Pamela Conrad

She is an internationally recognized landscape architect, with a deeply rooted passion for the environment – from growing up on a farm in the mid-western United States to studying plant science and regenerative landscape architecture. Her 20-year career has focused on implementing carbon sequestering nature-based solutions in the built environment ranging from large scale habitat restoration to urban waterfront adaptation. She has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, TIME Magazine for Kids, Build Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture (Island Press, 2022), and on stage at the UN COP27 Climate Conference.

Pamela Conrad’s influential carbon research is elevating the net positive impacts of the exterior built environment. She focuses on finding solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises and planning for a resilient future as the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Climate Action Plan Chair and International Federation of Landscape Architects Climate and Biodiversity Working Group Vice-Chair, including spearheading the Climate Action Commitment of net zero emissions by 2040 from 75,000+ professionals globally.

She has received numerous awards including the Metropolis Planet Positive Award, Engineering News Record Top 25 Newsmakers, Architects Magazine R+D Award, USACE Award of Excellence, ASLA’s Award of Honor, AILA President’s Award and San Francisco Business Times Women of Influence Award.

She holds a Bachelor of Science (Plant Science, Landscape Design) from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Landscape Architecture from Italart – Santa Chiara Centro di Studi, and a Master in Landscape Architecture (2006) from the California State Polytechnic University – Pomona.