Brian Shillinglaw

Brian Shillinglaw is a joint Law and IPER student interested in developing innovative approaches to conservation finance and natural resource ownership to facilitate land conservation, the emergence of ecosystem service markets, and rural development.

Prior to law school Brian worked for a number of organizations in the non-profit sector on agricultural development. He also put in a stint as a field assistant on a study of frog and lizard biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in Costa Rica. More recently, Brian co-organized an executive workshop on financing community ownership and management of natural resource assets in April 2007. He interned at American Farmland Trust (Farm Bill) and at Beartooth Capital Partners (conservation development) during law school.

Brian was raised in western New York, and he did his undergraduate work at Harvard and spent a year as a History PhD student at Yale before heading west to Stanford.