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Leif Christoffersen is a Founder at the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, a nonprofit environmental organization focused on linking businesses to sustainable resources and conservation efforts, as well as educating them about the importance of biodiversity. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Christoffersen served as the Biodiversity Manager at the Diversa Corporation and managed biodiversity collaborations and bioprospecting efforts in Alaska, Antarctica, Australia, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Ghana, Hawaii, Indonesia, Kenya, Puerto Rico, Russia, and South Africa; he also managed Diversa’s biodiversity collaboration with the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES). From 1995 to 2000, he served as the Vice President for the World Foundation for Environment and Development (WFED), working with Yellowstone National Park and the National Park Service; he also worked with the National Institute for Biodiversity in Costa Rica and the Center for Ecological Research and BioResources Development in Russia, developing bioprospecting programs and facilitating negotiations for benefit-sharing arrangements with biotech companies. While at WFED, Mr. Christoffersen also served as a Climate Change consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme. Previously, Mr. Christoffersen had worked for CARE International in marketing, public relations, and environmental monitoring and evaluation in Costa Rica, Kenya, and Norway. Mr. Christoffersen received his B.A. in Economics from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, where he won the Elizabeth and Ruth Young Peace Prize. He is scheduled to graduate with an M.B.A. from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, in August 2007.
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