BSc in Zoology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MPA in Development Studies, Princeton University. Formerly: with the Ford Foundation, Indonesia; Director, Development Assistance Policy, World Wildlife Fund; Founding Director, Institutions and Governance Program, World Resources Institute (WRI). 2006-12, Director-General, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an international organization headquartered in Indonesia. 2013-17 Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC. Currently: Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute; Senior Adviser, David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Co-Author of the book “Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change”, to promote the importance of forest conservation and results-based financing for REDD+. Recipient, Order of Agricultural Merit, France (2013).
Governments and businesses that embrace nature-positive policies, practices and investments stand to gain, according to a new white paper from a World Economic Forum working group on scal...
In 2010, several private-sector companies made bold commitments to remove deforestation from major commodity supply chains by 2020. Since then, many others have joined this effort through...
In 2016, outcomes from last year's climate summit in Paris provide reasons to hope that we can save the world’s remaining tropical forests before it’s too late.
