Jan Hartke helped to launch the internationalization of the environmental movement in the early 1980s, drafting and working to pass the National Governors Association's Global Environmental Policy, the first governmental recognition of the full spectrum of transboundary environmental issues.

He serves as President of the Earth Council Alliance, first formed in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. True to its original purpose, the Earth Council Alliance seeks to infuse strength and dimension to the sustainable development agenda that was formulated and endorsed by the largest gathering of Heads of State at that point in history.

He joined the Clinton Climate Initiative in 2006, specializing in energy efficiency, clean energy, and agroforestry issues as they affect climate change and poverty reduction. Mr. Hartke led delegations for the Clinton Climate Initiative to Tokyo, Istanbul, Berlin, Dhaka, Cairo, Paris, Rome, Bogota, Melbourne, Seoul, London, Mexico City in addition to several major US cities as part of the C40 program to help the largest cities in the world move towards greater levels of energy efficiency and larger commitments to renewable energy.

His work with the Clinton Climate Initiative established the Carbon Poverty Reduction Program which deals with forest and land use opportunities to sequester carbon and reduce the threat of climate change, establishing projects in cooperation with the National Governments of Guyana, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, and Tanzania and creating a Measurement, Monitoring, and Reporting team with expertise in remote sensing and satellite technologies to verify climate improvements.

Jan Hartke currently serves on President Obama's Enterprise for the America's Board of Directors, which administers the Tropical Forest Conservation Act. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Council for Science and Environment, which seeks to improve the scientific basis for environmental decision- making.

He has also served as an Advisory Board Member of the US Institute of Peace, worked for over a decade with the Greenbelt Movement led by Nobel Peace Recipient, Dr. Wangari Maathai, and aided President Nelson Mandela by raising funds and developing programs to familiarize young people with the conservation ethic and their natural heritage.

With his experience in working with governmental leaders, civil society organizations, and indigenous peoples in over one hundred countries, Hartke has worked at the nexus between projects in the developing world and bilateral and multilateral funding institutions, development banks, foundations, and the private sector.

In his early career, Hartke was elected State Treasurer of New Mexico and served as the National Vice President of the State Treasurers' Association. He was appointed by Governor Apodoca as Chief Public Defender for the State of New Mexico. He was appointed by Governor Anaya as Director, with Cabinet rank, of the Governor's Washington DC Office. He earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence at the University of Virginia Law School and received his degree in international relations at Brown University.