Currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Forestry of the University of
British Columbia, Reem Hajjar has an MA in Conservation Biology from Columbia
University, and a BSc in Biology from McGill. Her research keeps taking her
back to Latin America, and soon she'll be studying community forest
management in Brazil, Bolivia and Mexico. She has recently worked as a
consultant with the "Diversity for Livelihoods" programme at the
International Plant Genetics Resources Institute (IPGRI) in Rome, Italy, and
speaks English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.