Michael Jenkins, President
Tundi Agardy, Director, Marine Ecosystems Program
Ricardo Bayon, Director, Ecosystem Marketplace
Beto Borges, Director, Communities and Markets Program
Carina Bracer, Project Manager, Ecosystem Services Program
Kerstin Canby,
Director, Forest Trade and Finance
Nathaniel Carroll, Project Manager, Ecosystem Marketplace & Ecosystem Services
Kate Hamilton, Manager, Carbon Program
Amanda Hawn, Project Manager, Ecosystem Marketplace
Frank Hicks,
Director, Business Development Facility
Patrick Maguire, Program Manager
Deborah L. McKay, Director, Operations
Rachel Miller, Program Associate
Alice Ruhweza
Bryan Straathof, Director of Finance
Kerry ten Kate, Director, Business and Biodiversity Offset Program
Sissel Waage, Senior Coordinator, Katoomba Group
Tundi Spring Agardy
tel. (240) 505-9105
Tundi Agardy is an internationally renowned expert in marine conservation, with extensive field and policy experience in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, North America and the Pacific. Tundi specializes in coastal planning and assessment, marine protected areas, fisheries management, and ocean zoning, and has published widely in these fields. She founded Sound Seas in 2001 as an independent group working at the nexus of policy and science to promote marine conservation. At Forest Trends, she is heading up the MarES initiative – a program looking to protect Marine Ecosystem Services through Payments for Ecosystem Services markets. Tundi works with international think tanks, foundations, multilaterals, museums and academic institutions, environmental groups, and consortia with interest in solving local and regional coastal and marine conservation problems. She received her Ph.D. in biological sciences and Masters in Marine Affairs from University of Rhode Island, was postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, completed her undergraduate work at Wellesley and Dartmouth Colleges. She has served as Senior Scientist for WWF and began Conservation International’s Global Marine Program, which she oversaw as Senior Director. She also led the coastal portion of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment – a 3 year global analysis released in 2005 that represents the consensus of over a thousand scientists on the state of the world’s ecosystems.
Ricardo Bayon
tel.
(415) 315-9060
Ricardo is the Director of the Ecosystem Marketplace. For nearly a decade he has been focusing on issues related to finance, socially responsible investment (SRI), and the environment. He has been a fellow of the New America Foundation and done work for a number of organizations, including Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Domini Social Investments, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank, Forest Trends, The Nature Conservancy, the UN Foundation, IUCN, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others. For nearly a decade he has been focusing on issues related to finance, socially responsible investment (SRI), and the environment. He has been a fellow of the New America Foundation and done work for a number of organizations, including Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Domini Social Investments, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank, Forest Trends, The Nature Conservancy, the UN Foundation, IUCN, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others. Mr. Bayon's articles on energy, SRI, climate, the environment, and finance have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, the International Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, and The Milken Institute Review. He is also a regular contributor for the UK monthly "Environmental Finance.". Previously, Mr. Bayon was Special Assistant to the Directior General, Interim Director of Communications, and Conservation Finance Coordinator at IUCN-The World Conservation Union. He was born in Bogota, Colombia, studied at Brown University, and speaks fluent English, Spanish and French. He is currently based in San Francisco.
Beto Borges
tel. (707) 400-6714
Beto was born and raised in São Paulo , Brazil, where he obtained an AA degree in industrial chemistry from Escola Técnica Oswaldo Cruz and worked as an ecotourism guide in the Atlantic rainforest, while practicing nature photography and rock climbing. Borges holds a Bachelors of Science in Conservation and Resources Studies from the University of California, at Berkeley and a MBA in Strategic Leadership from Dominican University of California. Borges was the director of the Brazil Program at Rainforest Action Network for 9 years, promoting forest policies, community economic development and indigenous land demarcation in the Amazon region. He also worked for Aguirre International evaluating environmental programs for AmeriCorp-USA during President Clinton's administration and was the manager of sustainable harvesting at Shaman Pharmaceuticals, developing drugs based on the ethnobotany of rainforest medicinal plants. As the executive director of Adopt-A-Watershed he worked on watershed conservation through placed-based learning methodologies. Borges was a program officer with the Goldman Environmental Foundation, selecting finalists for the Goldman Environmental Prize and evaluating project proposals for funding. His additional involvement in philanthropy is in his current role as a board member of Global Greengrants Fund and former co-chair of Grantmakers Without Borders. Borges has also consulted for Aveda Cosmetics, Conservation International, Instituto Terra, Occupational Knowledge International, and Wildlife Conservation Network, among others. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Carina Bracer
tel. (202) 298-3008
Carina Bracer es Coordinadora Regional del Grupo Katoomba América Tropical. Su trabajo se enfoca en la intersección entre las necesidades legales y de gobernanza para transacciones de servicios ambientales y como estas dependen de habilidades técnicas, financieras y de negocios. A traves de la documentación y diseminación de experiencias en estas áreas, el Grupo espera mejorar las capacidades de comunidades y dueños rurales de recursos naturales para obtener resultados positivos de su participación en estas transacciones.
Antes de su trabajo con el Grupo Katoomba y Forest Trends, Carina trabajó con Climate, Community and Biodiveristy Alliance (Alianza de Clima, Comunidad y Biodiversidad) y con la Comisión Nacional Forestal en su país nativo de México, donde se enfocó en la implementación del programa nacional de pagos por servicios hídricos. Antes de su maestría, trabajó en el tema de cosecha y comercio de plantas medicinales, y en el desarrollo de productos forestales no maderos y certificación forestal. Se graduó de la Universidad de California, Berkeley con maestrías en Políticas Publicas y una Maestria en Ciencias del Grupo de Energía y Recursos. Tiene una licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Iberoamericana en la Cuidad de México. Habla español, portugues, frances y ingles.
Kerstin Canby
tel. (202) 298-3015
Kerstin is
the Director of the Forest Trade and Finance
Program at Forest Trends. In addition to general program management, her work specifically focuses on policies and trade issues related to the illegal logging, corruption and associated trade, such as the role of financial institutions and investment flows in combating illegal and unsustainable harvesting practices. A significant portion of her time is spent on the China / East Asia region. Prior to joining Forest Trends, Kerstin worked at the World Bank, where she worked with the Bank's Governance and Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Programs, coordinating the Africa FLEG ministerial process and providing training to local NGOs interested in developing independent monitoring networks; the World Bank's CEOs ad hoc Forum on Forests; and as special assist to the Director of the Environment Department. She continues to work with the World Bank, advising on the development of the Europe / North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Ministerial process. Kerstin has also worked with the US Forest Service in Oregon (economic and land management analysis), was the co-founder of an environmental education program in Durham, North Carolina, and was a teaching assistant of environmental economics at Duke University. Kerstin holds a BA from Duke University , as well as a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University 's School of Forest and Environmental Sciences, where she focused on forestry, wetlands and coastal ecosystems.
Nathaniel Carroll
tel. (415) 315-9011 x103
Nathaniel is a project manager with both the Ecosystem Marketplace and the Ecosystem Services Program. He has been with the Ecosystem Marketplace since early in its development and has worked as project lead for the Business Development Facility. Before joining Forest Trends, Nathaniel worked as a consultant for a private forestry and real estate company in Panama, channeling private investment to restore degraded lands and generate profit from native species forestry. Nathaniel spent two years with Conservation International's Center for Applied Biodiversity Science and their Rapid Assessment Program. He has over three years experience conducting ecological research, from the Rocky Mountains to Andes, from the Northwest Hawaiian Islands to the Penobscot Bay. Nathaniel holds a Bachelor of Science from Tufts University and a Master's in Forest Science from Yale University. Nathaniel is based in Portland, Oregon.
Kate Hamilton
tel.
(202) 470-1960
Katherine Hamilton is the carbon project manager at Ecosystem Marketplace. Before joining Ecosystem Marketplace, she earned a masters degree at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she focused on corporate environmental management and wrote her thesis on the voluntary carbon market. At Yale, Katherine worked as a Hixon Center for Urban Ecology Fellow with United Nations Development Program- Latin America/ Caribbean and a lead research assistant at the Yale Environmental Law and Policy Center. Before attending graduate school, she held positions with Natural Capitalism Inc. in Boulder, Colorado and was based in Paris, France as the International Council for Science's Program Coordinator for U.N. World Summit for Sustainable Development preparations. She has also taught outdoor education. Katherine completed a B.A. in International Relations at the University of Michigan in 2001.
Amanda T. Hawn
tel.
