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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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