Sareh Forouzesh

Sareh Forouzesh is a Mediator and Program Manager at Meridian Institute. She manages the Just Rural Transition (JRT), which promotes solutions that recognize and reward people for the actions they take to protect the environment and promote access to healthy, safe, and nutritious food.

Sareh is a sustainable development professional with more than eight years’ experience in consulting and program management roles. She is specialized in agricultural drivers of deforestation, supply chains and sustainable procurement, and corporate sustainability. Prior to joining Meridian, she was the Associate Director of Forests at CDP, where she worked on issues relating to commodity driven deforestation and jurisdictional approaches towards eliminating deforestation. In this role, Sareh was responsible for developing, fundraising for, and managing several global multi-year programs of work and contributing towards multiple thought leadership and knowledge products.