Laura Johnson
Senior Advisor, International Land Conservation Network
Laura Johnson is a life-long conservationist with more than 30 years experience in non-profit management. She is a co-founder and former director of the International Land Conservation Network and a senior advisor to both the ILCN and the European Land Conservation Network. Laura is the immediate past president of Mass Audubon where she spent 14 years leading the country’s largest independent state Audubon organization. Prior to joining Mass Audubon, she worked for 16 years at The Nature Conservancy working both as a lawyer and in positions including Massachusetts state director and northeast region vice president. Laura is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Land Trust Alliance. She is also an Overseer of WGBH, on the Board of Advisors of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), on the Board of Visitors of Mount Auburn Cemetery, and a Corporation member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Laura served for 8 years as a founding member of the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Stewardship Council. Laura received a BA in history from Harvard, and a JD from NYU Law School. From 2013-2014 she was a Bullard Fellow at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University where she completed a study on private land conservation efforts around the world. For relevant publications by Laura Johnson, see: http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/open-field
