Elizabeth (Lizzie) Schueler
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Schueler joined Manomet Conservation Sciences as its 4th President in April, 2020.
Before joining Manomet, her career spanned the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors, with a particular emphasis on building and sustaining mission-driven public/private partnerships. Lizzie served as Vice President, Markets and Supply Chains, overseeing World Wildlife Fund’s work to eliminate, reduce, or mitigate the key threats caused by commodity production globally. In that role she led large programs funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in partnerships with The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, and Conservation International. Prior to her work at WWF, Lizzie worked for Microsoft Corporation, where she led two different corporate social responsibility programs, first in the Middle East and Africa, and then globally. Her work at Microsoft included initiating and leading the Partners in Learning program in the Middle East and Africa, hiring and managing 12+ staff in the region. She then led the Government Security Program globally, as well as a novel internet safety program that required collaboration with national-level law enforcement agencies worldwide. During her tenure at the United States Agency for International Development, she led technology partnerships with private companies under the Global Development Alliance.
A Massachusetts native, she is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a self-professed “amateur yet enthusiastic” birder, and an avid outdoorswoman enjoying hiking, biking, kayaking, fly-fishing, and Nordic skiing.