Alex Dehgan

Alex Dehgan

Alex Dehgan is the CEO at Conservation X Labs. He is also a professor of the practice of sustainability at Arizona State University. Alex previously served as the chief scientist of USAID, and created the agency’s DARPA for Development, and worked in multiple positions in the Office of the Secretary at the State Department. Alex was also the founding country director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan program and helped create Afghanistan’s first national park.

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Opinion: If the US is serious about climate change, USAID should be too

Opinion: If the US is serious about climate change, USAID should be too

almost 4 years ago // Climate change

USAID has committed to operational carbon neutrality, but it still needs to do so in its programming, write Alex Dehgan, Ilya Fischhoff, and Chad Gallinat in this Earth Day opinion piece. Here's a road map to carbon neutrality for the agency.