Nejem Raheem, Secretary/ Treasurer and Research Economist. Nejem Raheem is a Ph.D. candidate in International and Environmental Economics at the University of New Mexico. He is past Economics Chair of the Social Science Working Group at the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). Nejem received his M.A. in Economics from UNM in 2003 and his B.A. in theatre from Bennington College, VT, in 1994. He specializes in environmental economics in traditional cultural settings. He has collaborated with the Department of Economics at the Universidade de Brasília in Brasilia, Brazil, and has participated in interdisciplinary research and advocacy with ELI and Forest Guardians since 2000. His work with ELI has included work in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Kivalina, AK. He is currently working with Permacultura America Latina and ELI to produce a conference on "Greening our Economy with the Principles of Permaculture," to take place in São Paulo, Brazil in summer 2007. Recent and upcoming presentations include talks at Auburn University's "Emerging Issues Along the Urban-Rural Interface: Linking Science and Society" conference (March 2005), Brandeis University's Sustainable International Development Program (April 2005), the SCB meeting in Brasilia (July 2005), the Western Regional Science Association's meeting (February 2006), and a short course "Economic Methods for Conservation" with faculty from the Conservation Strategy Fund at SCB 2006. He has lived in Nepal and Bangladesh and worked in Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the Union of Myanmar. He is fluent in Portuguese and proficient in French.