Rand Wentworth teaches environmental politics, leadership and negotiation at the Kennedy School and received the Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021. He is president emeritus of the Land Trust Alliance, a DC based national conservation organization that leads over 1000 land trusts with 8,000 staff, 16,000 board members and 4.6 million members. He is widely recognized for expanding the pace and quality of land conservation in America.
Rand has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions and built a bi-partisan coalition that convinced Congress to pass environmental legislation. He created three NGOs including the Atlanta office of the Trust for Public Land where he tripled the size of the national park honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and protected a 70-mile national park along the Chattahoochee River.
Prior to his career in conservation, he was president of a commercial real estate development company. He is graduate of Yale University and holds an MBA in finance from Cornell University.