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Edison (Ted) Buchanan, Santa Fe, NM
Ted is corporate advisor for the Trust for Public Land. Before joining TPL, he served as managing director and head of real estate investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to that, he spent 20 years as managing director in Morgan Stanley's real estate investment banking group and as managing director and co-head of Dean Witter's real estate investment banking group. Ted serves on the boards of directors of Pioneer Natural Resources Company and Rio Grande School. He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Tulane University and M.B.A. from Columbia University.

D. Ernest Cook, Boston, MA
Ernest is a senior vice president and national programs director for the Trust for Public Land. He oversees the development of several national programs for TPL, including its Conservation Finance program. Since 1994, this program has aided in the passage of legislation and ballot measures providing more than $30 billion in park and open space capital funding. He is co-author of the forthcoming Conservation Finance Handbook and has contributed to an extensive array of research reports published by TPL, including "The Economic Benefits of Parks and Open Space." Ernest holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a master's degree in planning and public finance from New York University. Prior to his role at a national level for the Trust for Public Land, he served as regional director of its Midwest and New England regions.

Ted O. Harrison, Santa Fe, NM
Ted is the president of Commonweal Conservancy. Prior to founding Commonweal Conservancy, he served as a senior vice president for the Trust for Public Land. Since 1986, Ted has helped facilitate more than $150 million worth of open space and community-building real estate transactions. These projects range from large-scale urban open space and watershed protection projects to historic preservation and wild lands conservation throughout the Southwest and California. Ted holds a bachelor's degree in political science and anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, a master's degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an advanced management development program degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

 
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