Peter Shaw Ashton

Peter Shaw Ashton, 1999-Present Charles Bullard Research Professor of Forestry, Harvard University. Cv


 * Center for International Development: Faculty Associates and Researchers

Board Memberships

 * 1980-86 Trustee: Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
 * 1987-89 Medals Committee Member: Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
 * 1980-86  Corporation Member: Boston Museum of Science.
 * 1983-86 Trustee: New England Wildflower Society.
 * 1983-85 First Chairman of the Board: Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership.
 * 1983-94 Trustee: Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership.
 * 1985 -2001 Trustee: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 * 1987-93 President: International Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta.
 * 1987-89 Trustee: Fauna and Flora Preservation Society (U.S.).
 * 1988-93 Founding President: Center for Plant Conservation, Inc.
 * 1989-96 Member, Board of Governors: The Nature Conservancy.

Select Experience
1981 U.S. Dept. of State and AID Strategy Conference on Biological Diversity. Private sector contribution, at Washington, D.C.
 * 1983 Consultant to Ford Foundation to evaluate forest biological research currently undertaken in India.
 * 1984 World Wildlife Fund, U.S., Plant Conservation Program. Participant, scientific advisory meeting to discuss strategies of plant conservation in Latin America, at Washington, D.C.
 * 1986 Rockefeller Foundation. Advisor, contributor of background paper for conference on tropical deforestation, at Bellagio, Italy, 1-2 July 1987.
 * 1987-88 Contract (with T. Panayotou) with International Tropical Timber Organization, through HIID, to review the case for multiple-use management of tropical hardwood forests.
 * 1991 Co-founder of the Center for Tropical Forest Sciences (CTFS) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
 * 1987-90 Conservation efforts of the Malayan Nature Society.  (Acted as principal and agent for this grant to MNS). John D. and Catharine T.MacArthur Foundation

Related Sourcewatch

 * Theodore Panayotou