Will McDow

Senior Director, Climate Resilient Watersheds , Environmental Defense Fund

Will McDow is a senior director for EDF’s Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds strategic initiative. In this work, Will engages communities, farmers, businesses, academics and public agencies to develop shared and equitable solutions to increase climate resilience.

Will has broad expertise on environmental market design, mitigation policy and working lands conservation. He serves on the board of the Ecological Restoration Business Association.

Since joining EDF in 2003, he has focused on market-based incentives to expand environmental benefits on America’s working lands, including prior work on state tax policy, farm bill program design, bioenergy markets and habitat exchanges.