David Strelneck supports entrepreneurship at the overlap of environment, agriculture, food, and human health. He has focused for 14 years with business and social enterprises on actions that stimulate financial, biological, and cultural value by connecting health of people and land. He has chaired the “nutrition gap” plenary at the Borlaug Dialogue and World Food Prize conference, and he led economic analyses for a national 3-year USDA Conservation Innovation Grant on incentivizing conservation adoption through farming practices that affect food quality. His work is often referred to as “nourishment-cycle economics” or the “circular economy of nutrients.”
More broadly, David has 30 years experience in 26 countries from the USA to Belgium to Zambia, leading environmental innovations initiatives with The World Bank, ICF International, the United Nations Development Program, Ashoka, The Nature Conservancy, and others. He holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University in political science, public policy and environmental economics.
