Oluseyi Fayanju

Work

Seyi Fayanju works with the Coastal Louisiana Program out of the New York office. He has drafted policy briefs on Louisiana’s importance to the national economy and wetland regeneration projects in the Mississippi River Delta. He is writing a report that will draw attention to linkages between sustainable ecosystem management and sustainable economic growth in southern Louisiana. In addition, he is one of the main contributors to Restoration and Resilience, an EDF blog examining green jobs in Louisiana’s coastal zone.

Background

• M.A., Columbia University
• A.M., Harvard University
• A.B., Harvard University

Before joining the Environmental Defense Fund, Seyi worked in the financial sector. While a graduate student at Columbia University, he investigated historical land use patterns in the Sahel as a research assistant at the International Research Institute on Climate and Society (IRI).