John O. (John-O) Niles has published several books and articles on climate change and tropical forests. He has consulted for conservation groups that include The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense, and Conservation International. He has also been an invited advisor to members of the Executive Office of the President (under the Clinton administration), the US Council of Economic Advisors, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, the State Department, the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organization and others.
John-O recently returned as the director of TFG. He had also served as the volunteer director of TFG from its inception in early 2006 until August, 2007. In the interim, John-O was the Chief Science and Policy Officer for Carbon Conservation, a private company using carbon credits to help protect Sumatran and other rainforests. Before that, John-O was the science advisor for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations and he managed the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance. Earlier, he helped managed Pandrillus, a primate conservation program in Nigeria and also was a staff scientist at Stanford University’s Center for Conservation Biology.
Mr. Niles holds a BS in resource economics (University of Vermont) and a MS in biological sciences (Stanford University). He is a visiting scholar at University of California, San Diego in the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution section of Biological Sciences.
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