Dominique Cagalanan

Dominique Cagalanan is a Senior Research Fellow with the Economics in Context Initiative. She is a geographer whose work focuses on identifying multi-stakeholder strategies to address the challenges that emerge at the nexus of forest conservation and restoration, agriculture and rural development. Her areas of expertise include tropical forest restoration, agroforestry, governance strategies and mechanisms for conservation and restoration in human-dominated landscapes and land tenure, particularly in protected areas and indigenous people’s ancestral domains. She has over a decade of experience conducting research on these and related topics in the Philippines.

Dominique is the Executive Director of the EcoHealth Network, a Boston-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the practice, understanding and awareness of ecological restoration, and its importance for human health. She is also the Executive Board Vice President for the Philippines-based Restoration Initiative for Sustainable Ecosystems, Inc. (RISE), which she co-founded in 2018. In addition, she is a Senior Associate Scientist for the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)-Philippines, an Advisory Committee member for EcoLogic Development Fund, and an Editorial Board member for the Climate, Disaster and Development Journal. Dominique received her Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in Worcester, MA; a Permaculture Design Certificate from the Cabiokid Foundation, Philippines; and a Rainforestation Trainer Certificate from the Yale Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative & Visayas State University, Leyte, Philippines.