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David Batker is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earth Economics. He completed his graduate training in economics under Herman Daly, one of the world's foremost ecological economists. Dave has taught in the Training Department of the World Bank, and has worked for Greenpeace International, specializing in trade and international finance. He also worked for two years with the Rural Reconstruction Movement, a Philippine non-profit group dedicated to ecologically sound community-based development.
Contact:
dbatker@eartheconomics.org
Isabel de la Torre is the Co-Founder and Special Projects, Development, and Communications Director of Earth Economics. Isabel was Executive Director of the Industrial Shrimp Action Network (ISA Net) and the United States Society for Ecological Economics before joining Earth Economics. She organized and co-founded ISA Net and the South East Asia Fishers for Justice. She has worked with local and national governments around the world, and NGOs working on international institutions on trade, finance, energy, forestry, fishery, toxics, environmental justice, indigenous peoples, coastal management, women, and human rights issues. She has bachelor degrees in communications and law and worked as a reporter, newspaper editor, and senior legal staff in the Philippines.
Contact: idelatorre@eartheconomics.org
Tedi Dickinson graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Geography. Following, she returned to UC, received a Teaching Credential and worked as a classroom teacher in California for eight years. In 1996, Tedi moved to the Puget Sound area to open a regional office for the American Institute of Marine Studies (AIMS), a non-profit marine educational foundation. As the Seattle director, Tedi managed the business operations, developed the Institute's education program and supervised fund-raising. She now serves as Earth Economics' Business Manager.
Contact:
tdickinson@eartheconomics.org
Marta Ceroni, Regular Consultant
 Marta Ceroni is a research professor at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont with interests in biodiversity and ecosystem services in natural and managed systems. She holds a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Parma, Italy. Her current work includes field assessments and valuations of ecosystem services for conservation with a special interest in countries with transitioning economies (e.g. Eastern Europe). She is also involved in the documentation and formalization of ecosystem service knowledge for use in public access databases and the study of policy mechanisms for sustainable forest management. She teaches ethnobotany from an ecological economic perspective in the Honors College at the UVM.
 Jon Erickson is a consultant for Earth Economics. He is Associate Professor of Ecological Economics at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont and completed his Ph.D. and M.S. in Natural Resource Economics at Cornell University (1997, 1993). His current work includes a workbook on a problem-based approach to learning and applying ecological economics (Island Press, 2005), community-based sustainable watershed management, private-public land conservation economics and policy, macroeconomic reform in developing nations, greenhouse gas and renewable energy economics, and the ecological economics of infectious disease epidemics. Jon has served on the boards of the International and U.S. Societies for Ecological Economics, Conservation and Research Foundation, Adirondack Research Consortium, and Saratoga Open Space Project.
Contact: Jon.Erickson@uvm.edu
Web Page: www.uvm.edu/~jdericks/
Richard Gutierrez is a licensed practitioner of law in the Philippines. He was previously with the Manila affiliate office of Baker & McKenzie, where he worked for almost 3 years on international project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and international trade and investments. In late 1999, he took leave and pursued a Master of Laws degree in Columbia University in New York. At Columbia, his interest towards the environment was rekindled to such an extent that after finishing his Master's degree, he joined BAN in early 2001. Richard is now BAN's resident Toxics Policy Analyst.
Contact:
rgutierrez@eartheconomics.org
 Maya Kocian graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor's degree in Economics. During her years at PLU she studied abroad in both Latin America and Europe. In 2006 Maya joined Earth Economics as a research analyst. She has contributed to several projects including a determination of the potential effects of oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park, a pristine environment of the Ecuadorian Amazon, and she contributed to the ecosystem services valuation study of the region. While in Ecuador, she produced and designed briefs used by the Ecuadorian delegation at the 2007 United Nations Climate Change. Maya has attended and participated in local, national and international workshops and conferences which apply to Ecological Economics.
Contact:
mkocian@eartheconomics.org
James Pittman is the Managing Director of Earth Economics responsible for managing strategic priorities, finances, staff, programs as well as public and private sector consulting projects. Previously he spent several years as a Senior Consultant serving clients such as the Washington State Department of Ecology, the King Conservation District, the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks with a focus on ecosystem service modeling, sustainability indicator assessment and stakeholder engagement facilitation. He holds a MSc degree with distinction in ecological economics from the University of Edinburgh, completing a dissertation on participatory assessment of water resource management strategies. He has over a decade of sustainability consulting experience with non-profit, education, business, government and public utility clients at local, regional and national scales and currently teaches applied systems thinking and dynamic modeling at the prestigious Bainbridge Graduate Institute in the Sustainable Business MBA program.
Contact:
jpittman@eartheconomics.org
Jim Puckett has been an environmental health and justice activist for 22 years. In the past he served as Greenpeace International's Toxics Director and before that, as co-coordinator of Greenpeace's Toxic Trade campaign, both posts being based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Greenpeace Toxic Trade Campaign was instrumental in achieving the Basel Ban as well as numerous regional waste trade bans. In 1997 he left Greenpeace to return to Seattle to help found Earth Economics and the Basel Action Network program. He has represented civil society within the Basel Convention since its inception in 1989 and has traveled extensively researching, writing, producing films and campaigning against all forms of toxic trade.
Contact:
jpuckett@eartheconomics.org
Yuka Takamiya, a Japanese citizen, joined Earth Economics in December 2004. Yuka holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Gakushuin University, Tokyo, and a Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies (Environmental Sociology and Anthropology) from Oregon State University. She uses her fluency in both Japanese and English to act as a bridge between Japan, the US, and the greater Asian environmental community. She has attended workshops and conferences around the globe in pursuit of raising awareness of the dangers of toxic waste and environmental justice.
Contact:
yuka@eartheconomics.org
Lobsang Tsering, Project Associate, has a B.A. degree from Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Varanasi, India and an M.A. degree on Sustainable International Development from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Lobsang experience includes extensive environmental and sustainable development project work in both India and the United States and translation of UN materials and covenants into the Tibetan language. He is Earth Economics' project manager for the Greater Asian Watershed Project.
Contact:
ltsering@eartheconomics.org
Sarah Westervelt is the e-Waste Project Coordinator at the Basel Action Network (BAN), and the Reuse/Recycling Chairperson for the Electronics TakeBack Coalition. Her work includes administering the Electronic Recycler’s Pledge of True Stewardship, developing the e-Steward’s certification program, educating the public about issues associated with exporting e-waste, as well as highlighting the worst-case scenarios. Sarah co-authored BAN exposés including films and reports documenting horrific “recycling” in China and Nigeria. Through programs, policy, and education, the e-Waste Project provides guidance to go beyond inadequate regulations and practices, and better understand existing international laws that pertain to trade in toxic wastes. Sarah has a Master’s Degree in Organizational Systems Renewal from Antioch University, and worked for years as a consultant in organizational development before joining the Basel Action Network in 2001.
Contact:
swestervelt@eartheconomics.org
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