Evan Freund

Evan Freund is a senior director for sustainable infrastructure and finance on the WWF-US Forest team. In this role, he manages programming around infrastructure design, finance, and development, including the five-year Greening Transportation Infrastructure Development (GRID) Integrated Program. Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), GRID focuses on incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem-related considerations into transportation infrastructure planning. 

Prior to joining WWF, Evan managed the Government and Public Sector Practice for CiBO Technologies, a venture-backed agricultural technology startup. From 2005 to 2017, Evan worked for the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a bilateral foreign aid agency, beginning his career there as a technical specialist in the Infrastructure practice. This involved designing and overseeing investments in water supply, sanitation, transportation, and energy systems in Ghana, Namibia, Honduras, and Lesotho. From 2008 to 2014, he served as MCC’s deputy resident country director in Maputo, Mozambique, where he helped manage MCC’s five-year program focused on improving economic opportunity through targeted investments in water supply and sanitation infrastructure, transport infrastructure, agriculture, and land tenure. Upon his return to Washington, DC, in 2014, he served as a director and country team lead, overseeing the MCC’s programs in Liberia (2014–2016) and the Philippines (2016–2017).  

Evan holds a master’s degree in city planning (MCP) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his BA from Middlebury College.   

Education

• Master's Degree in city planning (MCP), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)
• B.A. Middlebury College (1999) 

Areas of Expertise

• Infrastructure Finance
• Water resource management and policy
• Economic Development