Biography: Ruthie Musker has been working with the GODAN Secretariat as Research and Partnerships Support Officer for one month. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Los Angeles in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and has performed ecology field research in California, Mexico, and Africa. She received a Master’s of Science from University College London in Environmental Conservation and received a Distinction on her Master’s thesis on information gaps in published materials of human-elephant conflict data. For the past two years, she worked for the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at University of California, Davis and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich to  ssess resilience along agricultural value chains, by developing ontologies and standardized vocabularies, and analysing indicator metrics.