Executive Team

Michael Jenkins
Michael Jenkins is Publisher of the Ecosystem Marketplace. He is the founding President of Forest Trends. Forest Trends, a Washington D.C. based non profit organization, was created in 1999 by leaders from conservation organizations, forest product firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private investment funds, and foundations.
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Ricardo Bayon
Ricardo Bayon is the Director of the Ecosystem Marketplace. For nearly a decade he has been focusing on issues related to finance, socially responsible investment (SRI), and the environment. He has been a fellow of the New America Foundation and done work for a number of organizations, including Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Domini Social Investments, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank, Forest Trends, The Nature Conservancy, the UN Foundation, IUCN, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others.

He can be contacted at: rbayon@ecosystemmarketplace.com
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Adam Davis
Adam Davis is a strategic advisor to the Ecosystem Marketplace. He also serves as President of Solano Partners, Inc., a consulting firm focused on environmental economics and conservation finance issues. His work at Solano Partners is focused on the development of financial value from conservation and restoration activities on private property, and on economic incentives for environmental outcomes in many other contexts.
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Staff

Katherine Hamilton
Katherine Hamilton is the carbon project manager at Ecosystem Marketplace. Before joining Ecosystem Marketplace, she earned a masters degree at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she focused on corporate environmental management and wrote her thesis on the voluntary carbon market.
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Amanda Hawn
Amanda Hawn is the Editor of the Ecosystem Marketplace. She has a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, conducting research in the United States, the Netherlands Antilles, Botswana, Tanzania and South Africa.

She can be contacted at: ahawn@ecosystemmarketplace.com
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Nathaniel Carroll
Nathaniel is a project manager with both the Ecosystem Marketplace and the Ecosystem Services Program of Forest Trends. He has been with the Ecosystem Marketplace since early in its development and has also worked as project lead for Forest Trends' Business Development Facility.
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Contributors

• Sara Scherr
• Mira Inbar
• Toby Janson-Smith
• Jeremy Sokulsky