Patricia Mupeta-Muyamwa
Dr. Patricia Mupeta-Muyamwa is a natural resource governance specialist with twenty-five years of experience in natural resource governance, human rights, environmental and social safeguards, indigenous & community-led conservation, protected area management, and rural development.
She has worked for The Nature Conservancy https://www.nature.org/en-us/ since 2011. She currently works for The Nature Conservancy, as the Global Director of Human Rights in Conservation and was previously TNC’s Africa Indigenous Landscapes Strategy Director. The Indigenous Landscape program supports communities in east, central, and southern Africa with land and resource rights, builds their leadership capacity, and creates economic opportunities for improved livelihoods. Patricia spearheaded a leadership program (the African Conservation Leadership Network) https://africanconservationleaders.org/, a partnership between TNC and Maliasili Initiative that supports African conservation organizations’ leadership development.
As the Global Director of Human Rights in Conservation, Patricia develops and integrates human rights and safeguards principles and best practices into TNC's conservation programs and strategies.
Patricia obtained a doctorate from the University of Florida, School of Natural Resources and Environment in 2012. Her research examined factors that lead to improved local democratic governance in community conservation programs in Botswana and Zambia.