CV
Click here for a PDF version of my CV (Updated 05/19/2023)
Education
- PhD in Development Economics, ETH Zürich, 2022
- Advisor: Prof. Rachael Garrett
- PhD student in Earth & Environment, Boston University (transferred to ETH Zürich)
- MSc in Environmental Change & Management, University of Oxford, 2016
- BA in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 2014
Institutional Appointments
- 2022-current: New York University - Postdoctoral Researcher
- Advisor: Prof. Kimberly Carlson
Professional Experience
- 2017: Global Canopy - Research Intern (Supply Chains)
- 2016-2017: Proforest - Environmental Consultant
- 2016: University of Oxford - Research Assistant, Oxford Ecosystems Lab
- 2013-2017: Forestry Commission - Project Manager, Forest health survey
- 2009-2014: Coombe Forestry Ltd. - Sustainable Forester
Publications
A. Hänggli, S.A. Levy, D. Armenteras Pascual, B. Bovolo, J. Brandao, X. Rueda , R.D. Garrett. "A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome." Environmental Research Letters.
S.A. Levy, F. Cammelli, J. Munger, H. K. Gibbs, R.D. Garrett (2023). "Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments." Global Environmental Change. 80.
Grabs, J., F. Cammelli, S.A. Levy & R. D. Garrett (2022). "Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies." Global Environmental Change. 70.
Garrett, R. D., J. Grabs, F. Cammelli, F. Gollnow, S.A. Levy (2022). "Should Payments for Ecosystem Services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado." World Development. 152.
Cammelli, F., S. A. Levy, J. Grabs, J. Valentim & R.D. Garrett (2022). "Effectiveness-equity tradeoffs in enforcing exclusionary supply chain policies: Lessons from the Amazonian cattle sector." Journal of Cleaner Production. 332.
Garrett, R. D., S. A. Levy, (2021). "Forests and sustainable devleopment in the Brazilian Amazon: History, trends and future prospects." Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 46:1.
Garrett, R. D.,S. A. Levy, F. Gollnow & X. Rueda (2021). "Have food supply chain policies improved forest conservation and rural livelihoods? A systematic review." Environmental Research Letters. 16.
Garrett, R.D., S. Levy et al (2019). "Criteria for Effective Zero-Deforestation Commitments." Global Environmental Change. 54.
Garrett, R. D., X. Rueda, S. A. Levy, J.F. Bermudez Blanco, S. Shah (2018). "Measuring impacts of supply chain initiatives for conservation: focus on forest-risk food commodities." Meridian Insitute. Washington, D.C.
Awards
- 2023 SFIAR Award, Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research, Switzerland (CHF 10,000)
- 2022 Postdoctoral Travel Grant, New York University, USA (USD 700)
- 2021 International Geneva Award, Swiss Network for International Studies, Switzerland (CHF 5,000)
- 2020 Global Young Scientists Summit delegate, National Research Foundation, Singapore
- 2016 Environmental Change Institute Research Award, University of Oxford, UK
- 2016 Oriel College Travel Award, University of Oxford, UK
- 2014 Ernest and Carmen Frankl Memorial Award, University of Cambridge , UK
Talks
March 25, 2023
Conference session at American Association of Geographers Conference, Denver, CO, USA
March 25, 2023
Conference proceedings talk at American Association of Geographers Conference, Denver, CO, USA
October 09, 2022
Conference proceedings talk at FLARE Conference, Rome, Italy
November 25, 2021
Talk at Stockholm Environment Institute - Trase Research Dialogue no.6, Stockholm, Sweden
August 03, 2021
Talk at 59th Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia, Administração e Sociologia Rural (SOBER) & 6th Econtro Brasileiro de Pesquisadores em Cooperativismo (EBPC), São Paulo, Brazil
May 28, 2021
Talk at Swiss Knowledge Exchange on Research on Agriculture, Conservation & Development Issues in Forest-Risk Supply Chains, Zürich, Switzerland
December 08, 2020
Talk at Fourth Global Land Programme Telecoupling Webinar on Governing Telecoupling, Zürich, Switzerland
September 14, 2020
Conference proceedings talk at Earth System Governance Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia
May 14, 2020
Workshop at 6th Annual Duck Family Graduate Workshop on Environmental Politics and Governance, University of Washington, WA, USA
April 28, 2020
Conference proceedings talk at International Conference on Learning Representations, Zürich, Switzerland
October 14, 2019
Talk at Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon), Belem, Brazil
April 26, 2019
Conference proceeding talk at Global Land Programme 4th Open Science Meeting, Bern, Switzerland
December 07, 2018
Talk at Land Use & Livelihoods Initiative Student Conference, Boston University, Boston, USA
November 10, 2017
Conference proceeding talk at Sustainability & Development Conference, Anne Arbor, MI, USA
Teaching
Skills
- Quantiative research methods
- Panel regressions
- Difference-in-Differences
- Network analysis
- Qualitative & field methods
- Process-tracing
- Household survey execution
- Semi-structured interviews
- Statistical computing, Programming & Geospatial analysis
- R studio (advanced)
- Python (intermediate)
- ArcGIS (advanced)
- QGIS (advanced)
- Google Earth Engine (intermediate)
- Open Data Kit (advanced)
- Languages
- English (native)
- Portuguese (advanced)
- Photography