Ms Francine Barchett

Postgraduate Fellow

Ms Francine Barchett is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University's Center for Conservation Social Sciences. Her research probes the human dimensions of the safari hunting industry in Southern Africa through an interdisciplinary social science lens. 

She is simultaneously the founder and director of an International Hunting Discussion Forum, where she coordinates a coalition of 40 leading scholars, practitioners, community leaders, and youth from 15 countries, and 25 institutions through the support of AWEI, African Wildlife Foundation, Cornell, and the University of Florida. She is also on the steering committee of the African Wildlife Economy Working Group; is a member of the Young Opinion Group of the Council for International Game and Wildlife Conservation; and is a member of the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group for both Africa and North America.

Prior to her conservation work, Ms. Barchett's projects had led her across 25 countries, from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya to Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the Philippines, to the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India. She holds a B.S. in International Agriculture and M.P.S. in Global Development.