Bryan Garcia is the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, the nation’s first state-level green bank. Before joining the Green Bank, he was Program Director for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. He has co-edited two publications: Carbon Finance: Environmental Market Solutions to Climate Change and Carbon Finance II: Investing in Forests for Climate Protection.

Bryan previously served as Connecticut’s Climate Change Coordinator, and was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer specializing in NGO capacity-building and environmental education in the Republic of Kazakhstan.