Kristin Rechberger is founder and CEO of Dynamic Planet, helping advance markets to restore nature. Dynamic Planet works with communities, governments, and businesses around the world to protect, restore and manage their seascapes and landscapes holistically. Using a combination of policy reform, new business models, blended finance, strategic communications, and best practices with partners, Dynamic Planet’s work helps shift from extraction to conservation economies. Guided by the global target of protecting at least 30% of each land and sea by 2030, much of Dynamic Planet’s work will continue to focus on ocean protection and replenishment, and coastal restoration.
Kristin started her career as a Luce Scholar in Asia, then held several entrepreneurial leadership roles at National Geographic where she became Senior Vice President of Global Programs and Partnerships. Kristin was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and remains actively involved in its programs. She is a trustee of Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund and also serves on the boards of National Geographic Pristine Seas, Mongabay, The Environmental Investigation Agency, The Environmental Film Festival, Ocean Exploration Trust, and Friends of Anacostia Park at her home base in Washington DC.