Kate Newman is with he World Wildlife Fund, Us (WWF-US). She is VP, Sustainable Infrastructure and Public Sector Initiatives. Kate specializes in supporting large-scale conservation planning and policy development with a focus on promoting and enabling the global shift to sustainable and nature-based infrastructure. In her three decades with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Kate has worked with WWF around the world to facilitate the integration of cutting-edge conservation science into economic development through marine and terrestrial ecoregion planning, community-based conservation, protected area management, and conservation finance.

Before coming to WWF, Kate worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then Zaire, for the US Agency for International Development (USAID She started in Zaire as a secondary schoolteacher for the Peace Corps.