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Steven J. McCormick, Former President and Chief Executive Officer
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Biography of Steve McCormick
Transformational change at a global scale was the hallmark of Steve McCormick’s management style at The Nature Conservancy. Since becoming president in 2001, Steve has transformed The Nature Conservancy into the world’s largest environmental organization with operations in all 50 states and more than 30 countries.
In a few highlights from 2006 alone, the Conservancy penned an agreement to protect 218,000 acres of forestland across 10 states in the single largest private land conservation sale in the history of the south, expanded conservation activities into Africa and reached new revenue records. In fall 2006, the Conservancy launched its new vision for global conservation.
Recognizing that global leadership requires accountability, Steve also spearheaded major organizational reform adopting Sarbanes-Oxley based management guidelines unprecedented in the non-profit sector.
Under his leadership, the Conservancy launched conservation initiatives with dozens of global corporations that realize that conserving the planet’s natural capital delivers valuable, tangible, long-term benefits to the bottom line.The Conservancy has aggressively pursued public-private partnerships with federal, state and local governments, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Defense, to improve the management of dams and rivers and government-owned lands across the country.
At the international level, the Conservancy has helped to broker complex, pioneering financing mechanisms including debt-swaps, market-based strategies and private investment partnerships that provide new approaches and funding sources for critical conservation work.
Joining the conservancy shortly after law school, Steve rose through the ranks to become director of the California program for more than sixteen years. During that time he chaired the committee that developed Conservation by Design, the guiding scientific approach behind the Conservancy’s work to this day.
Steve has a B.S. Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Berkeley (1973), where he graduated with honors, and a J.D. Degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law (1976). He also attended the Stanford Executive Program in 1993. Steve sits on several Boards, including the Sustainable Forestry Board, Harvard Dialogue Group Advisory Panel and the Advisory Board of the U.C. Berkeley College of Natural Resources.
