She heads the FUEL Lab at the Carolina Population Center. Her research focuses on questions related to the welfare impacts of natural resource management policies and projects. She is a also Senior Associate with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia where she has been involved in global studies focused on forestry-poverty linkages, and the social impacts of REDD+. Pam has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University. She was a student of Elinor Ostrom’s.