Jamie is responsible for overall communications and knowledge management at LRD, including strategic communications, writing, editing, reporting, website and online development, social media, and communications and knowledge management guidance, training and programming.

Jamie has over 15 years of senior level communications experience in biodiversity conservation, protected areas, climate change and sustainable development working for international NGOs and the United Nations mainly in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.  He has served in communications roles for the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), USAID, IUCN, WWF and the International Gorilla Conservation Programme.  Jamie has a Masters degree in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA and a Bachelors degree in Communications from Clarion University, USA.