Eric is responsible for institutional planning and priorities and all fundraising operations. He also leads AWF’s Executive Leadership Committee and supports the AWF Board of Trustees. His oversight across these areas ensures full and efficient day-to-day integration between fundraising, programming, and execution strategies and operations. Eric started his conservation work in the backcountry of U.S. national parks and later western Uganda. Over the past 20 years, he has played key roles in program design, addressing a diverse set of conservation strategies, and he engaged institutional partners with the Environmental Law Institute, Earth Day Network, Conservation International, and Rare. He has worked across Africa for more than two decades and has also worked in Southeast Asia and with island states.