Institute on World Affairs - Cultivating Democracy - A Democratic Approach to Saving the Environment.

David Hulse is the Conservation and Sustainable Development Program Officer with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where he is responsible for coordinating grantmaking in Asia and the Pacific. Before joining the Foundation, David worked with World Wildlife Federation International as the South Pacific Regional Representative, managing community-based marine and forest conservation projects in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Cook Islands. He has degrees in Earth Science and Environmental Studies from Iowa State University and in Public Policy from Harvard University. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. They are best known for their "genius" grants.