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Rhita Simorangkir is a Conservation Impact Scientist at The Nature Conservancy Asia Pacific. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics at Georgia State University in 2017. She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at CERGE-EI (2017-2019) and a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (2019-2021). Her research interest lies in the intersection between environmental and development economics.