Dr Susan Chomba is the Director of Vital Landscapes at the World Resources Institute (WRI) leading the institution’s work on forests, food and people which includes forest landscape restoration, sustainable agriculture/food systems and thriving rural livelihoods in Africa. She is a scientist with over 15 years of research and development experience in Africa. She previously led the Regreening Africa Programme at CIFOR-ICRAF, whose primary objective was to restore degraded lands in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, and Somalia in East Africa, Niger, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana in West Africa. Susan has extensive experience in Africa having worked in more than 20 countries in East, West, and Southern Africa. She was named one of Global Landscape Forum (GLF)’s 16 Women Restoring the Earth in 2021. In 2021, Susan was also appointed as UN high level global ambassador for the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience. She is on the scientific advisory committee of the UN Food Systems Summit.