Katherine Hamilton

Instructor, Center for Wildlife Studies

Consultant and Educator, Kate Hamilton LLC, San Francisco, CA

Master of Environmental Management, Yale University

BA in International Relations, University of Michigan

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/kateehamilton

Katherine Hamilton is a consultant and educator, specializing in impact investing, social entrepreneurship and climate finance. She has advised foundations, nonprofits, government and business. She has served as an instructor at the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business and currently teaches a course on Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University. 

Katherine previously served as Director of Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, a non-profit news, data, and analytics service focused on incentives for conservation. At Ecosystem Marketplace, she created the State of the Voluntary Carbon Market series and co-authored the book Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Business Guide. 

Katherine’s consultancy includes an emphasis on capacity building and leading trainings around the world, She recently developed a series of Climate Finance Workshops for professionals in Mexico as a Fulbright Specialist. As a Colorado State Center for Collaborative Fellow her research focused on designing place based education for environmental policymakers.

  • CONSERVATION FINANCE

  • Bayon, R. Hawn, A. and Hamilton, K. 2009. Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work. Second Edition. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan Publishing.


    Aalders, E. and Hamilton, K. 2009. Lessons from the Voluntary Forest Carbon Markets: Applications to Emerging Compliance Markets. Carbon Finance II: Investing in Forest for Climate Protection. Yale F&ES Publication Series.


    Hamilton, K., Bayon, R., and Hawn, A. 2008. Carving a Niche for Forests in the Voluntary Carbon Markets. Streck et al. (Editors). Forestry, Climate Change, and the Carbon Market. Brookings Institution Press.

    Bayon, R., Hawn, A., and Hamilton, K. 2007. The Growing Voluntary Market for Carbon: Emerging Strategies. Cut Carbon, Growth Profits- Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability. London: Middlesex University Press