Nathan Truitt

As Executive Vice President of Climate Funding, Nathan Truitt leads the American Forest Foundation’s strategy for funding and financing all of AFF’s programs, with a strong emphasis currently on the rapidly expanding Family Forest Carbon Program. He was one of a small group of staff from AFF and The Nature Conservancy who conceived of and built the Family Forest Carbon Program to help provide family and individual forest landowners with access to carbon markets. Since helping to launch FFCP, he has increasingly worked to improve the frameworks for voluntary corporate action, serving in formal and informal advisory roles with Verra’s Scope 3 program, the Land Sector Removal Guidance of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and the Integrity Council of the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM).

Nathan began his career in the nonprofit world working in international education and development — first as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan and later as a program, country, and regional director in Uzbekistan, Serbia, and Kosovo. He earned his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California and a master’s degree in philanthropy and development from Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota.