James is an action-oriented, senior-level international development leader with proven track record mobilizing large, multi-cultural teams to achieve goals under challenging conditions. Extensive experience in strategic planning, environmental policy and program design and implementation, institutional capacity building, interorganizational negotiation and coalition building.

Broad-based technical understanding of nature-based climate solutions, ecological resilience and natural resources management (e.g., forest, freshwater, fisheries, and coastal ecosystems). Well-versed in approaches to both community-based natural resource management and landscape- and seascape-scale integrated biodiversity conservation and development which contribute to the livelihood security of resource-dependent communities. Several years of field experience in Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, and Indonesia

Experienced in the design and implementation of effective project interventions. Several years of business development experience, having worked on developing proposals to a wide variety of donor organizations. Project management skills include proposal writing; project design and implementation; PMP, and work plan development; reporting; developing and monitoring project budgets; design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks.