Akiva Fishman leads the WWF-US Forest team’s efforts to connect the private sector with high-quality nature-based solutions (NbS). NbS are actions that use nature to generate positive societal impacts. WWF considers NbS to be high-quality when they are designed with equal attention to positively impacting people, nature, and climate; embedded within landscape-level strategies to effect change at a transformational scale; responsive to needs determined by local stakeholders; and codeveloped with local stakeholders using indicators that are clear, transparent, and quantifiable. 

Akiva serves as a bridge between WWF’s corporate partners and the place-based work WWF is advancing in priority conservation landscapes. He manages individual corporate partnerships and furthers WWF’s thought leadership on the role and mechanisms for private sector actors to engage in landscape initiatives. Akiva’s work builds on over a decade of experience in responsible commodities production and trade, deforestation- and conversion-free supply chain implementation, and landscape initiative design. 

Akiva holds a B.A. in international and global studies from Brandeis University; a Master of Forestry from Yale University; and a J.D. from New York University, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar.