Colin Khoury
Project Manager, Global Conservation Consortium For Food Plants
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolColin Khoury is a conservation scientist and global conservation lead with over 25 years of experience working across nonprofit, government, academic, and industry sectors in the US, Europe, and South America. He specializes in food plant diversity, plant genetic resources, and biocultural conservation, leading major initiatives to strengthen ex situ conservation systems and partnerships among genebanks and botanic gardens. Colin has driven high-impact research—from mapping crop wild relatives worldwide during his PhD to coordinating global conservation strategies for organizations like the Crop Trust and NYBG. He combines hands-on field and genebank experience (including curating crop collections and regeneration) with strategic program leadership, managing multi-million-dollar portfolios and cross-sector consortia. Based in Fort Collins, he maintains an active scholarly profile (Google Scholar, ORCID) and a practical focus on linking biodiversity to human nutrition and food security. An underappreciated strength is his ability to translate technical conservation analyses into actionable global policy and partnership frameworks.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Environmental Studies/ Agroecology, BA, Environmental Studies/ Agroecology at Prescott CollegeMSc., Conservation and Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources, MSc., Conservation and Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources at University of BirminghamDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Production Ecology and Resource Conservation at Wageningen University & Research
Github Skills (1)
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CIAT-DAPA/GapAnalysis
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 8 pushes, 3 comments in 11 months
CIAT-DAPA/Plants_that_feed_the_world
Jul 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 push, 2 comments, 26 issues in 2 years 2 months
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