Nikola Alexandre

Background

About Nikola Alexandre

Nikola (he/they) is Vice-President for Nature Fund Advisory at Conservation International, where he is leading a global team dedicated to increasing the flow of financing to high-quality nature-based solution (NbS) projects around the world. He is also the co-founder, Stewardship Lead, and Board Treasurer of the Shelterwood Collective, a land justice and forest restoration nonprofit focused on demonstrating community centered approaches to land stewardship. Nikola was nominated for the 2020 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award for his work, and is a 2024 Out100 awardee. Previously, Nikola founded and lead Conservation International's Restoration Program, where he facilitated a 20-country wide organizational effort to scale-up the restoration of the world's degraded ecosystems. Nikola holds a joint Master of Forestry and Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Environment and the Yale School of Management. He worked as an assistant forest manager for the Yale School Forests, developed inclusive economic development policy tools for city governments, and was the lead author on the 2016 Environmental Performance Index agriculture section. Nikola obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Vassar College and has lived in France, Panama, Brazil, and the US. He currently resides at Shelterwood, on unceded Kashia territories in California, USA.