Scott Henderson
Scott Henderson is a terrestrial landscape and marine management practitioner with field experience as a researcher and conservation leader in Latin America.
Henderson opened Conservation International's office in the Galapagos Islands in 2004. After serving in various regional and global roles at the organization, he returned to lead the Galapagos program in 2023. There, he heads efforts to build a nature-positive economy that unleashes the stewardship potential of local communities to solve their own conservation challenges.
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 and communicating results to donors and the public to build support for 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.
