Avoided Deforestation Partners

PARTNERS

Avoided Deforestation Partners is an informal network of individuals who donate their time and resources to advance the adoption of U.S. and international forest protection climate policies that are effective, transparent and equitable. The vast majority of our supporters believe in furthering both market and non-market solutions to reduce tropical deforestation.

AD Partners was founded by a small group of individuals who are all passionate supporters of advancing policies that will protect international forests. See more for founding partner bios.

The following individuals have advanced our efforts by speaking at or attending our conferences, lending professional guidance to our technical efforts, offering financial support and generally serving as advocates for our common cause:

Featured Speakers, Panelists and Honored Supporters
Founding Partners, Active Advisors and Event Organizers
Event Participants and General Supporters (partial list)
Financial Contributors: Public and Private

The 178 countries which have individuals that follow our progress

Nobel Peace Prize Supporters

Al Gore – 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former Vice President of the United States

Wangari Maathai – 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Founder of the Green Belt Movement

Oscar Arias – 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President of Costa Rica

Featured Speakers

Photos by Jacob Crawfurd/Crawfurd Media

picture of lunch speakers and NGO presidents

(From left to right) Jeff Horowitz, founder AD Partners – Peter Seligmann, Chair, Conservation International – Stu Eizenstat, Former U.S. Ambassador – Mark Tercek, President The Nature Conservancy – Nobel Laureate Al Gore – Helene Gayle, President, CARE USA – Carter Roberts, President WWF US – Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai – Dean Hirsh, President World Vision International – Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam – Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps and Kevin Knobloch, President Union of Concerned Scientists

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and Wangari Maathai

2007 and 2004 Noble Peace Prize Winners, Gore and Maathai; in conversation with moderator Dan Rather


Jeff Horowitz, AD Partners	Kevin Knobloch, President UCS	Carter Roberts, President WWF	Helene Gayle, President CARE	Ambassador Stu Eizenstat

Dean Hirsh, President of World Vision International addressing roundtable participants

Conservation and Pro Poor NGO Presidents


Dean Hirsh, President WVI	Ray Offenheiser, President Oxfam	Nancy Lindborg, Pres. Mercy Corps


Mark Tercek, President TNC	Peter Seligmann, Chairman CI	Carter Roberts, President WWF

Dr. John Holdren,
Director, Woods Hole Research Center

Teresa Heinz,
Chair of The Heinz Endowments

Dr. Thomas Lovejoy,
President, The Heinz Center

picture of Stephanie Meeks, Jim Rogers, Russ Mittermeier, Kathleen Kennedy,
Fred Krup

AD Partners discussion panel with
Stephanie Meeks - TNC, Jim Rogers - Duke Energy, Russ Mittermeier - CI, Kathleen Kennedy, Fred Krupp - EDF

Private Sector Investors and Project Developers

Ken Newcombe, (formerly) Goldman Sachs; Abyd Karmali, Merrill Lynch; John Forgach, Equator Environmental LLC; Pedro Moura Costa, EcoSecurities

Featured Speakers, Panelists and Honored Supporters

Ban Ki-moon — Secretary-General of the United Nations

Al Gore — 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former Vice President of the United States

Wangari Maathai — 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Founder of the Green Belt Movement

Oscar Arias — 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President of Costa Rica

Achim Steiner — Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

Andrew N. Liveris — Chairman and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company

Arne Sorenson — President and COO, Marriott International

Bharrat Jagdeo — President of Guyana

Bob Musil — Chairman, 2020 Vision

Brian McClendon — Vice President, Google, Inc., Co-founder, Google Earth

Bryan Walsh — Journalist, TIME Magazine

Carl Pope — Executive Director, Sierra Club

Carter Roberts — President, World Wildlife Fund, USA

Dan Rather — Managing Editor, HD Net, former anchor CBS News

Dean Hirsch — President, World Vision International

Douglas L. Foshee — Chairman, President and CEO, El Paso Corporation

Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE — Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace

Eduardo Braga — Governor, Amazonas, Brazil

Eric Carlson — President, Carbonfund.org Foundation

Frank Loy — Former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs

Fred Krupp — President, Environmental Defense Fund

Frances Beinecke — President, NRDC

George Soros — Founder, Open Society Foundations

Helen Clark — Administrator, U.N. Development Programme, former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Helene Gayle — President and CEO, CARE USA

Henry Paulson — Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

Howard Schultz — Chairman, President and CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company

James (Gus) Speth — Former Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University

Jens Stoltenberg — Prime Minister of Norway

Jim Leape — Director General, WWF International

Jim Rogers — Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, Duke Energy

Joe Aldy — Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Energy and Environment

