This document provides a summary of Kenneth Andrasko's professional experience and qualifications. He has over 35 years of experience in natural resource management, climate change mitigation, and low emissions development strategies. Some of his roles include developing the $1 billion Forest Carbon Partnership Facility program at the World Bank, managing 35 staff and $32 million projects at Winrock International, and authoring chapters for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has extensive experience managing projects, staff, and budgets around the world.

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Kenneth Andrasko
Home: 6117 Walhonding Road, Bethesda MD 20816 USA
kandrasko3@gmail.com 1-202-210-4752 Skype: ken.andrasko
Natural resources and development consultant, working on:
REDD+ avoided deforestation programs: Key co-developer of $1B FCPF program. Co-led $62m country
proposal to World Bank. Consulting for GCF on REDD+ technical issues. Proposal review.
LEDS (low emissions development): Prior co-chair of LEDS Global Partnership AFOLU Working Group
on land use. Work w/ Asian, African, Latin American LEDS organizations, and LEDS Global Practice.
Proposal development and writing: High success rate on proposals to U.S. State Dept., World Bank,
USEPA, USAID, foundations, companies. Co-led successful $65m Sustainable Water Partnership LWA win
from USAID in 2016. Led 2016 pursuit of big land use commodities finance proposal.
Analyzing & Financing land use: Led major studies of U.S., Russian, tropical, and global forest/ag
mitigation potential and costs. Presentations and drafting guidance document on financing land use.
Vision, strategic planning: Widely appreciated for vision provided in World Bank FCPF program
development, Winrock program modernization. Led environment strategic plan development.
Managing staff, projects, budgets: Managed 35 U.S. staff in 3 units & 200 field staff, in $32m per year
portfolio of field forestry & analytic projects. Selected senior staff. Under budget, 2016. Won New
Business 40% over target. Hired & managed 150 experts for World Bank. Certified, Proj. Management.
Negotiating challenging agreements: Co-led World Bank work with Costa Rica government developing
successful $62m proposal for REDD+. Led 2-year process in FCPF/World Bank developing new standards
for funding REDD+ c. $80m carbon purchase agreements, leading donor governments, World Bank,
indigenous peoples to agree. “Sinks” negotiator on U.S. Clinton Administration's U. N. Framework
Convention on Climate Change Kyoto negotiating team, 1999 to 2001, led by Dept. of State.
Publication writing and editing, and media: Lead author or editor for 7 reports for U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), inc. Forestry chapter in the IPCC Fourth
Assessment Report in 2007, and 2000 Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry.
Diploma recognized my contribution to IPCC’s winning 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Authored or edited 30 technical papers and journal special issues for WRI, World Bank, Cambridge Univ.
Press, MIT Univ. Press, USEPA, UNFAO, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, etc. Wrote 3
published books; & 6 National Public Radio 30-minute shows on indigenous peoples and environment.
Education:
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
Master of Environmental Studies: Natural Resource Policy & Economics, 1986. Quantitative policy
analysis; natural resource economics; tropical deforestation. Field work on biosphere reserve
design in Caribbean funded by U.N. Man and Biosphere Programme, 1985.
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
B.A., Sociology (political science, development), 1974. Honors thesis envir. & political change in
Himalayan valley in Nepal. Kennedy Institute of Politics - Student Advisory Committee.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
EXPERT CONSULTANT
GREEN CLIMATE FUND, UNFCCC FINANCIAL MECHANISM, SOUTH KOREA SEPT. 2015 - CURRENTLY
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTCONSULTANT (part time)
 1 of 3 northern and 3 southern international experts selected by GCF Secretariat as a member
of GCF’s Technical Advisory Panel. (Board politics did not approve 2, inc. me.) Currently under
contract supporting GCF Secretariat in designing the ~$1 Billion REDD+/Results Based payments
window – issue papers, analysis, etc.
OTHER CONSULTING: REDD+, program design, financing land use, LEDS.
 Global Co-Chair, LEDS (Low Emissions Development Strategies) Global Partnership’s AFOLU
Working Group. Strategic and technical guidance for capacity building program, 2015-2017.
 Winrock International. Finance options for land use guidance.
 Major Indonesian forest products company: Advised on meeting sustainability targets.
WINROCK INTERNATIONAL, ENVIRONMENT GROUP, ARLINGTON, VA US
SENIOR DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENT GROUP DECEMBER 2014 – DECEMBER 2016
 Senior Director of the Environment Group’s US and international staff (35 in US and 200
overseas) and programs totaling $32 million annually. Managed 3 units implementing: c. 10
$5-25 million multi-year natural resource management projects on the ground in c. 10
developing countries; innovative technical and methodological support to land use, climate
change and ecosystem services programs; and one of the few greenhouse registries globally--
American Carbon Registry. Led strategic and new business direction.
 Managed about a third of Winrock’s project portfolio: day-to-day responsibility for staff
management, hiring, performance review; budgeting; contract review and signing authority up
to $5m; resolution of major project or organizational performance issues.
 Personally provided technical assistance to projects in Vietnam, Bangladesh, China,
Cambodia, Guatemala, Liberia, Indonesia, Chile, and analytic projects.
 Certified, PMD Pro: Project Management for Development Professions, 2015.
 Managed New Business pursuits, proposals, and teams for $30m target for 2016. My Group
won $42m in proposals (40% over target). Co-led complex proposal process that won $65m
USAID global Sustainable Water Partnership on water security.
 China: Co-negotiated Winrock NGO registration in China, 2015-16, for $10m portfolio.
Awarded registration, 2015--one of only 4 US NGOs registered. Signed MOU with Yunnan
Academy of Forestry. Published technical paper in Chinese journal, 2016 (Mandarin & English).
 Personally negotiated 2 contracts with major Indonesian forest and ag commodity private
company, for advice and analysis of its sustainability commitments.
DIRECTOR, ECOSYSTEM SERVICESUNIT MARCH 2014 - MAY 2015
 Director of Winrock’s think tank, providing innovative technical and methodological support
to land use, climate change and ecosystem services programs and initiatives worldwide. ECO
builds large decision-support tools for USAID, World Bank/FCPF and others using global
forest/soils/crop/water/bioenergy datasets; MRV and carbon accounting methods; etc.
Promoted to Senior Director for Environment after 9 months.
WORLD BANK (IBRD), CARBON FINANCE UNIT, ENVIRONMENT DEPT. WASHINGTON, DC
SENIOR CARBON FINANCE &METHODOLOGY SPECIALIST, AND FCPF PROGRAM NOV. 2007- MARCH 2014

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 One of 5 World Bank staff who invented $1 Billion Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).
Global partnership to pilot REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
Degradation). Co-developed strategy, governance model, and program, 2007-14.
 Lead co-author & process manager of Methodological Framework for FCPF Carbon Fund. Lead
author and team leader of team developing new climate policy standard, & consensus builder
among donors and REDD countries. Conceived process; hired and managed 20 international
experts, managed 5 FCPF staff & $500k/yr. 2012-14.
 Led development of first country proposal to FCPF’s $400 million Carbon Fund, working with
Costa Rica Ministry of Environment senior officials on successful $63 million proposal to Carbon
Fund, 2012-13. Won Bank’s Vice Presidential Award for this cooperation, 2014.
 Managed budget, staffing & products for 2-3 contracts & 2-3 World Bank projects/yr, c. $600k.
 Made 10-15 formal presentations/yr to international & U.S. audiences, inc. UNFCCC plenary
(2,500 audience); chaired & presented at 4 Forest Day panels. 2007-11.
 Conceiver and lead author of global standard protocol for REDD+ country submissions to FCPF
and UN-REDD Programme (Readiness Preparation Proposal, R-PP). Convinced UN-REDD to adopt;
guided thru 6 versions. 40+ countries submitted 200-page R-PPs using template. 2009-11.
 Conceiver and manager of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) process for review of country
applications to FCPF. Hired and managed 150 international experts/yr. 2008-12.
 Advisory Committee, Forum for REDD Readiness. Strategic advice to developing country
capacity building network that won $5m from Norway. 2010-2013.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, OFFICE OF AIR AND RADIATION/OAP, CLIMATE
CHANGE DIVISION. WASHINGTON, DC
SENIOR SEQUESTRATION EXPERT NOV. 2003- NOV. 2007
Senior analyst for EPA on US and global climate change agricultural and forestry mitigation.
 Mission contract evaluation team for $30 million contract, for EPA, 3/07-7/07.
 EPA reviewer of U.S. voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) registry agriculture & forestry guidance
programs: DOE’s 1605b, California Registry, WRI Project Protocols.
 Bioenergy: developed Climate Change Div. strategy for biofuels. Managed contracts and staff
revising FASOM US model to assess bioenergy policy options. Co-manager India biofuels study.
 Manager, co-author and editor of major (150 pp., $1m) EPA study of US forest/agriculture
mitigation potential, economics, costs, regional distribution, leakage estimation, 2005.
 Co-author: U.N IPCC Chapter 9 Forestry of IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group III:
Nabuurs, G-J, and O. Masera, coor. lead authors; lead authors: K. Andrasko +13, 73 pp. , 2007.
 Co-author: Kindermann, Obersteiner, Sohngen, Sathaye, K. Andrasko + 4. Global cost
estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Proceedings of National
Academy of Sciences, July 29, vol. 105 no. 30: 10302–10307.
 Co-editor 12-paper special issue on carbon forestry project baselines and leakage (and co-
author of 5 papers), Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Kluwer Academic
 Lead funder and organizer, India-US Forestry Climate Mitigation Network-India (FORCLIMIT).
Wrote proposal winning $270k grant. 2003-05
 Manager & co-developer of new global forestry computer model of climate mitigation economic
potential, GCOMAP, with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab team, 2004-06.
 Lead organizer & 2nd
co-author, WRI report on Russian land use baseline & carbon mitigation,
51 pp. in Russian and English, by organizing 4 Russian & U.S. agencies to cooperate, 2005.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, OFFICE OF ATMOSPHERIC PROGRAMS, CLIMATE
POLICY & PROGRAM DIVISION. WASHINGTON, DC
SEQUESTRATION TEAM LEADER AUGUST 2000-NOVEMBER2003
 Team leader (3-5 staff) and lead analyst for EPA on US and global climate change agricultural
and forestry mitigation activities. Manager of $1 million analytic budget/yr.
 Member, US delegation to UN Climate Convention negotiations, 1999-2001, on forest &
agriculture & Joint Implementation issues. 1 of 5 in US govt. who developed a US proposal that
became enshrined as the Kyoto Protocol’s Article 3.4.

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U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, OFFICE OF POLICY, CLIMATE POLICY AND PROGRAMS
DIVISION. WASHINGTON, DC
SENIOR ANALYST JUNE 1998-AUGUST 2000
 Presented or co-wrote US govt. presentations on forestry, JI, and CDM at UNFCCC workshops.
 Conceptualized, negotiated with contractors to perform analytic studies: Managed work &
presented results to EPA and USG policymakers to quantify implications of Kyoto negotiations.
 Lead author of IPCC Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry Special Report (2 chapters), 2000.
Lead author on IPCC Technology Transfer Special Report, 2000.
U.S. INITIATIVE ON JOINT IMPLEMENTATION (USIJI), AND U.S. COUNTRY STUDIES PROGRAM.
WASHINGTON, DC (on detail to U.S. DOE from U.S. EPA)
SENIOR ANALYST &REGIONAL COORDINATOR 1994- 1998
 Acting co-director (2/95-11/95) and senior analyst (other periods 10/94-98) for US Initiative for
Joint Implementation (USIJI) Presidential interagency initiative (EPA, DOE, State, AID)
 Co-chair of 40-expert technical evaluation of 50 JI proposals for land use and energy projects,
1995-96. Senior analyst on land use issues; adviser on policy, technical assistance, financing.
 Russia: Co-conceiver and manager of 2 successful Joint Implementation projects in Russia
(RUSAFOR forest plantation near Kazakstan; and RUSAGAS natural gas pipelines).
 Leader, Former Soviet Union region team. Developed portfolio of 6 JI projects accepted in
Russia. Led USIJI and EPA cooperation with Russian government agencies.
 Delegate to Gore-Chernomyrdin Environment Commission: 5 US/Russian bilateral Climate
Change Policy Working Group (CPG) consultations chaired by State Dept. Moscow & US.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, OFFICE OF POLICY, PLANNING AND EVALUATION,
CLIMATE CHANGE DIVISION. WASHINGTON, DC
CHIEF, FOREST/AGRICULTURE SECTION 1989- 1994
Lead analyst for EPA on domestic U.S. and international forestry/ag climate change mitigation:
 Initial conceiver and 1 of 8 developers of $150 million/yr "Forests for the Future Initiative"
announced by President Bush at Rio Earth Summit 1992. Won EPA Gold Medal (highest honor).
 Personally conceived "America the Beautiful" program announced by President Bush in 1990.
Initial analyses, served on interagency team for U.S. tree planting initiative funded by Congress
for $150 million in FY1991-92. Co-conceived “Cool Communities” program in U.S. Climate
Action Plan announced by President Clinton, 1993 & funded 1994. Won 2 EPA Bronze Medals for
my work on these programs.
CONTRACTOR AT EPA FOR BRUCE CO., ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE; AND 3 NGOS,
WASHINGTON, DC, AND PUERTO RICO AND VIRGIN ISLANDS
NATURAL RESOURCE ANALYST 1985-89
 Bruce Co., ELI/USEPA: analyses of agric. policy, wetlands, remote sensing (1987-89).
 American Rivers: developed new quantitative analysis of river protection in U.S. (1986-87).
 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED): research on environmental
security (1986).
 Island Resources Foundation: St. Thomas USVI, remote sensing Puerto Rican coastal zone, US.
School for Field Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM DIRECTOR of $600,000/yr ecological field research program: developing countries, US. 1981-84
Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Appalachia conservation journal (260 pp./yr). On Board of Publications. 1980-85
Freelance writer and editor, Cambridge, MA
AUTHOR OR EDITOR of 3 published books that sold over 30,000 copies. 1975-81
 Wrote 6 National Public Radio 30-minute shows on indigenous peoples and environment.

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 Interviewed on National Public Radio; German, Japanese and Russian TV; by newspapers.
JOB-RELATED AWARDS
 Nobel Peace Prize co-share, 2007: awarded to selected contributors to IPCC Fourth Assessment
Report & to Al Gore. Presented an individualized plaque in Norwegian & English.
 World Bank Vice Presidential Unit Team Award, 2014: with Latin American team, for supporting
Costa Rica’s drafting of a $62m—and the first--proposal to the FCPF Carbon Fund for REDD+
payments for performance.
 EPA Gold Medal: “in recognition of the role played in negotiating an effective framework
convention on climate change for the 1992 Rio Earth Summit,” 1992.
 3 EPA Bronze medals: for Forests for the Future initiative: 1992; for President Clinton’s
Climate Change Action Plan: 1994; for Cooling Our Communities guidebook: 1995.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
K. Andrasko, in prep., 2017. Guidance on financing AFOLU activities for Low Emissions Development
Strategies. Winrock International for LEDS AFOLU Working Group and LEDS Global Partnership.
Casarim, F., McMurray, A., Andrasko, K., O’Sullivan, R. in press. The Relationship between LEDS
and REDD+: Case studies from Peru and Guatemala. Winrock International paper for LEDS
Global Partnership, 28 pp.
GCF Secretariat (Chang, J., Sanz, M., Andrasko, K.), 2016. Initial operationalization of results-
based finance for REDD+. Issue paper GCF/B.14/03 for Green Climate Fund, Board of Directors
meetings B.14, October 2016, Songdo, South Korea, 10 pp.
UNFAO (I. Animon + many co-authors, inc. K. Andrasko in 3 sections), 2016. Forestry for a low-
carbon future: Integrating forests and wood products in climate change strategies.
UN FAO Forestry Paper 177: MISC/90/7, 179 pp. (invited expert contributor).
O’Sullivan, R., and K. Andrasko, 2016. New Business Strategy for Environment Group for 2016.
Confidential Winrock International strategic document, 20 pp.
Andrasko, K. and Ma Jian-zhong, 2016. Innovative Ecosystem Services and Financial Approaches for
Nature Conservation in China. Journal of West China Forestry Science, vol. 45, no. 1, 13 pp., in
Mandarin and English.
Gibbon, A, Pearson, T, Walker, S, Andrasko, K. 2014. Integrated REDD+ accounting within a nested
approach. Guidance manual developed by Winrock International under the USAID LEAF
Program, 2015. On LEAF’s web site.
Gibbon, A, Andrasko, K, Pearson, T., Walker, S, 2014. Policy Tool, AFOLU Calculator. Guidance
manual developed by Winrock International for USAID carbon Calculator for reporting to US
Congress on its Sustainable Landscape projects globally. On USAID and Winrock web sites.
World Bank (Andrasko, K., M. Van der Linden, A. Lotsch, et al.) 2013. Methodological Framework,
FCPF Carbon Fund. World Bank, Carbon Finance Unit, for FCPF, 39 pp.
Niles, J., L. Gamble, K. Andrasko, A. Lotsch, 2014. Synthesis Report: WWF-FCPF Technical
Workshop on REDD+ Reference Levels. 24 pp. Report on international workshop.
Sathaye, Jayant, K. Andrasko and Peter Chan, 2011. Emissions scenarios, costs, and
implementation considerations of REDD-plus programs. Cambridge University Press:
Environment and Development Economics, 16, pp 361-380.
FCPF (K. Andrasko, lead author & project manager, et al), 2010. Harvesting Knowledge on REDD-
plus: Early Lessons from FCPF Initiative and Beyond. World Bank, 28 pp.
Kindermann, G., M. Obersteiner, B. Sohngen, J. Sathaye, K. Andrasko, +4 authors, 2008. Global
cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Proceedings of
National Academy of Sciences, July 29, vol. 105 no. 30: 10302–10307.
Pearson, Timothy, Sandra Brown, K. Andrasko, 2008. Comparison of registry methodologies for
reporting carbon benefits for afforestation projects in United States. Environ Science & Policy,
Vol 11: 6, p. 490–504
Sohngen, Brent, Robert Beach, K. Andrasko, 2008. Avoided Deforestation as a Greenhouse Gas
Mitigation Tool: Economic Issues. Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 37, no. 4.
Nabuurs, G, O. Masera, coor. authors; lead authors: K. Andrasko + 13, 2007. U.N. IPCC Chapter 9
Forestry , IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group III. Cambridge University Press.

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Sathaye, J., Andrasko. K, guest eds, 2007. Special Issue: Estimation of Baselines and Leakage in
Carbon Mitigation Forestry Projects, 12 papers (co-author of 5 papers). Mitigation and
Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.
Sathaye, J., Makundi, W., Dale, L., Peter Chan, Andrasko, K, 2006. Estimating Global Forestry GHG
Mitigation Potential and Costs: A Dynamic Partial Equilibrium Approach. Energy Journal: 127-
62.
Brown, S., Hall, M., Andrasko, K. + 7, 2007. Baselines for Land Use Change in the Tropics:
Application to Avoided Deforestation Projects. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global
Change v12:6:1001-1026.
Andrasko, K. and B. DeAngelo, eds (and B. Murray, B. Sohngen, A. Sommer, B. Depro, K. Jones, B.
McCarl, D. Gillig, K. Andrasko, and B. DeAngelo, authors), 2005. Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Potential in U.S. Forestry and Agriculture. USEPA report 430-R-05-006, Washington, DC, 150
pp.
Sohngen, B., K. Andrasko, M. Gytarsky, G. Korovin + 4, 2005. Stocks and Flows: Carbon Inventory
and Mitigation Potential for the Russian Forest and Land Base. World Resources Institute,
Wash., DC, 51 pp.
West, T., Marland, G., King, A., Post, W., Jain, A., Andrasko, K, 2004. Carbon Management
Response Curves: Estimates of Temporal Soil Carbon Dynamics. Springer-Verlag, Environ
Managemt 33:4 507-518.
Watson, Nobel, I., Bolin, B., Ravindranath, N.H., Verardo, D., Andrasko, K. + 29 authors, 2000.
Summary for Policy Makers. In: Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, Oxford Univ. Press, UK.
Brown, S., Masera, O., Sathaye, J, Andrasko, K. + 10 authors, 2000. Chapter 5, Project-Based
Activities. In: Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry, UNFCCC IPCC, Oxford Univ. Press, UK.
Andrasko, K., D. Ahuja, S. Winnett, D. Tirpak. 1991. Policy options for managing biomass burning to
mitigate global climate change. Book chapter in: Global Biomass Burning: Atmospheric,
Climatic, and Biospheric Implications. J. Levine, ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Andrasko, K. 1990. Climate change and global forests: Current knowledge of potential effects,
adaptation, and mitigation options. UN FAO FO:MISC/90/7, 76pp.
Andrasko, K. 1990. "Forestry" chapter, in: Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate. USEPA,
Climate Change Div., first EPA climate change Report to Congress, Washington, 50 pp.