.A. from Middlebury College in Conservation Biology, where my thesis addressed monitoring gaps in Caribbean coral restoration and I worked as a Field Research Coordinator in the Onja Lab assessing the socio-ecological effects of marine protected areas in Madagascar.