Gretchen Daily

Gretchen Daily
Daily in 2020
Born	(1964-10-19) October 19, 1964 (age 59) Washington D.C., U.S.
Alma mater	Stanford University
Known for	Natural capital Biogeography
Awards	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019) Blue Planet Prize (2017) Volvo Environment Prize (2012) Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the American Philosophical Society Heinz Award with special focus on Global Change (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Biology Conservation biology Natural capital Ecology Biogeography Ecological economics
Institutions	Stanford University Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment The Nature Conservancy Natural Capital Project

Gretchen C. Daily (born October 19, 1964)^[1] is an American environmental scientist and tropical ecologist. She has contributed to understanding humanity's dependence and impacts on nature, and to advancing a systematic approach for valuing nature in policy, finance, management, and practice around the world. Daily is co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project, a global partnership that aims to mainstream the values of nature into decision-making of people, governments, investors, corporations, NGOs, and other institutions. Together with more than 300 partners worldwide, the Project is pioneering science, technology, and scalable demonstrations of inclusive, sustainable development.

Based at Stanford University, Daily is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Daily is an elected fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,^[2] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[3] and the American Philosophical Society.^[4] Daily is a former board member of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of The Nature Conservancy.^[5]