The Salazar Center is proud to announce that Shaun O’Rourke will be joining us in Denver, Colorado for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
Shaun is a Director on the Water Climate and Finance Team at Quantified Ventures (QV) focused on accelerating nature-based solution projects through innovative funding and financing approaches. He has more than 15 years of climate leadership in the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors. Prior to joining QV, he was the Managing Director at Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank and was appointed by Governor Raimondo as the state’s first Chief Resilience Officer. In this role, he led the development and implementation of the climate resilience action strategy, Resilient Rhody. The strategy resulted in over $45 million in new, dedicated funding for climate resilience projects during the first four years. Shaun worked closely with Rhode Island’s congressional delegation and state legislature to advocate for priority projects and direct federal funds for clean energy and climate resilience projects.
Additionally, Shaun has served as the National Green Infrastructure Director at The Trust for Public Land and Director of Sustainable Design and faculty member at the Boston Architectural College.
He is passionate about working with municipalities, counties, and states to accelerate implementation of nature-based solutions to solve multiple problems at once. He and his family live in Northern Vermont and in his free time, Shaun can be found playing in the mountains.
The Water and Climate Finance team at QV partners with communities and organizations from all sectors to deliver clean water, climate mitigation, and community resilience solutions to improve the wellbeing of people and planet. They work with their clients to identify and secure capital to catalyze and scale environmental infrastructure and nature-based solution projects.