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John Reid,
Founder & President
John has worked in conservation since 1991, promoting the use of economics to address conservation challenges. John has pursued that goal through an innovative training program and by the example of practical, policy-relevant analyses on a number of themes in the Amazon, Central America and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. These include energy and transportation infrastructure, logging, ranching, environmental valuation and agriculture, among others. John founded Conservation Strategy Fund in 1998 after positions with Resources for the Future, Conservation International and Pacific Forest Trust. He designed CSF as an independent, service-oriented and technical organization with the aim of spreading economics skills among conservation professionals. The organization has evolved into an international team of 10 people, 12 university fellows and instructors and a network of over 725 training graduates. John’s work has appeared in many CSF publications, in Scientific American, Conservation Biology, Environment, the Journal of Political Economy, Megadiversidade and Ambio. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.
john@conservation-strategy.org
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Kim Bonine
Program Director
Kim joined CSF in 2001 after three years with the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford University. Her work with Stanford focused on ecological and economic research in the mangrove forests of Kosrae, Micronesia. She has also studied the impact of forest habitat fragmentation in Mexico and worked on community development strategies for poverty alleviation with the World Bank in Zimbabwe. Kim holds a Master of Science degree in Earth Systems and an undergraduate degree in Human Biology, both from Stanford University.
kim@conservation-strategy.org
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Holly Busse
Financial Director
Holly Busse joined CSF in 2006 as the Financial Director and is responsible for overall financial management, fiscal planning, budgeting, reporting and accounting. She has 15 years of experience with bookkeeping, accounting, and contract and project management. Holly has a BA in Accounting and recently completed her MBA at Humboldt State University.
holly@conservation-strategy.org
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Marcos Amend
Brazil Research Director
Marcos Amend is the Research Director CSF-Brazil. He holds a Masters degree in Economics and Forest Policy from UFPR (Federal University of Parana - Brasil) and has been working in conservation since 1987. Before joining CSF, Marcos was the president of the Speleological Studies Group, an organization dedicated to the study and conservation of Brazilian caves. Additionally, Marcos coordinated the development of a "Producing Forest Program" which gained national and international recognition, and managed the field Ecotourism Program for the Sustainable Development reserve of Mamirauá in the Amazon. More recently, was the coordinator of the MPE Ecotourism Program of Brazilian Biodiversity Fund. Marcos was a student in CSF's 2001 Brazil course and then attended CSF's first advanced course in the Pantanal Wetlands in 2002. He is originally from Paraná, in southern Brazil.
marcos@conservacaoestrategica.org.br
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Cristian Vallejos
Latin America Director
Cristian has over 20 years of experience working in tropical conservation and sustainable development. He worked for Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN) and Proyecto BOLFOR in his native Bolivia. Before joining CSF, Cristian helped the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -where he was regional director for the Americas- establish its network of national initiatives in Latin America. He also served as Amazon Conservation Association’s (ACA) first executive director for 4 years, guiding this organization to regional prominence in the southwestern Amazon. Cristian holds a degree in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru and received training in resource economics and environmental policies at Duke University’s School of the Environment and at Indiana University’s Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
cristian@conservation-strategy.org
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Leonardo Colombo Fleck
Conservation Economics Analyst
Leonardo Colombo Fleck has extensive experience in the application of economic theory into practical conservation. His work has included projects in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico, on the economics of protected areas, land use and natural resources, and economics and environmental impacts of roads and tourism. Leo joined CSF-Brazil as a Research Analyst in 2005 after attaining his Masters degree in Conservation Biology from the Durrell Institute of Conservation & Ecology at the University of Kent in England. Before joing CSF, Leo worked as a researcher for the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute in the Amazon, and with ecotourism enterprises in the Pantanal Wetlands and in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve. Leo first came to CSF as a participant in the 2003 Brazil course. He is a native of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, and speaks english and spanish.
leonardo@conservacaoestrategica.org.br
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Cecilia Ayala Aguirre
Bolivia Program Director
Cecilia joined CSF at the end of 2005 as Director of the Bolivia Program. She has a degree in Economics and a Masters in Public Policy and Development from the Universidad Católica Boliviana, and brings to CSF her experience applying economic analysis and environmental valuation techniques to Bolivia's environmental challenges. She has over ten years of professional experience working on sustainable development with indigenous communities, and for the past six years she has been working in collaboration with SERNAP, Bolivia's protected areas agency. Prior to joining CSF, Cecilia worked as a consultant on conservation issues with various national and international NGOs, private foundations, and public institutions. Cecilia participated in CSF's first Bolivia course in 2001 in Madidi National Park.
cecilia@conservation-strategy.org
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Alfonso Malky
Bolivia Research Analyst
Alfonso has a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics from the Catholic University, Chile. He has extensive experience in the design, monitoring and evaluation of public policies, with emphasis on agriculture, forestry and the environment. Alfonso has participated in the design and evaluation of policies related to regulation of natural resource use, rural development, sustainable forest management and climate change, among others. He has experience with professional and theoretical issues in environmental economics, having participated in international courses related to economic tools for conservation, natural resource management and valuation of environmental goods and services. He is also experienced in designing proposals for economic development and poverty reduction in Bolivia.
alfonso@conservation-strategy.org
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Carol Fernandez
Bolivia Program Associate
Carol Fernandez is the Program Associate for the CSF Bolivia office. She holds a degree in agronomy from the Universidad Mayor de San Simón. Prior to joining CSF, she was working in assessment for rural development projects in Bolivia. Carol joined CSF in May 2006 to support training activities, financial management, reporting and accounting for the Bolivia program.
csfbolivia@entelnet.bo
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Venetia Hargreaves-Allen
Research Fellow
Venetia, a current PhD candidate at the Imperial College London in the UK, is working with CSF to conduct environmental economics research in Belizean protected areas. She was recently a visiting scholar with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego and with the Marine Biology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Venetia conducted economic and ecological fieldwork in the Caribbean, Indonesia and the Indian Ocean, filmed and produced conservation films for audiences in Kenya and Indonesia, and was a researcher and writer for The Ecologist Magazine. She holds a Bachelors in Biological Sciences from Oxford University and a Masters in Environmental Economics and Politics from the Imperial College London.
vhargreavesallen@gmail.com
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Casson Trenor
Research Fellow
Casson joined CSF in 2005 to develop an economic analysis system for invasive species issues in data-poor countries in the South Pacific. He subsequently expanded this program to Africa, and has conducted economic assessment workshops in Uganda, Zambia, and Ghana. Casson is also a specialist in marine conservation and sustainability issues, and has conducted fishery and aquaculture analysis for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program. Recently, Casson has combined his passions for ocean conservation work and Japanese culture to write Sustainably Sushi, a guide to eating in a sustainable manner at the sushi bar. Casson is fluent in Spanish and French, speaks Arabic and Japanese, and holds a Master’s Degree in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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