John Holdren — Director of Science And Technology, Executive Office Of The President Of The United States

Joseph Stiglitz — 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Laureate

Juan Sabines Guerrero — Governor, Chiapas, Mexico

Julia Marton-Lefèvre — Director General, IUCN

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — Environmentalist, Former Lt. Governor, Maryland

Kevin Knobloch — President, Union of Concerned Scientists

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Head of Indonesian President's Delivery Unit for REDD

Larry Schweiger — President, National Wildlife Federation

Linda Adams — Secretary, California Environmental Protection Agency

Mark Tercek — President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy

Michael Morris — Chairman, President and CEO, American Electric Power

Michele Wucker — Executive Director, World Policy Institute

Nancy Lindborg — President, Mercy Corps

Peggy Dulany — Founder and Chair, Global Philanthropists Circle

Peter Darbee — CEO, President and Chairman of the Board, PG&E Corporation

Peter Seligmann — Chairman and CEO, Conservation International

Raymond Offenheiser — President, Oxfam US

Richard A. Houghton — Acting Director, Woods Hole Research Center

Rob Sisson — President and CEO, Republicans for Environmental Protection

Rob Walton — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Walmart

Robert A. Iger — President and CEO, The Walt Disney Company

Robert Zoellick — President, World Bank

Rodger Schlickeisen — President, Defenders of Wildlife

Russell Mittermeier — President, Conservation International

Sir Richard Branson — Founder, Virgin Group

Steve Kline — Vice President, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation

Steve McCormick — President, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Steven E. Sanderson — President and CEO, Wildlife Conservation Society

Stuart Eizenstat — Former US Ambassador, Attorney, Covington & Burling LLP

Teresa Heinz — Chair of The Heinz Endowments

Tensie Whelan — President, Rainforest Alliance

Thomas Friedman — Author, Journalist, The New York Times

Thomas Lovejoy — President, The Heinz Center

Thomas Vilsack — United States Secretary of Agriculture

Timothy E. Wirth — former U.S. Senator and President of the United Nations Foundation

Founding Partners, Active Advisors

Jeff Horowitz — Founding Partner, AD Partners

Charlotte Streck — Founding Partner, AD Partners, Director, Climate Focus B.V.

Rick Saines — ADP founder, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP

Toby Janson-Smith — ADP founder, Senior Director, Conservation International

Robert O'Sullivan — ADP founder, Executive Director, Climate Focus North America

Aimee Christensen — Founder and CEO, Christensen Global Strategies LLC

Annie Petsonk — International Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund

Albert Cho — Manager, McKinsey & Company

Andrew Jones — Director, Climate Group Care USA

Barbara Bramble — Senior Program Advisor, National Wildlife Federation

Benoit Bosquet — Fund Manager, World Bank

Bill Goodfellow — Executive Director, Center for International Policy

Cassie Pataky — U.S. Director, The Green Belt Movement

Charles McNeill — Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Energy Group, UNDP

Christopher Shore — Director, World Vision International

Dan Zarin — Senior Advisor, Packard Foundation

Daniel Nepstad — Moore Foundation

Doug Boucher — Director Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative, Union of Concerned Scientists

Duncan Marsh — Director International Climate Policy, The Nature Conservancy

Eric Haxthausen — Senior Policy Advisor Climate Change, The Nature Conservancy

Gerrity Lansing — President, Equator Environmental LLP

Glenn Prickett — Senior Vice-President, Conservation International

Gus Silva-Chavez — Intl. Climate Change Policy, Environmental Defense Fund

Jake Schmidt — International Climate Change Policy Director, NRDC

Joanna Durbin — Director Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA)

John O. Niles — Director, Tropical Forest Group

Katherine Hamilton — Manager, Ecosystem Marketplace

Margaret Dick — West Coast Director, AD Partners - Staff

Marty McBroom — Director Federal Environmental Affairs, American Electric Power

Nigel Purvis — President, Climate Advisers

Per Fredrik Ilsaas Pharo — Deputy Director General, Government of Norway

Rachel Arends — Project Manager, AD Partners - Staff

Ryan Cunningham — Senior Associate, Glover Park Group

Tracy Johns — Policy Advisor, Woods Hole Research Center

Wanjira Mathai — Executive Director, Green Belt Movement

William Boyd — Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado

Event Attendees and General Supporters (partial)

Abyd Karmali — Global Head Of Carbon Emissions, Merrill Lynch

Adele Simmons — Vice Chairman, The Burnham Plan Centennial

Alan Chang — Principal Asian Investments, Capricorn Investment Group LLC

Aldo De Cresti Neto — Partner, Fleury Malheiros, Gasparini, De Cresci e Nogueira de Lima Advogados

Andrew Bowman — Director, Climate Change Initiative, Doris Duke Foundation

Andrew Mitchell — Director, Global Canopy Programme

Anna Creed — Associate, The Prince's Rainforest Trust

Bart Simmons — Chief Operating Officer, Ecosystem Restoration Assoc. Inc.

