Conservation Strategy Fund

John Reid
CSF Founder & President

Before founding CSF, John established and managed Conservation International’s largest field program in Brazil, a successful effort to expand forest protection along the country’s Atlantic coast. He has conducted policy and economic assessments on such topics as forestry, cattle ranching, road development and biodiversity prospecting in a number of countries, including Brazil, Suriname, Guatemala, Bolivia and Papua New Guinea. Subsequent to his work at CI, he served as Policy Director for the Pacific Forest Trust, where he chaired the Forest Stewardship Council’s Pacific Coast Working Group. John is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, speaks French and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Robert Hambrecht
Board Treasurer
CFO, Greenlife International

Bob Hambrecht is CFO of Greenlife International, a  project development company with the aim of  developing biofuel production facilities in Latin America and throughout the world.  Prior to joining Greenlife, Mr. Hambrecht was Managing Director at W.R. Hambrecht + Company, where he focused on leveraging technology to innovate in equity financing. Before that , Mr. Hambrecht was a Vice President at Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners, where he specialized in venture investments in technology and branded consumer companies.

Active in the banking community, Mr. Hambrecht is on the board of directors of a number of private and public companies as well as non-profit environmental organizations. He is a venture partner/advisor to venture capital funds investing in branded consumer and technology companies. Mr. Hambrecht is also the Chairman of the Information Technology Coalition of San Francisco, an advocacy organization representing San Francisco’s technology industry in policy debates within San Francisco.

Mr. Hambrecht has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters from Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Elissa and their three children.

Deborah Moore
Scientist, Former Commissioner, World Commission on Dams

Deborah Moore is currently an independent consultant working to protect human rights and the environment. Deborah was appointed one of the twelve Commissioners to the World Commission on Dams, an independent body established by the World Bank and World Conservation Union/IUCN to investigate the environmental, social, and economic impacts of large dams worldwide and to recommend guidelines for the future. The WCD’s final report was launched by Nelson Mandela in London in November 2000 (www.dams.org).

For thirteen years, Deborah was a senior scientist with Environmental Defense, a US-based public interest group, where she worked since 1986 (www.environmentaldefense.org). As Co-Director of Environmental Defense’s International Program, she worked to safeguard the world’s unique ecological treasures – and the rights and cultural diversity of communities that depend on these resources – through re-directing investments towards sustainability and institutions like the World Bank. Deborah has helped to win protection for the Pantanal wetlands in South America, to defeat plans for misguided water development projects in South Asia, and to promote investments in sustainable, community-based water programs globally. In the western U.S., she worked with Native American communities to win Congressional approval for three separate Indian water rights settlements that set important precedents for river protection and recognition of Indian rights.

She has an MS in Energy and Resources from the University of California-Berkeley, and a BA in Physics from Reed College. Deborah is married to Adam Dawson, an attorney in San Francisco, and has a daughter, Mariah. Mariah says "My Mom protects water so people and fish can be healthy!"

Jennifer Siebel
Actress and Producer

Jennifer Siebel is pursuing a producing and acting career in Hollywood, California. She recently returned from India where she played a supporting role in the British-Indian co-production of the film American Daylight. She has worked on various television and film projects including the series Presidio Med and the upcoming film Something's Gotta Give.

Before launching her acting career, Jennifer worked for Conservation International (CI) in their enterprise and corporate division. During her time with CI, Jen traveled extensively through Latin America, Africa and Europe promoting environmental and biodiversity conservation.

Jennifer holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University and studied theater at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco.

 

Dr. Linwood Pendleton
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA

Linwood is an Associate Professor in the Program in Environmental Science and Engineering in UCLA’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Linwood has been teaching with CSF since 1999 and has extensive experience both in the United States and abroad with environmental valuation, coastal resource management, and the economics of marine protected areas. His current research focuses on the economics of environmental goods and services, especially those in the coastal zone, including the National Ocean Economics Project, the Southern California Beach Valuation Project and the California Regional Study of the Coastal Ocean Observing System. Linwood has a Masters in Biology with a focus in Tropical Ecology from Princeton University, a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a PhD in Natural and Environmental Resource Economics from Yale University.

Stewart Wakeling
Senior Program Officer, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

Stewart Wakeling recently joined the Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco as a Senior Program Officer.  Prior to joining the Haas, Jr. Fund, he worked as a Juvenile Justice System Coordinator for San Joaquin County in a public/private collaborative partnership pursuing social and health service reform in San Joaquin County. Mr. Wakeling was also previously a senior researcher with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a member of the Executive Session on New Paradigms in Child Protective Services, a national working group concerned with developing community approaches to protecting children from abuse and neglect.

Mr. Wakeling is a fellow with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and participates on a number of state and national commissions and working groups, including the advisory board of the Little Hoover Commission's study of Human Service Redesign, the National Learning Group on the Evaluation of Family Support, and the California State Attorney General's Task Force on Gang Violence. He also works with the Native Nations Institute of the Morris K. Udall Center for Public Policy at the University of Arizona on a continuing study of criminal justice institutions in Indian Country. He has written a number of papers and other publications on the above topics.

Mr. Wakeling has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Piedmont, California with his wife, Laura, and their three children.