Tracey Osborne

Tracey Osborne is the Founding Director of the University of California Center for Climate Justice and Associate Professor and Presidential Chair in the Management of Complex Systems Department at the UC Merced. Tracey is an interdisciplinary and engaged scholar whose research focuses on the social, ecological and political economic dimensions of climate change mitigation in tropical forests. She is an expert on climate finance, carbon markets, global environmental governance, and climate justice, with particular attention to the role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Natural Climate Solutions.

Tracey is an advisor to the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, X Prize for Biodiversity Conservation and a member of the Global Climate Leadership Council, a body that advises the UC President on Climate Action. She has published articles in high impact environmental journals and received her PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.