Financial and technical support transforming the way China feeds itself and the world feeds China.

Building connections and understanding between China and the world for a better future. Clients include:Climate and Land Use AllianceChina Council for International Cooperation on Environment and DevelopmentEnvironmental Grantmakers AssociationFord FoundationSocial Resources InstituteOxfamRockefeller Brothers Fund

• 30 staff, $3 million budget; for-benefit (B Corp) subsidiary Peace Coffee: 40 staff, $4.5 million annual sales.• Responsible for strategy, external relationships, fundraising, internal systems and culture, Board development.• Built a new, more strategic and governance-oriented Board, worked with the Board on a re-focused organizational vision, and then aligned IATP’s strategies and systems behind that vision.• Created an endowment fund worth $2.4 million.Organizational achievements include:• Developed successful market-based working landscapes certification program to improve sustainability of farming practices in Midwest.• Raised and disbursed over $400K in flood relief funds for Minnesota’s small organic farmers.• Conducted internationally-significant research on various key issues in food and agriculture policy.• Developed and worked with a coalition of US and developing country farm organizations to promote agroecological approaches as a response to global food security, poverty and climate challenges.www.iatp.org

Provided strategic advice and evaluation services for foundations and NGOs working in China.Evaluated a national anti-domestic-violence network funded by a donor consortium.Evaluated a small grant program run by an international NGO.

• Grew from 10 staff in a single office with annual budget of $1 million to 70 staff with a budget of $6 million/year and seven field offices.• Responsible for strategy, staffing, fundraising, government relations, liaison with the WWF network and other organizations, and relationships with the media and public.• Established human resources, finance and communications systems.• Catalyzed establishment of over a million hectares of forest protected areas and 420,000 hectares of Forest Stewardship Council certified forests.• Built effective ecoregional conservation programs in the forests of the Upper Yangtze and the freshwater systems of the Central Yangtze. (Landscape-scale planning, linked protected area systems, working landscapes, terrestrial and freshwater habitat corridors.)• Increased effectiveness and fairness of major governmental habitat restoration programs.• Worked as sole international partner with the Ministry of Education to develop a national K-12 environmental education curriculum for China’s 200 million schoolchildren.• Carried out path-breaking research on China’s international forest products trade.• Built and managed major corporate partnerships. (HSBC, LaFarge, IKEA) www.wwfchina.org

• Responsible for Environment and Development grantmaking program. • Awarded a total of over $5 million in grants.• Supported capacity building, research and field projects to promote community based forest and biodiversity management.• Invested in introducing concepts and approaches that were new to China at the time, including: common property systems, participatory rural appraisal, indigenous knowledge, ethnobotany, development finance, and gender perspectives. Founding grant to Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge.• Provided founding grant to China Development Brief, a key information source on development, environment, civil society and human rights issues in China.• Made founding or early grants to China’s earliest environmental NGOs (Global Village, Friends of Nature)• Made founding grants to key poverty and development groups (Poverty Research Association, PRA Network)• Funded a highly effective capacity building fellowship program to provide social science and rural development training to natural resource researchers and officials.

• Facilitated development of a coordinated approach among North American zoos to the controversial issue of giant panda loans and conservation.• Worked closely with zoo biologists on a written conservation plan.• Managed AZA’s engagement with Chinese partners, including negotiation between US and Chinese zoo officials and support for zoo- and field-based panda conservation projects in China. • Mandarin Chinese interpretation and translation.

• Advised IRN on strategies for opposing the Three Gorges Dam.• Carried out field research in China, collected primary data (written and oral), and prepared a detailed assessment of the political and technical status and options surrounding the proposed dam.

• Served in a variety of roles including environmental education, translation and field research.• In 1990-91 conducted field research in Tibet as part of the first definitive study of the population, ecology and conservation status of the black-necked crane. (Grus nigricollis)