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Dr. Quint Newcomer is Director of UGA Costa Rica, adjunct faculty in the UGA Odum School of Ecology, and a core faculty member in UGA’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.
Quint came to the University of Georgia in 2005 from the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where he earned a Master of Environmental Management and his doctorate in Social Ecology, studying market incentive mechanisms for private forestland conservation in Costa Rica. Quint co-edited and co-authored chapters in the book, Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Panama Canal Watershed. Prior to attending Yale, Quint lived and worked for most of the 1990′s in Costa Rica. His positions included certification manager and business development consultant for a plantation forestry and wood products company, executive director of the Monteverde Institute, and country coordinator for the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. Quint earned a Master of International Management degree at The Thunderbird School of Global Management and received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Missouri in Columbia.