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Mr. Earhart co-founded GEF in 1990, serving as a founding shareholder and since then as the Chairman of the Board. Mr. Earhart primarily works on GEF’s forestry investment activities. 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 has a BA from California State University Sacramento and an MF from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental
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- • 2,799 investors are based in United States.
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