Scott Henderson
Vice President, Galapagos Program Lead and Nature Positive Economies Lead for Americas Field Division
Henderson opened Conservation International's office in the Galapagos Islands in 2004 and, after serving in various regional and global positions, returned to his roots in 2023 as Galapagos program lead. There, he heads efforts to build a nature-positive economy that unleashes the stewardship potential of local communities to solve their own conservation challenges.
Henderson also leads the Americas Field Program’s work on nature positive economies, which addresses the agricultural drivers of deforestation and develops more sustainable food and fiber production.
From 2004 to 2018 he led Conservation International’s Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape program from his base in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In this role he was responsible for developing multi-country marine strategies, building teams to deliver on those strategies, fundraising and communicating results to build awareness of marine conservation issues.
Prior to joining Conservation International in 2003, Scott worked as a nature guide and divemaster in the Galapagos Marine Reserve and as a graduate student with teaching responsibilities at the University of Oxford. He earned his MSc at Oxford with honors in environmental change and management and his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University with magna cum laude honors in biology and English.
His main hobby is managing his own 40-acre sustainable coffee farm in the Galapagos Islands with his wife and son. In his free time, Henderson is an avid scuba diver, snowboarder and nature photographer.
Henderson opened Conservation International's office in the Galapagos Islands in 2004 and, after serving in various regional and global positions, returned to his roots in 2023 as Galapagos program lead. There, he heads efforts to build a nature-positive economy that unleashes the stewardship potential of local communities to solve their own conservation challenges.
Henderson also leads the Americas Field Program’s work on nature positive economies, which addresses the agricultural drivers of deforestation and develops more sustainable food and fiber production.
From 2004 to 2018 he led Conservation International’s Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape program from his base in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In this role he was responsible for developing multi-country marine strategies, building teams to deliver on those strategies, fundraising and communicating results to build awareness of marine conservation issues.
Prior to joining Conservation International in 2003, Scott worked as a nature guide and divemaster in the Galapagos Marine Reserve and as a graduate student with teaching responsibilities at the University of Oxford. He earned his MSc at Oxford with honors in environmental change and management and his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University with magna cum laude honors in biology and English.
His main hobby is managing his own 40-acre sustainable coffee farm in the Galapagos Islands with his wife and son. In his free time, Henderson is an avid scuba diver, snowboarder and nature photographer.