Mark Tercek

Athlete, Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Parent, Philanthropist, World traveler

Mark Tercek served as the Chief Execuitve Officer of The Nature Conservancy from July 2008 to June 2019. Prior to that, he was managing director and Partner for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 24 years. Currently he is an independent consultant advising companies, investors, and NGOs on environmental strategies. In 2012, Mr. Tercek was appointed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve on the New York State 2100 Commission, which was created in the wake of Superstorm Sandy to advise the governor and the state on how to make the state’s infrastructure more resilient to future storms. He is a member of several boards and councils, including the President’s Advisory Council for Resources for the Future, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, the Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health, Acumen, and the AXA Stakeholders Advisory Panel. He serves on the Williams College Board of Trustees and was on the finance faculty of New York University's Stern School of Business until 2008. Mr. Tercek also regularly writes and speaks at conferences on environmental topics. He is a champion of the idea of natural capital — valuing nature for its own sake as well as for the services it provides for people, such as clean air and water, productive soils and a stable climate. He is the author of the Washington Post and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling book Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. Mr. Tercek earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1984 and a B.A. from Williams College in 1979.

Family, environment, education, fitness, sports, poverty reduction, economic development, leadership development, travel.

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