Director of Sustainability and Business Administration
Quint loves to help kids plant vegetable gardens at his son’s elementary school, to play ultimate frisbee (he has competed in Masters, Grand Masters, and Great Grand Masters Division at US nationals!) and more recently disc golf, to watch birds, to cruise hills on his longboard skateboard, to hike in the mountains, to build sand castles on the beach (the “Gentle Architect,” Malcom Wells, is his sand castle hero), and he especially loves sharing an appreciation of architecture with his wife, Lori.
Quint brings nearly three decades of executive administration to Arcollab. From 2005-2016, he was director of the University of Georgia’s campus and programs in Costa Rica. Among many accomplishments, Quint spearheaded UGA Costa Rica’s carbon offset reforestation program; created and supervised an annual sustainability internship program and Sustainability Report; and worked with faculty from across UGA to develop and carry out a 10-year strategic plan for the campus. Quint worked closely with UGA College of Environment and Design faculty to implement the campus’ master plan which included a 90-acre forest reserve, an integrated organic farming operation, the San Luis Botanical Garden, renewable energy generation infrastructure, and anaerobic digestion systems for wastewater treatment and natural gas production. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources at UGA, research affiliate with the UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research, and a board member of the Broad River Watershed Association.
Quint came to the University of Georgia in 2005 from Yale University (PhD and Master of Environmental Management) where he studied, taught, and carried out research on incentive mechanisms for private forestland conservation, payment for environmental services, and establishment of biological corridors in Costa Rica. He co-edited the book, Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Panama Canal Watershed, in which he also co-authored several chapters, and co-authored the chapter The Monteverde Cloud Forest: Evolution of a Biodiversity Island in Costa Rica for the forthcoming book, Biodiversity Islands. Prior to attending Yale, Quint lived and worked for most of the 1990s in Costa Rica. His positions included certification manager and business development consultant for a plantation timber and wood products company, principal at Consultoría para Organizaciones Sostenibles, S.A., executive director of Instituto Monteverde, and country coordinator for the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. Quint also attended the Thunderbird School of Global Management where he received a Master of International Management degree.
The Monteverde Cloud Forest: Evolution of a Biodiversity Island in Costa Rica
