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John W. Haines joined
Mercy Corps Northwest
in December 2002 as executive director. From
1997-2002, he was vice president of ShoreBank Pacific, a start-up
sustainable development bank in Portland, Oregon. From 1996-97 he was senior
finance advisor to the Czech National Environmental Fund in Prague, working
for Chemonics International, Inc. under assistance provided by USAID to
improve environmental health conditions in the Czech transition to a market
economy. From 1994-95 he was executive director of Trenton Business
Assistance Corporation, an economic development loan fund in Trenton, NJ.
From 1986-1991 he worked in various corporate banking and commercial lending
positions with First Interstate Bank of Oregon (now Wells Fargo Bank). He
is a board member of Mercy Corps Northwest, Willamette Riverkeeper, Our
United Villages/The Rebuilding Center, The Food Alliance, Open Meadow
Alternative Schools and Portland + Oregon Sustainability Institute. In
1991-92 he made a continuous decent of the Niger River in West Africa. His
dog, a wild red-haired mutt found at a pinot noir vineyard, named Mungo
after the Scottish explorer of the Niger River in 1795, Mungo Park. He is a
graduate of the University of Wyoming and native of Laramie, Wyoming.
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