Raymond Chavez

Executive, Resilient Energi

Raymond Chavez is a Senior Program Development Specialist with over 25 years of experience with project design, strategic planning, public-private partnerships, fundraising, and communications. His expertise includes international sustainable development programs integrating biodiversity conservation, climate change, sustainable agriculture, marine resource conservation, and ecotourism.

Chavez works extensively with sustainable development program funding organizations that include private foundations, the U.S. government, multilateral banks, bilateral donor agencies, and private corporations. Chavez has extensive experience with multimedia communications for live events, cause-related marketing, and public relations for large-scale international conservation and sustainable development programs. This includes his work as an award-winning writer, director, and producer of documentary films for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, and public-awareness programs for television, Internet, radio, and print.

Chavez has a Master's Degree from Harvard University in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and studied filmmaking at the New York University Graduate School of Film.