PEM Welcomes David Sumares as an Associate Consultant
PEM is pleased to welcome David Sumares as a new Core Consultant, bringing extensive expertise in environmental policy, climate change, and sustainable natural resource management.
David holds a PhD in Environmental Policy and has 10 years of international consulting experience across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. His work spans the design, implementation, and evaluation of international development and environmental programmes.
His areas of expertise include biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, sustainable land and natural resource management, agroecology, and environmental governance. He has extensive experience in project design, evaluation, capacity development, and stakeholder engagement, having worked with international organisations such as IUCN, FAO, and UNDP.
David has previously collaborated with PEM on several assignments, including:
- Mid-Term Evaluation of IUCN’s Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility (BNCFF) and Blue Carbon Accelerator Fund (BCAF), focusing on financing mechanisms supporting the blue economy and marine conservation.
- Final Evaluation of Phase 2 of IUCN’s Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility (BNCFF-II).
- Final Evaluation of IUCN’s Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project, where he served as Evaluation Team Leader, assessing initiatives to promote circular economies and reduce plastic pollution across six island states in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Alongside his international consulting work, David brings practical experience in agroforestry, landscape restoration, and climate-resilient agriculture, combining environmental policy expertise with hands-on approaches to sustainable development.
Read more about David’s expertise here.
Happy to have you at PEM, David!
