Kristen Rechberger

Kristin Rechberger is CEO of Dynamic Planet, which helps advance markets that restore nature. Dynamic Planet’s portfolio includes expanding effectively managed marine and land protected areas and community conservancies that are developing conservation markets for sustainable financing; working with public and private sector partners on the forefront of nature-based solutions for climate; and building private and public funds with strong impact methodologies that are focused on growing natural capital. Formerly Senior Vice President of Global Programs and Partnerships at the National Geographic Society, Kristin is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and serves on its Global Sustainable Tourism Council, as well as the boards of Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund, National Geographic Pristine Seas, Ocean Exploration Trust, Smithsonian Institution’s Earth Optimism, The Environmental Investigation Agency, The Environmental Film Festival, Mongabay, The Circulars Accelerator, and, at her home base in Washington, DC, Friends of Anacostia Park. Kristin has a policy degree from Duke University, was a 1995 Luce Scholar in Seoul, Korea and has completed executive programs at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Oxford.