Doug Boucher

Doug Boucher joined the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in July 2007 as Director of its Tropical Forests and Climate Initiative, and retired in 2016.  Doug has a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan (1979) and a B.A. in ecology and history from Yale University (1971). He came to UCS from Hood College where he was a professor of biology for more than a decade; prior to that, he served as the Washington Office Director of Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT), directed the Western Hemisphere Cooperation Program at the AAAS, and taught at the University of Quebec and McGill University. He has published about 120 articles in scientific journals and books, particularly on ecology, climate and natural resource issues.