Megan Epler Wood is the founder of the International Ecotourism Society, a nonprofit dedicated to the development of sustainable tourism worldwide. She was its president and CEO from 1991-2002.
Her firm, EplerWood International, helps some of the poorest countries in the world—including Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka—develop sustainable tourism.
Epler Wood is a senior fellow at the Institute at the Golden Gate, a program of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, where she guides efforts to finance and market a series of sustainable technologies to help fuel tourism in coastal areas and island states affected by climate change. She also has plans to launch a new consulting group in concert with Gap Adventures, a global travel company.