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Craig Hanson is Director of WRI’s People & Ecosystems Program. In addition, he leads WRI’s new Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services Initiative, which seeks to reduce ecosystem degradation by helping governments, businesses, and multilateral development banks integrate ecosystem service considerations into their decisions. He is the lead author of the Corporate Ecosystem Service Review (ESR), a systematic set of guidelines and methodology that helps corporate managers proactively respond to business risks and opportunities arising from ecosystem degradation.

Prior to becoming Director, Craig managed the Green Power Market Development Group-US and launched the Green Power Market Development Group-Europe. Prior to joining WRI, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for five years. Craig earned an MSc in Environmental Change & Management from Oxford University where he also earned an MA in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics with an emphasis on environmental economics as a Rhodes Scholar. He has a BA from Georgetown University.