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Nigel Purvis Named Nature Conservancy Vice President of External Affairs and PolicyArlington, Virginia—April 4, 2005—The Nature Conservancy today announced Nigel Purvis as its new Vice President and Managing Director of External Affairs and Policy. In this role he will be responsible for establishing and carrying forward the Conservancy’s global policy agenda, partnership strategy and public funding program. Purvis brings extensive expertise in international diplomacy and environmental policy to the Conservancy. Since 2003, Purvis has been a senior scholar in the foreign policy program of The Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, DC. At Brookings, he directed the Environment and Development Initiative, a new effort to develop innovative policy solutions to global conservation and energy challenges. From 1997 to 2002, Purvis served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of State where he managed U.S. environmental diplomacy, including most recently as deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. He also served as a senior U.S. negotiator on global climate change, biotechnology and environmental aspects of trade policy. “Nigel’s expertise in conservation policy and international affairs makes him an incredible asset to the Conservancy,” said Steve McCormick, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. “We are delighted to have him on board in this critical role as we address future conservation challenges.” “I have tremendous respect for The Nature Conservancy’s impressive conservation accomplishments and constructive approach to environmental policy,” said Purvis. “I am looking forward to helping the Conservancy advance its global conservation goals.” Purvis is the author of several published works on the global environment, foreign policy and international law. His book The Other War, a collaborative effort with colleagues at Brookings that examines U.S. policies to reduce global poverty, helped convince the U.S. Congress to reform and augment American foreign aid, while also strengthening related environmental safeguards. His essays and interviews on climate change, energy policy and foreign affairs have appeared in leading news outlets, including CNN, BBC and NPR, as well as in major newspapers in the United States, Europe and Japan. Earlier in his career, Purvis worked as an international lawyer at the U.S. State Department, as a securities attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell, and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He holds a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Minnesota. Purvis succeeds Michael J. Coda who passed away in October 2004 after four years of battling a malignant brain tumor. Under Coda’s leadership, the Conservancy took a more active and visible role working with the United States and countries around the world to promote biological diversity, and the Conservancy’s membership increased from 500,000 to an all-time high of 1.2 million. In 1991, Coda led a successful Conservancy-wide effort to review and revise the Conservancy’s mission statement – an important legacy that continues to guide the work of the Conservancy. ### For more information:
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