Yifan (Flora) He

Yifan (Flora) He is an environmental politics scholar and assistant professor at Georgetown University. She received her PhD from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on land and natural resource governance in the Global South. She combines causal inference methods, geospatial and Earth Observation/Remote Sensing data, and qualitative interviews to advance knowledge in three areas: the distributive politics of environmental policy implementation; the social consequences of environmental degradation; and global conservation policy.

Previously, she was a social scientist at Conservation International, where she studied the diversity and dynamics of global area-based conservation governance systems.