Learn more about the professional backgrounds of some members of the UK Team.
Victoria Cordi, Senior Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations
Victoria Cordi oversees a global foundation and corporate philanthropy portfolio. Her work is focused on the cultivation and development of strong and productive relationships with institutional and corporate partners, to advance common conservation and sustainable livelihoods goals.
Cordi has worked in conservation for more than sixteen years with significant experience in fundraising as well as program management and strategic development. She started her career in the field, working on sea turtle conservation projects in Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay, and Nicaragua, where she saw firsthand the impacts climate change, deforestation, and habitat degradation can have on ecosystems and the people who are dependent on them. After completing her MA in Conservation Biology as a Fulbright student at Columbia University, she spent five years working as a senior program officer at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
In this role, Cordi had significant fundraising responsibilities—most notably working with corporation and foundations, but also with bilateral and multilateral agencies—for a portfolio of projects and programs in nearly twenty countries around the world. She also acted as interim manager of the WCS Nicaragua Program for a year, overseeing project implementation and managing local staff. A native of Argentina, Victoria has lived in nine countries and is fluent in Spanish and English.