Andrew Seidl
Professor of environmental and development economics at Colorado State University and Senior Technical Advisor to the UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative
Andrew (Andy) Seidl is a Colorado State University professor of environmental and development economics and Senior Technical Advisor to the UNDP Biodiversity Finance Initiative. His work focuses on natural resource-based economic development and private (agricultural) lands conservation, policy, and finance in the United States and biodiversity finance, policy, and World Heritage tourism internationally. He has worked with the Brazilian government in the Pantanal (CPAP-EMBRAPA), International Union for Conservation of Nature, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Food and Agricultural Organization, and United Nations Development Program. Andrew has been an Erasmus Mundus, Nutrien Agricultural Sciences, and Fulbright Scholar and has enjoyed visiting professorships at the Central American Institute for Business Administration (INCAE), Costa Rica, University of Manchester, UK, Central European University, Hungary, University of Trento, Italy, and Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. Andrew has been active in national and international policy formation and training including: the US Farm Bill (Conservation title); the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Strategic Plan and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP); the UNEP Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative; the UN Development Program’s biodiversity finance initiative (BIOFIN); an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) project addressing natural capital dependence and environmental mainstreaming in the Pacific (MACBIO); and the UN Convention on Sustainable Development (CSD), focusing on green economy and environmental mainstreaming issues.