Pamela Conrad
Founder, Executive Director/Design Critic
Climate Positive Design/Harvard University
Pamela Conrad, PLA, ASLA LEED AP is an internationally recognized landscape architect and founder of Climate Positive Design. She teaches at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, serves as a Salata Institute Faculty Associate, and advocates for implementing low-carbon, nature-based solutions that support healthy communities and ecosystems.
She is the inaugural American Society of Landscape Architects Biodiversity and Climate Fellow and Climate Action Plan Chair, an Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow, Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow, and Harvard Loeb Fellow.
Conrad’s 20-year career has focused on positive transformations of the exterior built and natural environment, including a decade of coastal adaptation projects. In 2019 she launched the Climate Positive Design Challenge and Pathfinder app as a global call to improve climate and biodiversity impacts.
Her work has been widely featured and celebrated, including United Nations climate conferences, the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TIME Magazine for Kids, and the Metropolis Planet Positive Award.
She is the inaugural American Society of Landscape Architects Biodiversity and Climate Fellow and Climate Action Plan Chair, an Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow, Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellow, and Harvard Loeb Fellow.
Conrad’s 20-year career has focused on positive transformations of the exterior built and natural environment, including a decade of coastal adaptation projects. In 2019 she launched the Climate Positive Design Challenge and Pathfinder app as a global call to improve climate and biodiversity impacts.
Her work has been widely featured and celebrated, including United Nations climate conferences, the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TIME Magazine for Kids, and the Metropolis Planet Positive Award.