Phil Saksa
Co-Founder & Chief Program Officer,
Blue Forest
Blue Forest brings science, finance, and people together to restore and protect our forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. With a research background in wildfire risk and water supply resilience, Phil co-founded Blue Forest to transform scientific findings on natural infrastructure resilience into applied tools that drive substantial, long-term financial investments in landscape-scale restoration. Phil leads Blue Forest’s programmatic work to support innovative partnerships between government agencies, land managers, utilities, corporations, and other entities to address critical environmental challenges including catastrophic wildfire and flood risk.