Felipe Storch de Oliveira is a second-year Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, specializing in Environmental Policy Analysis and Ecosystem Management and Conservation. Felipe combines courses in policy and ecology to assess payment for ecosystem services, building on his recent work as a G20 Fellow at Brazil’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. Before YSE, Felipe worked at the consulting firm the Palladium Group, the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Brazilian NGO Instituto SocioAmbiental (ISA). He holds a BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA in Finance from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-IBRE). Besides being a Co-Chair for the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF), Felipe is a member of Prof Paulo Brando’s ECOTRESS Lab, and a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA) Youth Advisory Panel.