Katherine Hall

Katherine is an environmental policy specialist with 15+ years’ experience working with local environmental NGOs, global development organizations, UN agencies, and universities with a focus on Central Asia. She has previously worked with UNDP in Kyrgyzstan, with UNEP in Afghanistan, and led UNEP’s regional air quality program in Central Asia. Katherine founded the NGO ‘MoveGreen’ in Kyrgyzstan, whose director went on to receive the UN ‘Champion of the Earth’ award in 2021. Katherine co-chairs the Central Asian Conservation Network (CACN), and sits in the Nature Foundation (Kyrgyzstan), one of the CACN’s two hosting organizations. She is a board member of Organization Rewild (Afghanistan), supports the AEWA/European Goose Management Platform’s Taiga Bean Goose Task Force, and is a member of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. Katherine is undertaking a PhD in conservation governance at the University of Eastern Finland.