Bernard Mercer — Forests Philanthropy Action Network, UK

Bill Townsend — CEO, Blue Source

Blake Schaefer — Stark Investments

Brad Gentry — Yale School of Forestry

Brent Swallow — Global Coordinator of the ASB Partnership, CGIAR

Brer Adams Macquarie — Senior Manager, Capital Products Limited

Brian Murray Nicholas — Director for Economic Analysis, Nicholas Institute

Carina Bracer — Manager, The Katoomba Group

Carol Saint-Laurent — Senior Forest Policy Officer, IUCN

Carter Bales — Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company

Charles Ehrhart — Climate Change Coordinator, CARE International

Charles Barber — Environmental Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development

Chris Tuite — Director of Forest Carbon Markets, Conservation International

Christiana Figueres — Global Climate Change Analyst, Costa Rica

Colin Le Duc — Head Of Research, Generation Investment Management LLP

Cristina Del Rio — Senior Research Associate, Rockefeller Foundation

Cynthia McClintock — President Board, Center For International Policy

Dan Lashof — Science Director, NRDC

Dan Kammen — Director Renewable and Appropriate Energy, University Of California

David Struhs — VP Environmental Affairs, International Paper Company

David Williamson — Principal, Beveridge & Diamond

David Brand — Managing Director, New Forests

David Hayes — Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department Of The Interior

David Jhirad — Vice President, Rockefeller Foundation

David Waskow — Climate Change Program Director, Oxfam US

Deborah Spalding — Managing Partner, Working Lands LLC

Dharsono Hartono — Project Developer, PT. Rimba Makmur Utama

Diana Glassman — Head Environmental Business Group-Americas Credit Suisse

Dirk Brinkman — Director & President, Brinkman & Associates Reforestation LTD

Don Melnick — Executive Director, Center for Environment, Economy and Society, Columbia University

Donald Kanak — Consultant on REDD for WWF International

Donna Lee — U.S. Department Of State, Office of Global Change

Dorjee Sun — CEO, Carbon Conservation Pty

Edwin Aalders — Executive Director, IETA

Eric Bettelheim — Chairman, Sustainable Forestry Management, UK

Federica Bietta — Deputy Director, Coalition for Rainforest Nations

Franz Tattenbach — Executive Director, Fundecor, Costa Rica

Fred Stolle — Program Manager for Forests in Southeast Asia, World Resources Institute

Gabe Petlin — Director, 3 Degrees

Geoffrey Heal — Professor of Public Policy, Columbia University

Gia Schneider — Eko Asset Management Partners

Gonzalo Castro — Managing Director, Sustainable Forestry Management

Greg Spencer — President, Blue Source LLC

Hans Brattskar — Director International Climate and Forest Initiative, Government of Norway

Holly Fechner — Attorney, Counsel Covington & Burling LLP

Hylton Murray-Philipson — Special Advisor, The Prince's Rainforest Project

Ivan Barkhorn — Managing Director, Redstone Strategies

Jack Gibbs — Project Director, The Prince's Rainforests Project

Jacob Scherr — Director, International Program, NRDC

Jaime Russell — Senior Director, Clinton Climate Initiative

James Cameron — Vice Chairman, Climate Change Capital

James Lyons — Vice President for Policy and Communications, Oxfam US

Jan Hartke — Director, Clinton Global Initiative

Jan Fehse — Principal Consultant, Head of Forestry Services, EcoSecurities

Jason Scott — Co- Founder, Eko Asset Management Partners

Jason Miner — Vice President, Glover Park Group

Jason R. Patrick — Carbon Emissions, Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc.

Jean Oelwang — CEO, Virgin Unite

Jean-Philippe Brisson — Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Jeff Campbell — Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Jeff Waldon — Executive Director, Tropical Forest Foundation

Jeremy Oppenheim — Director, McKinsey & Company, UK

Jesse Fink — Managing Director, Mission Point Capital

Jessica Bailey — Program Officer, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Jim Levitt — Director, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology

Johannes Ebeling — Senior Consultant, EcoSecurities

John Van D. Lewis — Managing Director, Terra Global Capital

John Stowell — VP Environmental Health and Society Policy, Duke Energy

John Forgach — Chairman, Equator Environmental LLP

Jorge Rodriguez — Vice-Minister of the Environment, Costa Rica

Joseph Gleberman — Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Josh Mailman — President, Sirius Business Corporation

Karen Foerstel — Communications, The Nature Conservancy

Keister Evans — Executive Director, Tropical Forest Foundation

Ken Newcombe — CEO, C- Quest Capital

Kevin Henry — Executive Director for Development Foundations, Care USA

Kevin Hogan — Advisor, President of Guyana

Kyle Danish — Partner, Van Ness Feldman P.C.

