Tia Nelson
Executive Secretary
Board of Commissioners of Public Lands
Tia Nelson was named Executive Secretary of the Board of
Commissioners of Public Lands in October 2004. She oversees
the management of approximately 78,000 acres of Trust Lands
located in northern Wisconsin, the State Trust Fund Loan
Program, four Trust Funds valued at over $656 million, and
the Original Land Records Program, which includes land
survey records dating back to the 1830’s. Since her
appointment, she has overseen record Trust Fund earnings
totaling $81.7 million to Wisconsin’s public school
libraries and a $262.7 million increase in the State Trust
Fund Loan Program.
Ms. Nelson was previously with The Nature Conservancy for
seventeen years, first in Government Relations and then as
Senior Policy Advisor for the Latin America Region.
Beginning in 1994 she led The Nature Conservancy’s climate
change program. She played a key leadership role in climate
change and in developing forest protection and restoration
as a climate change mitigation strategy. Ms. Nelson has
developed and negotiated climate mitigation projects with
industry, environmentalists and numerous governments around
the world, including the United States, Belize, Bolivia and
Brazil. She has conducted forest carbon workshops around the
world and has been a frequent expert speaker on the topic of
forest carbon offset trading.
Ms. Nelson served as an advisor to several councils
including the World Bank’s Bio Carbon Fund, the Chicago
Climate Exchange, and the Climate Neutral Network. She was
recently appointed to the Northland College Board and also
serves on the Board of Visitors for the Nelson Institute of
Environmental Studies, and the Friends of the Apostle
Islands.
In 2000, Ms. Nelson was the recipient of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leadership Award.
Ms. Nelson’s professional life has come full circle with
her return to Wisconsin where she received her Bachelor of
Science degree in Wildlife Ecology from the University of
Wisconsin.
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