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Joe Eisen

Joe Eisen

Executive Director

Joe Eisen is Executive Director of RFUK where he has worked for well over a decade in the defence of community rights in tropical forests. Prior to joining RFUK, Joe studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and worked on social justice campaigns and projects with several grassroots Indigenous, environmental and developmental NGOs in Guyana, Gabon and India. While at RFUK, Joe has been a leading force in our participatory research and mapping work and headed up our research, policy and campaign team before taking on the ED role at the beginning of 2020.