Elizabeth Goldman

As a Senior Manager on ART’s Technical Team, Elizabeth (Liz) reviews and supports submissions from jurisdictions seeking to have their emission reductions and removals certified under TREES. Liz brings 15 years of experience in forest monitoring and data science, with expertise in GIS, remote sensing, and communicating complex data to diverse audiences.

Prior to joining the ART Secretariat, Liz spent over a decade at the World Resources Institute, most recently as Co-Director of Global Forest Watch and a Senior Research Manager. She led the annual release of global tree cover loss statistics and represented Global Forest Watch in international engagements with governments and donors. At WRI, Liz also oversaw research partnerships, supervised a team of researchers, conducted original research, and managed the Global Forest Review, WRI’s living report tracking the state of the world’s forests and progress toward international forest commitments. Her work has been published in leading scientific journals on forest monitoring and land-use change. Earlier in her career, Liz conducted tropical forest fieldwork in Panama for a long-term Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute study on mangrove ecology. She holds a Master of City Planning, with a focus on conservation planning, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from UC Berkeley. She is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP).