The Forests Dialogue with Gary Dunning: A Yale program designed to reduce conflict in the forest sector

Gary Dunning: https://environment.yale.edu/directory/staff/gary-dunning

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Gary is the Executive Director of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment.  His primary responsibilities center on strategic planning, institutional collaborations, communications, and programming. Gary also lectures at the School on stakeholder engagement, leadership in the forest sector and timely issues in forestry. 

He is the founding Executive Director of The Forests Dialogue (TFD). TFD was created in 2000 to provide global forest leaders with a neutral, multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) platform and process focused on developing mutual trust and a shared understanding while working towards collaborative solutions to the challenges in achieving sustainable forest management and forest conservation around the world.  Gary previously served as the Director of the Yale Forest Forum from 1998-2000.  He holds an MF degree from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in Geography & Natural Resources from Humboldt State University.

Some personal information about Gary:

• I grew up in “Chicagoland”, no forests in sight, true rust belt, unnatural environment
• I lived in Northern California, fell in love with forests, vowed to protect them (read, keep people out!)
• I moved to Kenya to teach Agroforestry (Peace Corps), learned firsthand that you can’t protect forests without PEOPLE
• I realized that The Forests Dialogue was my best opportunity to care for forests via engaging people directly in their care