Ms. Aurelie Camille Shapiro

Aurélie received a Master's inEnvironmental Management from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment in 2001. She spent the next 6 years with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Special Projects Office, as a coral reef remote sensing specialist, and joined the Conservation Science Program at WWF-US in 2007. In 2010 she moved to Germany to lead the development of a national forest carbon map for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) derived from airborne LiDAR and satellite imagery. She has stayed in Berlin to strategically manage WWF's remote sensing efforts from the WWF-Germany headquarters. In 2021 she became Chief Technical Advisor for a global project on deforestation, degradation and drivers for the Food and Agriculture Organizion of the United Nations (FAO). At the same time, Aurélie is working towards her phD on the topic of forest degradation with the Geomatics Laboratory at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.