John Earhart

Bio

John Earhart is the Chairman of the Board and a founding shareholder of GEF Management Corporation. Mr Earhart serves as Managing Partner on GEF’s forestry team. With extensive experience in international environmental policy and natural resource management, Mr Earhart assumes primary oversight of GEF's environmental analyses, compliance, and outreach processes. As a professional forester, Mr Earhart has served as technical advisor, and helped to structure private equity investments, project finance and international grants for a number of major forest management projects undertaken in the tropical Americas. Mr. Earhart is a member of several boards of directors. Prior to starting GEF, Mr Earhart served as senior fellow to World Wildlife Fund and The Conservation Foundation, and as associate director of the Peace Corps in Paraguay. Mr Earhart is a graduate of California State University Sacramento and received a Master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.