The Nature Conservancy. Protecting nature. Preserving life.™

Mark Tercek

President and CEO

Brief Biography  

Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s leading conservation organization working around the world to save the lands and waters that sustain all life. The Conservancy uses a science-based, collaborative approach to solve complex global challenges: conserving critical lands, restoring the world’s oceans, securing fresh water and reducing the impacts of climate change.

Before joining The Nature Conservancy, Mark was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he played a key role in developing the firm’s environmental strategy. He headed the firm’s Environmental Strategy Group and Center for Environmental Markets, which worked to develop and promote market-based solutions to environmental challenges. Mark also headed various business units at the firm, including Corporate Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Consumer/Healthcare and Leadership Development.  Mark also led Pine Street -- Goldman Sachs' leadership development program for the firm's Managing Directors and clients.

Mark is a member of several boards and councils, including Resources for the Future, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the National Petroleum Council and the Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Recent Blog Posts

In the News

Protecting Nature Through "Radical Collaboration" 
The Huffington Post, March 1, 2011

Natural Causes
Wall Street Journal Magazine, June 2010

Seeing REDD With the Nature Conservancy's Mark Tercek
Greenbiz.com, September 14, 2009

Redefining Conservation in the 21st Century (Video interview)
Aspen Institute, March 2009

Publications

Protecting Forests and Lands through Environmental Markets and Finance

February 10, 2009
Published by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Take a Global View of Climate Change 

March 24, 2010 Op-ed in Politico by Mark and Oxfam USA president Raymond C. Offenheiser on the need to help communities adapt to climate change.

Read Mark Tercek's Full Biography

Mark Tercek

President and CEO

 

Read Mark Tercek's Full Biography

Mark Tercek

President and CEO

 

Read Mark Tercek's Full Biography

Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s leading conservation organization working around the world to save the lands and waters that sustain all life. The Conservancy uses a science-based, collaborative approach to solve complex global challenges: conserving critical lands, restoring the world’s oceans, securing fresh water and reducing the impacts of climate change.

Before joining The Nature Conservancy, Mark was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he played a key role in developing the firm’s environmental strategy. He headed the firm’s Environmental Strategy Group and Center for Environmental Markets, which worked to develop and promote market-based solutions to environmental challenges. Mark also headed various business units at the firm, including Corporate Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Consumer/Healthcare and Leadership Development.  Mark also led Pine Street -- Goldman Sachs' leadership development program for the firm's Managing Directors and clients.

Mark is a member of several boards and councils, including Resources for the Future, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the National Petroleum Council and the Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mark earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1984 and a B.A. from Williams College in 1979.