Dave Chaffin, Ph.D

Dave Chaffin, Ph.D., is a Senior Sustainability Advisor for Pure Strategies. He works with corporate clients to integrate nature and biodiversity into their sustainability strategies across direct company operations, value chains and responsible sourcing, and corporate climate commitments. Dave has extensive experience identifying, assessing and mitigating environmental and social risks in nature-based supply chains and is well versed in the rapidly expanding landscape of forest and nature related standards, targets and regulations including EUDR, TNFD, SBTN, Scope 3 FLAG and nature-based climate solutions. He focuses on strategic planning, value chain risk assessment, and corporate GHG accounting to help companies assess, disclose, and mitigate their forest and nature related impacts in a science-based way.

Prior to joining Pure Strategies, Dave led Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s global forest sustainability program. In that role, he worked to drive the responsible sourcing of forest-derived materials used in the manufacture of Kimberly-Clark products and packaging accounting for carbon and climate, biodiversity, and Indigenous rights related variables.