Our Team

Patricia Zurita posing with group of girls

Secretariat

Patricia Zurita
Executive Director

Inês Castro
Program Coordinator

Lisa Dean
Senior Director for Finance and Information Management

Amy Gilbert
Grant Coordinator

Laura Johnston
Grant Coordinator

Bobbie Jo Kelso
Senior Director for External Affairs

Nina Marshall
Managing Director

Kevin McNulty
Finance Coordinator

Adam Nilsen
Information and Finance Manager

Kristina Razon
Grant Coordinator

Daniel Rothberg
Grant Director

Emily Rudge
Assistant, External Affairs

Julie Shaw
Writer/Editor

Deborah Spayd
Director, Grants Management Unit

Jack Tordoff
Grant Director

John Watkin
Grant Director

Michele Zador
Grant Director

Regional focal points

Eastern Himalayas
Sarala Khaling
Regional Coordinator, CEPF Coordination Unit
WWF-Nepal Programme
Kathmandu, Nepal

Indo-Burma
John Pilgrim
Grant Manager, CEPF Regional Implementation Team
BirdLife International in Indochina
Hanoi, Vietnam

Polynesia-Micronesia
Leilani Duffy
Grant Manager, CEPF Regional Implementation Team
Conservation International Pacific Islands Program
Apia, Samoa

Western Ghats
Bhaskar Acharya
Project Coordinator, CEPF Regional Implementation Team
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, India