Print

Michael Jenkins

Michael Jenkins is the founding President of Forest Trends, a Washington D.C-based non-profit organization and parent organization of the Ecosystem Marketplace. Prior to founding Forest Trends with other leaders from the conservation, finance, philanthropic foundation, and forestry industries, in 1998 Michael held a joint appointment as a Senior Forestry Advisor to the World Bank. From 1989-1999 he was the Associate Director for the Global Security and Sustainability Program of the MacArthur Foundation, where his responsibilities with the Program included all grant making in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as overarching program management. Before entering the Foundation, Michael worked for three years as an agroforester in Haiti with the USAID Agroforestry Outreach Program. Previous to that he worked with a Washington, DC-based development organization, Appropriate Technology International, as a technical advisor. In the late 70s, Michael was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay working in agriculture, apiculture and forestry projects. He has traveled and worked throughout Latin America, Asia and parts of Africa and speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, Creole and Guaraní. Michael has contributed to a number of books and articles throughout his career and with Island Press published "The Business of Sustainable Forestry, Strategies for an Industry in Transition." He holds a Master of Forest Science degree from Yale University.

Katherine Hamilton

Katherine Hamilton is the Director of the Ecosystem Marketplace. At the Ecosystem Marketplace, she has authored numerous pieces on carbon and water markets, as well as co-authored the book Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work, three annual ‘State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets’ reports and the first annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2009. Prior to joining Ecosystem Marketplace, Katherine held positions at the Yale Environmental Law and Policy Center in New Haven, Connecticut; the United Nations Development Program in San Jose, Costa Rica; Natural Capitalism Inc in Boulder, Colorado; and the International Council for Science in Paris, France.  Katherine holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she wrote her thesis on the voluntary carbon markets, and bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

David Diaz

David Diaz is an Associate with Forest Trends where he leads the Ecosystem Marketplace program's forest carbon team. David has researched and worked in forest carbon science and offset markets since graduating from Harvard University in 2006. He received his Master's degree in Soil Science from Oregon State University in 2008 and has since worked with the US Forest Service, Portland-based Ecotrust, and Forest Trends. David's professional experience has included forest carbon inventory, modeling, and offset project design, and more recently on forest carbon market and policy analysis. David currently manages Ecosystem Marketplace's Forest Carbon Portal website, the publication of the State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2011 report, and directs the technical development of Forest Trends' new REDD+ Finance Tracking Initiative which is tracing the fate of public and private foundation funding in several forest nations.

Daniel Kandy

Daniel Kandy is a Research Analyst in the Biodiversity and Forest Carbon programs of Ecosystem Marketplace. Prior to working with Ecosystem Marketplace he worked in Indiana University's Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, applying his knowledge of GIS and political ecology to investigate deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. He received a BA from Washington University in 2009.