Andrew Hutson
Vice President, Climate-Smart Agriculture
Work
Areas of expertise:
Environmental policy, agriculture, conservation, supply chains, strategy, management, stakeholder engagement
Description
Andrew Hutson leads EDF’s Climate-Smart Agriculture team, which works across the U.S., India, EU and China to ensure abundant and affordable food supplies, prosperous rural economies, and clean air and water. He focuses on expanding financial incentives, technical assistance and innovation investments so that farmers and ranchers have the support they need to continue growing food in the face of more extreme weather, while also reducing agriculture’s climate impacts.
Background
Andrew returned to EDF in 2022 after five years at the National Audubon Society where he was Vice President and Executive Director of Audubon, North Carolina. During his first 11 years at EDF, he held a variety of roles, including leading two dozen economists, scientists, and capacity building staff at the Fishery Solutions Center of the Oceans Program and opening EDF’s office in Bentonville, Arkansas, to guide Walmart’s fledgling sustainability program. He has provided guidance to the Environmental Protection Agency on sustainability tools and metrics through the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
Education
PhD, Public Policy – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MEM, Resource Economics & Policy – Duke University
BA, International Relations – Michigan State University
Publications
Jonathan L. Johnson, Kevin J. Dooley, David G. Hyatt & Andrew M. Hutson. 2018. “Cross-sector relations in global supply chains: A social capital perspective,” Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol 54: 2.
Hutson, Andrew M. 2015. “Business Must Take a Leadership Role.” The Environmental Forum: The Policy Journal of the Environmental Law Institute. Vol. 32: 1.
National Research Council. 2014. “Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making: Tools and Approaches for the US Environmental Protection Agency.” Washington DC: National Academies Press.
Andrews, Richard N., Andrew M. Hutson, and Daniel Edwards Jr. 2005. “Environmental Management Under Pressure: How do Mandates Affect Performance?” In Colianese, Cary and Jennifer Nash (eds.). Leveraging the Private Sector: Management Strategies for Environmental Performance. Washington DC: Resources for the Future Press.