(415) 315-9056
Amanda is Program Manager to The Ecosystem Marketplace as of January 1, 2006. She studied ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University with Steve Pacala and completed graduate work in the same through a Princeton fellowship at the University of Cape Town 's Percy FitzPatrick Institute with Morne du Plessis. She has lived and studied in South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, the Netherlands Antilles and the United States and has held jobs photographing chimpanzees, teaching math and science to first year university students and researching the population dynamics of coral reef fish. Prior to joining the Ecosystem Marketplace, she worked as a science writer, authoring articles about conservation, development and ecology for a variety of publications. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, Conservation in Practice and, The Ecosystem Marketplace.
Frank Hicks
tel. (506) 203-3394
Frank is the Director, Business Development Facility at Forest Trends. Frank has over 20 years of International Development experience, with more than 16 years based in developing countries. He is currently the President of Sustainable Development International, a Costa Rican organization he founded that provides consulting services on sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation, enterprise development, strategic planning, development finance, monitoring and evaluation, and agricultural certification issues. He is currently responsible for developing the Rainforest Alliance's strategy for expanding its sustainable cocoa operations. Formerly, Mr. Hicks was Director of the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Agriculture Program, and, before that, Vice President of Organic Commodity Products, an organic chocolate company, based in San José, Costa Rica. Prior to that the worked as the Program Manager for TechnoServe's Ghana office, the Regional Representative for the Biodiversity Conservation Network, a USAID-funded program that supported environmental enterprises in Asia and the Pacific, based in the Philippines, and as a program officer with the Ford Foundation based in Nigeria and New York City. He is currently a board member of the Nature Conservancy's EcoEnterprises Fund and an advisor to Ecoagriculture Partners, an international NGO. Mr. Hicks has a Master's Degree from Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government, with a focus on international development, and a Bachelor's Degree from Stanford University in Human Biology.
Patrick Maguire
tel. (202) 298-3011
Patrick joined Forest Trends in June of 2007 as the Program Manager of the Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP). Patrick has ten years of experience managing diverse international conservation and development programs. Previous work included managing community forestry based enterprises in Nepal for the World Wildlife Fund; helping to establish the Conservation Finance Alliance and overseeing the development of a guide on innovative conservation financing while at The Nature Conservancy; and serving as a consultant to USAID’s Biodiversity and Forestry Team with Chemonics Inc. Patrick received his Master’s degree in International Relations and Resource and Environmental Management from Boston University. As BBOP Program Manager, Patrick’s responsibilities include coordinating the work of the BBOP Secretariat, liaising with pilot projects, helping develop biodiversity offset methodologies and the BBOP toolkit, developing funding proposals, budget management, and coordinating program meetings.
Deborah McKay
(202) 298-3003
Deborah es Directora de Operaciones de Forest Trends. El papel de Deborah incluye supervisar los reportes financieros y procesos de fondos así como también asistir en la recaudación de fondos. Antes de venir a Forest Trends Deborah trabajó con el Banco Mundial en la oficina del Director Ejecutivo de Italia. Antes de trabajar con el Banco administró tiendas de la Compañía Timberland y administró un departamento comercial de United Colors of Benetton en Washington, D.C. Habla Portugués e Italiano fluidamente y Español y Francés conversacional. Deborah tiene un Bachillerato en Historia de la Universidad de São Paulo, en São Paulo, Brasil.
Michael Jenkins
(202) 298-3000
Michael es Presidente & CEO de Forest Trends. En 1998 Michael fungió como Consejero de Silvicultura al Banco Mundial. De 1989-1999 él era Director Asociado para el Programa de Seguridad y Sostenibilidad de la Fundación MacArthur. Las responsabilidades de Michael con el programa incluyeron todas las subvenciones que se le daban a Latinoamérica y al Caribe, así como también la gerencia general del programa. Antes de incorporarse a la fundación, él trabajó durante tres años en la agroforestería en Haití con el Programa de Alcance Agroforestal del USAID. Anterior a eso trabajó con una organización de desarrollo basada en Washington, Tecnología Internacional Apropiada, como consejero técnico. A finales de los años 70s, Michael fue voluntario del Cuerpo de la Paz en Paraguay, trabajando en proyectos de agricultura, apicultura y silvicultura. Ha viajado y trabajado alrededor de Latinoamérica, Asia y partes de África. Michael habla español, francés, portugués, criollo y guaraní. Ha contribuido a varios libros y artículos y con la publicación de Island Press "El negocio de la Silvicultura Sostenible, Estrategias para una Industria en Transición". Él tiene una maestría en Ciencias Forestales de la Universidad Yale.
