The Alliance Team


Alliance Management

 

Chris Elliott

Executive Director,  
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

Daniel Zarin

Director of Programs,
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

Judith Henley

Executive Assistant,
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

 

Zoë Rossing

Grants Manager,
Climate and Land Use Alliance


 

Initiative Coordinators

 

Global Climate and Land Use

Daniel Zarin
Director of Programs,
Climate and Land Use Alliance
Washington, DC

 

Indonesia

Chip Fay
Indonesia Initiative Coordinator
Climate and Land Use Alliance, Jakarta

 

United States

Jamie Dean
Program Officer, 
Conservation and Science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation

 

 

 

Brazil

Cristiane Fontes
Brazil Initiative Coordinator
Ford Foundation, Brazil

 

Mexico and Central America

David Kaimowitz
Director, Sustainable Development
Ford Foundation, Mexico

 

 

United States

Walt Reid
Program Director, 
Conservation & Science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation

 


Program Team

 

Aurelio Vianna

Senior Program Officer,
Sustainable Development
Ford Foundation, Rio

 

 

Bob Buschbacher

Brazil Initiative Advisor
Climate and Land Use Alliance


Chip Fay

Indonesia Initiative Coordinator
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

Cristiane Fontes

Brazil Initiative Coordinator
Ford Foundation

 

David Kaimowitz

Director, Sustainable Development
Ford Foundation, Mexico

David Kaimowitz is Ford's director of Sustainable Development. He leads the foundation's natural resource and climate change work globally and is based in the Mexico City office. His grant making focuses on giving poor rural families greater access to and control over forests and other natural resources, with a particular emphasis on indigenous peoples. He does grant making both in support of global projects and in the Mexico and Central America region.

Before joining the foundation in 2006, David was director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia. CIFOR is one of the world's most prominent research centers concerned with tropical forests and is affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Prior to becoming director general, David worked at CIFOR as a researcher, specializing in issues relating to forestry policies and how non-forestry policies and trends affect forests and forest-dependent people.

David has also held professional positions at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) in Costa Rica, the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) in the Netherlands, and the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform (MIDINRA). He has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has written or co-written seven books and published more than 100 scientific publications.

 

Jamie Dean

Program Officer, 
Conservation and Science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation

 

Joseph Ryan

Vice President, Latin America and Program Officer, Transportation
ClimateWorks Foundation

 

 

Kristen Hite

Global Initiative Advisor
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 


Walt Reid

Program Director, 
Conservation & Science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation

 

Avecita Chicchon

Program Director, 
Andes-Amazon Initiative
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

 

Charles McElwee

Acting Vice President of Programs
ClimateWorks Foundation

 

Chris Elliott

Executive Director,  
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

Daniel Zarin

Director of Programs,
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

Heather Wright

Program Officer,
Environmental Conservation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

 

Jason Cole

Senior Environmental Program Officer
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation

 

Kirsten Silvius

Program Officer,
Andes-Amazon Initiative
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation


Luis Solórzano

Program Officer, 
Environmental Science
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

 

Steve Rhee

Program Officer, 
Sustainable Development
Ford Foundation, Jakarta

 

Board

 

Adriana Moreira

Senior Environmental Specialist,
Sustainable Development, World Bank
Latin America and Caribbean Region

 

Chris Elliott

Executive Director,  
Climate and Land Use Alliance

 

Guillermo Castilleja (Chair 2012)

Chief Program Officer, 
Environmental Conservation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

 

Walt Reid

Program Director, 
Conservation & Science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Charles McElwee

Acting Vice President of Programs
ClimateWorks Foundation

 


David Kaimowitz

Director, Sustainable Development
Ford Foundation, Mexico


Myrna Cunningham

Director, 
The Centre for Empowerment and Development of Indigenous Peoples

 

Rezal Kusumaatmadja

Senior Advisor
Mazars Starling Resources