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Fernanda Ferreira, DVM, PhD, is the Agriculture Methane Director at Clean Air Task Force (CATF). Her work focuses on working with governments and the livestock productive sector to accelerate development and adoption of technologies and practices that result in reduced methane emissions from the activity, accounting for differences in the scale and geographies of production systems. Fernanda’s work supports CATF’s global policy efforts to dramatically reduce methane pollution from energy, waste and agriculture. Fernanda’s experience is a blend of industry, academia, public sector and management consulting, bringing more than 15 years of experience working with sustainable livestock production and management systems in the US and Latin America. Prior to joining CATF, Fernanda worked for the Brazilian government evaluating sustainable food animal production systems in the Amazon region. As a professor at University of California, Davis, Fernanda established a prolific research programme focused on evaluating the economic feasibility of sustainable farm-level practices for the dairy and beef industries. As a consultant for Bain and Company, Fernanda worked on a variety of projects including evaluating the feasibility of small farmers to assess carbon markets. Fernanda has a Veterinary degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais State, Brazil, a Masters in Preventive Veterinary Medicine from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD in Animal Science from the University of Florida.