Gerald Miles

Gerald Miles is the Vice President of Strategic Development for WCS Global. He has dedicated his career to innovative partnerships and financing that increase the scale, impact, and sustainability of conservation and development for over 35 years. As an environmental scientist, he spent over a decade working with Pacific Island governments and local partners to negotiate the multilateral agreements that frame many of our global goals today - the CBD, UNFCCC and Global Environment Facility. Since 2003 his focus on national implementation of the Rio Conventions, included the design, creation and launch of major conservation partnerships including the Micronesia Challenge, the Coral Triangle Initiative, and the Global Islands Partnership. His focus on innovative financing and institution-building have been central themes in his career across a range of leadership, policy and development finance roles with the United Nations, Asian Development Bank and Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Program, the Nature Conservancy, Rare and the Environmental Defense Fund. Gerald has lectured in national and international conservation policy at the University of Queensland, Australia and is now based at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, UK.