Samuel Tabory
Global Research Lead
Cambridge, United States
Languages: English, Spanish
“CoRe’s commitment to bridging research and practice is built on a foundation of respect for complexity and context. It’s a privilege to work with committed colleagues and partners across the world to collectively leverage diversity of expertise, experience, and perspective. I learn something new every day.”
Sam leads research efforts across CoRe's organizational profile, working to build compelling and rigorous bases of policy evidence around nonlinear systems change for inclusive natural resource governance across scales. He contributes to methodological designs for cross-context research efforts, the development of LME and results frameworks, as well as complex systems change evaluation studies, all with implications for CoRe's strategic program design. Trained as a regional planner, Sam is an environmental governance specialist who cares deeply about the daily politics and negotiation of pursuing environmental governance innovation. His professional interests lie at the intersection of leveraging research to advance grounded action, multi-level partnerships, policy dialogue, and coalition building for just and equitable climate and resource transitions globally. Prior to joining CoRe, Sam worked as a governance advisor to a landscape-scale restoration and livelihood initiative in central Mexico (with funding from UK PACT Mexico), as a research manager for science-policy engagement with a Sustainability Research Network supported by the US National Science Foundation, and as a research associate at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Additionally, he has held NGO project management roles in Latin America. Professionally, he has contributed to reports commissioned by UN Environment, the World Bank, and NATO. His scholarly work has been published in Global Environmental Change, Urban Transformations, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Sam holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as well as dual MA/MS degrees in Latin American Studies and Community & Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin.