John Reid

CSF Founder & President, Sebastopol, California

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.