Dr. Keith Alger
Vice President Latin America
Rare Conservation

Dr. Alger has the ultimate management accountability for his program’s development and implementation. Keith joined Rare from Conservation International where he led their social science research program. He also directed a strategy support unit guiding CI’s national conservation programs in biodiversity hotspot countries on ecotourism, agroforestry, environmental education, and conservation policy reform. In the 1990s, Keith was founder and Executive Director of a local conservation group (Instituto de Estudos Sócio-Ambientais do Sul da Bahia) in Bahia, Brazil. During this period, he was also a professor at the State University of Santa Cruz, in Ilheus, Brazil. Keith was an assistant professor at the University of Florida and obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.