Jason Cole
Senior Program Officer
Jason Cole is a senior program officer with the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Jason worked for five years with Conservation International's Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund serving as the monitoring and evaluation director and then as the South America grant director. Nearly three of his five years at CI, Jason was based in Brazil where he managed grant portfolios for the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil, in addition to portfolios covering the Andean countries of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Before this he co-founded DevWorks International, a consulting firm specializing in project design and monitoring and evaluation, where he worked mainly on World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank projects in Africa and Latin America. Jason began his international development work by managing emergency relief projects in Angola under several of the UN peace processes through the mid-90s.
Jason received a B.A. in Economics from Earlham College and spent a year at the London School of Economics. He also earned a M.A. in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.