Austin Dziki is a Lecturer in Forest & Ecosystem Finance at the Yale School of the Environment and an Associate Director of Environmental Infrastructure Programs at the Connecticut Green Bank, where he leads loan origination, underwriting, approval, and closing for investments that generate private financing for nature-based solutions, climate resilience, and other environmental infrastructure across Connecticut.
Before joining the Green Bank, Austin was a Senior Manager of Investments at New Forests, where he led climate-smart timberland investments across North America through origination, valuation, negotiation, transaction structuring, and closing. His work centered on optimizing sustainable timber production and carbon sequestration in valuation models and building investment and impact strategies across new regions. His earlier career focused on conservation ecology and research, working in tropical developing countries and with private landowners in the US.
Education
BS, Biological Sciences, University of Vermont (2015); MF, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University (2020).