James N. Levitt

The Program on Conservation Innovation at
The Harvard Forest, Harvard University

PO Box 79218
Waverley, MA 02479 USA
Work: 617-489-7800
Cell: 617-966-1117
james_levitt@harvard.edu

Further Information

www.conservationinnovation.net

Jim Levitt is director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at The Harvard Forest, Harvard University, and a research fellow at the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. His focus is present-day and historic innovation in the practice of land and biodiversity conservation. In addition to his work at Harvard, he also leads the annual Conservation Leadership Dialogue sponsored by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.

Levitt is the editor of Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities (Island Press, 2002), as well as From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance (Island Press, 2005). He has written and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally on conservation innovation in the twenty-first century. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Long-Term Ecological Research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and is a member of the board of several conservation non-profits, including the Massachusetts Audubon Society and QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment.

Levitt is a cum laude graduate of Yale College, with distinction in Anthropology, and holds a Master's in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management. Prior to coming to Harvard, Levitt advised Fortune-25 scale companies on corporate strategy as a principal at GeoPartners Research, Inc. He lives with his wife and their three children in Belmont, Massachusetts.