Rachel Miller
tel. (202) 298-3005
Rachel is a Program Associate with both the Ecosystem Services and the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programs. Her work focuses on community involvement in developing ecosystem service payment schemes and management support to the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program. Prior to coming to Forest Trends, Rachel worked with a rural community in Bolivia , focusing on community development projects specifically related to apiculture markets, agriculture and involvement of women and seniors in community life. Rachel holds a BA in Economic Development and International Business from Eastern Mennonite University and speaks Spanish and English.
Alice Ruhweza
Alice has worked for various organizations in different capacities as subject matter expert, project manager, coordinator and consultant in various areas including Trade, Telecommunications, the Environment and Health. She is the Network Coordinator for the East and Southern Africa Katoomba Group. Before joining the East and Southern Africa Katoomba Group, Alice worked as a Consultant with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) as Coordinator of the Lead Agency Component. The component sought to ensure that government ministries and the private sector incorporate environmental concerns in their policies/plans/programmes. While with NEMA, Alice was actively involved in documenting and exploring the potential of payment for ecosystem services as a tool to increase funding for conservation and sound environmental management in Uganda. Previous work experience includes positions with Sprint Corporation USA , and the African Environmental Research and Consulting Group. Ms. Ruhweza holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Makerere University , and a Masters Degree in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin , USA.
Bryan Straathof
tel. (202) 298-3009
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Kerry ten Kate
Kerry is Director of Forest Trends' Business and Biodiversity Offset Program, a new partnership of over 30 companies, government agencies and conservation experts. Formerly a practicing barrister, Kerry joined the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the "Earth Summit") in 1990. Since then, she has conducted research and offered policy advice to governments, industry, investors and the UN on issues ranging from conservation and sustainable development strategies to trade and environment policies. Her focus since 1994 has been on biodiversity, including access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing, on which she has written extensively. At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, she led the team developing and implementing genetic resources policy and establishing Kew as a centre of expertise on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Subsequently, as Policy Adviser to Kew's Director, she advised the UK and other governments on the CBD and sustainable development strategies. From 1999 to 2002, she was a member of the UK delegation to the negotiation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and negotiating sessions of the CBD. From November 2002 to September 2006, Kerry was Director of Investor Responsibility at Insight Investment, engaging with the multinational companies in which Insight's £89 billion fund is invested to encourage them to adopt best practice on environmental, social and ethical issues and working with Insight's fund managers and analysts to take these issues into consideration in investment decisions. She writes, broadcasts occasionally for BBC Radio 4, is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the UN University, a member of IUCN's Species Survival Commission and on the Steering Committee of the Global Biodiversity Forum. She is also a member of the UK Government's Darwin Advisory Committee.
Sissel Waage, Ph.D.
Sissel is Senior Coordinator of the International Katoomba Groups. She has over fifteen years of experience working on environmental and social aspects of sustainability issues in Africa, Europe, and North America . Her areas of focus have included sustainable business, environmentally-aware product design, community-based conservation, and conservation-based economic development. Sissel has consulted with a range of private, nonprofit, and philanthropic clients, including: IDEO, Business for Social Responsibility, SustainLane.com, “The Head Table” Reality TV Program, the Garfield Foundation, the Packard Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, the Biodiversity Support Program, UC Berkeley's Blodgett Forest Research Station, and several other international conservation and development organizations. Prior to consulting, Sissel launched and directed the R&D Program at The Natural Step, an international advisory services and research organization focused on sustainable business. She also served as core staff with The Natural Step's Services Group, advising Fortune 500 companies on integration of sustainability into strategy, operations, reporting, and philanthropy. Before joining The Natural Step, Sissel worked with Sustainable Northwest and the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) East and Southern Africa Program. Her work has been published in a range of journals including Corporate Environmental Strategy , Society & Natural Resources , Political Geography , the Journal of Sustainable Forestry, and the Journal of Cleaner Production. Sissel completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and received her B.A. from Amherst College, in Massachusetts. She has also studied at the University of Oslo , in Norway , as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the National University of Singapore.
