Jane Rice

Overview

Jane designs, implements and evaluates innovative market-based approaches for natural resource management. Jane’s experience in environmental markets spans habitat exchanges, species and wetland banking, carbon offsets, water quality trading and payment for ecosystem service programs. Jane has worked with a variety of clients across public, private and non-profit sectors. Jane earned her master’s degree in environmental economics and policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

As a member of WRA’s conservation finance department, Jane strives to advance conservation investment opportunities that generate measurable environmental outcomes and competitive financial returns. Jane helps landowners unlock the natural resource value of their properties through environmental markets. Specifically, Jane conducts feasibility analyses for species conservation, wetland mitigation, and forest carbon banks and advises clients through conservation investment decision-making.