Kate Dodson
Kate Dodson is the deputy director of sustainable development at the United Nations Foundation. In this role, Ms. Dodson manages the sustainable tourism portfolio at the Foundation, including the development of a new Sustainable Tourism Criteria and the World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism, an initiative launched in late 2005 with Expedia, Inc. to promote sustainable tourism and World Heritage conservation by engaging the travel industry, traveling public and local communities.
She also manages the Friends of World Heritage initiative, a grassroots outreach campaign targeted to the traveling public to raise awareness and funds to support community development around World Heritage sites. Additionally, Ms. Dodson works to identify new opportunities and partnerships to leverage the UN Foundation’s historic investment in World Heritage and sustainable development around the globe.
Ms. Dodson has many years of experience working with community-driven development and has traveled, worked and studied in several countries in Latin America. She has a master’s degree in Indigenous Peoples’ Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
