Christina McCain

Senior Manager – Latin American Climate Initiative

Areas of expertise: Climate change, REDD, Mexico

Work

Christina McCain, Ph.D., heads EDF's climate change initiatives in Mexico. She is a formally trained tropical forest ecologist and works as a policy expert on tropical forests and climate change, with an emphasis on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+).

As director of EDF's Mexico climate program, Christina works directly with government officials and partners at leading civil society organizations in Mexico to develop strategies for the effective implementation of REDD+ and other climate mitigation strategies at both national and state levels.

Christina's areas of expertise include tropical forest ecology, climate change and tropical forest policy, Latin America, and international trade and environmental policy.

Background

Before joining EDF, Christina served as a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science. She conducted her doctoral studies in Amazonian Brazil and earned her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Miami in 2005.

She holds a B.S. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from the University of Texas at Austin.