A current focus of my activities is to establish and trade Protected Area Tradable Visiting Permits, or PATVIQs, as a way of generating funding for biodiversity conservation.
As a professor I have taught taught business strategy, economics of emerging markets, and other subjects.
As an entrepreneur I have mainly worked with information technology, mostly in banking and finance. I have also worked for Trema, now merged with Wall Street Systems.
I started out my career associated with BRALUP, the Bureau for Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I greatly enjoy field research and environmental consulting, and I have worked in most countries in East Africa.
As a student at Harvard I participated in the Harvard Chiapas Project and wrote my undergraduate thesis on the economy of a Highland Maya village.
At Harvard I probably learned more from my fellow students than from my professors, but I did learn something from some great professors; Irven DeVore, George Homans, Nathan Keyfitz, Thomas Schelling and Evon Z. Vogt.
I even spent one year long ago doing military service in a tank regiment in Denmark
I enjoy outdoor activities, including fieldwork and hiking, and I have included the description of a favorite hike on this site.
I have two children and live near Antibes on the French Riviera.
