Edward G. Sanders
Ed Sanders is President of Eco Tourism International, a consulting firm that prepares market assessments, feasibility studies and business plans for ecotourism and related sustainable development projects.He is a former Vice-Chairman of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) and author of (TIES, 2001) and the (World Tourism Organization, 2002).He is a founding partner, did the business planning and recruited investors for a 13,000 acre conservation and ecotourism project in Belize.Following an early career as a senior U.S. Government Official,he co-founded two international business consulting firms before shifting his focus to ecotourism ten years ago.He has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.