Swati became engaged with the NNH movement when she worked with WILD to design a pilot project to test the NNH approach in India. She drew on her experience at the Wildlife Conservation Trust in India where she helped organize inter-governmental consultations on trans-boundary ecosystems. She was the Assistant Editor of Sanctuary Asia for five years, where she piloted an India-Pakistan initiative to declare the Siachen Glacier a trans-boundary peace park and managed a series of national-level roundtables on tiger conservation.

Randy has been described in the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull.” He is Executive Director at Foundation Earth, a new organization rethinking a human order that works within the planet’s life support systems. He is a special advisor to the World Future Council.

Carly Vynne, PhD, is principal consultant at Osprey Insights and a Strategic Partner at RESOLVE. She has overseen conservation planning processes in Asia, Africa, and South America, and recently established several public-private partnerships to create impactful conservation programs across the western United States and arctic Alaska. She manages the Quick Response Biodiversity Fund, and is helping to develop other creative solutions for nature in a rapidly changing world.

Don is the Executive Director of the Weeden Foundation, which supports a wide range of programs that aim to preserve biodiversity, nationally and internationally. The Foundation funded the first Debt-for-Nature Swap, creating the Beni Biosphere Reserve in Bolivia and has helped preserve more than 6,000,000 acres of biologically important habitat worldwide. Don is co-founder of the Quick Response Biodiversity Fund, a grant making mechanism for critical habitat acquisitions worldwide that is a project of the Nature Needs Half Network. He is co-chair of International grant making at the Biodiversity Funder Group.

James is a director, cinematographer, and founder of First Light Films, which specializes in producing science-based environmental films to leverage social change. He has garnered numerous awards in thirty five years working on more than one hundred films for PBS, BBC, TBS, Discovery, ABC, CBS, NBC, and National Geographic Television.

Tanya is a Program Manager at Google Earth Outreach, which uses Google’s mapping technology and cloud platform for public benefit applications. Prior to Google, she researched and mapped human elephant conflict with the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society. At Google, she established the Geo Grants program delivering enterprise mapping software for free to over 6000 nonprofit organizations and leads Geo for Good’s Conservation-related efforts (one example project is Street View of Elephants).

Vance joined WILD as president in 1984 after 15 years in international business and non-profit management. An innovative leader known for bridging the interests of people and nature, he is an acknowledged expert in international nature conservation and wilderness protection and is the founder and current co-chairman of the IUCN Wilderness Specialist Group. For more information about Vance, please visit his  wikipedia page .

Dr. Eric Dinerstein brings more than four decade’s hands-on experience saving endangered large mammals and tropical rainforest habitat to the Nature Needs Half Network. In partnership with the Weedon Foundation, Eric established the Biodiversity Quick Response Fund, an innovative funding solution that provides urgent protections to endangered species in developing countries.  From 1990 to 2014, Eric was the Chief Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund. Currently, he is the founder and director of the Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions Program at RESOLVE.