Full Name
Emily Averna
Job Title
Associate Director, Landscape Restoration
Company/Affiliation
Bezos Earth Fund
Speaker Bio
Emily is the Associate Director for Land Restoration at the Bezos Earth Fund, where she develops strategies and builds partnerships to deliver climate benefits, economic growth, and biodiversity protection at scale. Together with the Managing Director of Nature Solutions, she manages the Earth Fund’s $1 billion landscape restoration portfolio. With an initial focus on Africa and the U.S., restoration efforts include planting trees on degraded landscapes, revitalizing grasslands, and integrating trees into farmland. Before joining the Earth Fund, Emily spent nearly a decade at the World Resources Institute (WRI), working to advance global sustainable development.
Emily Averna