Focus
John brings 15 years of consulting and project management experience working with business, government, and non-profit clients throughout North America and Asia . A resident of Indonesia for more than 5 years, he also has experience managing international development programs on behalf of clients such as the International Finance Corporation, United Nations, corporations, and a variety of NGOs and private foundations. Work in this area includes conducting business assessments, feasibility studies, and financial planning for economic development, microfinance and biodiversity conservation programs.
In recent years John has developed a practice advising governments and practitioners on effective management and financial strategies for national parks and other forms of land management. He has conducted detailed financial planning exercises for more than 15 protected forest and marine areas and has led efforts to design sustainable financing strategies for regional and national protected area systems in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand , Cambodia, Fiji, Palau, and Mongolia.
John is also a co-founder and the Managing Director of the Conservation and Community Investment Forum (CCIF), a US-based non-profit.
Previous Experience
Previously John was a Senior Associate with California Environmental Associates and was also a Project Manager for Radian International (Radian D-tech). His previous experience includes designing and implementing environmental and efficiency initiatives for clients in a variety of industries. Key clients have included Raytheon Systems (Arizona and Texas), Hyundai Motor (Korea), the Singapore Economic Development Board, and Duke Energy and Intel (California).
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Key projects
John recently lead teams of experts and government officials in both Thailand (Catalyzing sustainability of Thailand’s Protected Area System) and Mongolia on the assessment, design and development of initiatives to catalyze and strengthen the sustainable financing of their national parks systems – focusing specifically on strengthened legal, policy, and institutional and staff capacity for management and financing of the national systems, as well as the design of financing mechanisms and innovative collaboration approaches at specific parks. John led a successful effort to secure $3.4 million from the GEF, to be matched by $14 million from the Thailand Government, to implement the 5 year initiative. The initiative is still being developed for Mongolia.
John is currently leading assignments to provide technical support and guidance to partner organizations in the Western Pacific region on behalf of the Packard Foundation and the Trust for Conservation Innovation (CCIF). The assignment includes advising the Palau Conservation Society (PCS) and the Locally Managed Marine Area Network (LMMA) in Fiji to develop organizational business plans and a conservation trust fund, respectively.
John was involved in the design and implementation of the Cardamom Mountains PA Network Conservation Trust Business Plan. He led interactions with our clients and partners and assisted the team in developing a full assessment of activities and costs for a network of protected areas in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia, as well as the design of a business plan for a conservation trust fund for the protected area network. Working with Conservation International and Fauna & Flora International and their government partners, Starling developed a comprehensive business plan for a conservation trust fund for the network.
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