Larry Linden — Chairman, Resources for the Future

Laurie Wayburn — President, The Pacific Forest Trust

Lee Stein — Chairman, Prize Capital

Leslie Durschinger — Managing Director, Terra Global Capital

Leslie Aun — Vice President Communications, World Wildlife Fund

Lila Preston — Generation Investment Management LLP, UK

Linda Krueger — Policy Director, Wildlife Conservation Society

Lisa Handy — Senior Director, Conservation International

Lucio Pedroni — Director, Carbon Decisions, Costa Rica

Lydia Olander — Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Maguy Maccario — Consul General, Consulate General of Monaco

Marc Stuart — Co-founder, EcoSecurities

Maria Blair — Associate Vice-President, The Rockefeller Foundation

Marisa Martin — Attorney, Baker & McKenzie LLP

Matt Ogonowski — Senior Policy Analyst, Center For Clean Air Policy

Michael Jenkins — President and CEO, Forest Trends

Michael Levi — Fellow for Science & Technology, Council on Foreign Relations

Michelle Passero — Senior Climate Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy

Neal Keny-Guyer — CEO, Mercy Corps

Neil Cohn — Environmental Financial Products, Macquarie Bank Limited

Nick Welch — Head of Stakeholder Relations, Shell International

Nitya Mohan Khemka — Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation

Oliver Yates — Executive Director, Macquarie Capital Products Limited, Australia

Pablo Farias — Vice President, Ford Foundation

Paul Ezekiel — Managing Director, Credit Suisse

Pedro Moura Costa — Co-founder, EcoSecurities

Pedro Leon — General Coordinator, Peace with Nature, Costa Rica

Peter Frumhoff — Chief Scientist Climate Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists

Peter Goldmark — Director, Environmental Defense Fund

Peter Jenkins — Director of International Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife

Peter Stein — President, The Lyme Timber Company

Peter Schwabach — Managing Partner, Thurlestone Capital, UK

Radha Kuppalli — Director, New Forests Inc.

Ralph Ashton — Chair, Terrestrial Carbon Group

Rhett Butler — Mongabay

Ricardo Bayon — Co-Founder, EKO Asset Management Partners

Richard Gilbert — Economic Department Chair, University of California at Berkeley

Richard Moss — Managing Director Climate Change Program, World Wildlife Fund

Robert Falls — President and CEO, Ecosystem Restoration Associates Inc

Roger Ullman — Executive Director, Linden Trust for Conservation

Ruben Kraiem — Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Sarah Hines — Presidential Management Fellow, US Department Of Agriculture

Scott Hajost — U.S. Executive Director, IUCN

Scott Settelmeyer — Co-Founder and Managing Director, TerraCarbon LLC

Scott Poynton — Executive Director, Tropical Forest Trust

Stanislas Kamanzi — Minister of Lands Environment, Forestry, Water and Mines, Rwanda

Steve Kline — Vice President Corporate Environmental and Federal Affairs, PG&E Corporation

Steve Colwell — Executive Director, Sea Change Foundation

Steve Schwartzman — Environmental Defense Fund, Co-Director International Program

Steven Hamburg — Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

Stewart Maginnis — Head of Forest Programme, IUCN

Tanja Havemann — Associate, Thurlestone Capital, UK

Tim Warman — Executive Director for Solving Global Warming, National Wildlife Federation

Tony Brunello — Deputy Secretary, California Resources Agency

Uday Khemka — Managing Director, Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation

Warwick Manfrinato — Director, Plant Environmental Intelligence LTD, Brazil

Walt Reid — Director of the Conservation and Science Program, Packard Foundation

Wolfgang Ortloff — Director of Environmental Asset Management, Equator Environmental

Financial Contributors: Public & Private:

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The Government of Norway

The Goldman Fund

The Betsy And Jesse Fink Foundation

Equator Environmental, LLC

Macquarie Group Limited

Pacific Gas & Electric Company

3Degrees

Ecosystems Restoration Associates

Carbon Credit Corp

Duke Energy

178 Countries where AD Partners is followed: