Kristine Tompkins

Tompkins Conservation

Kristine Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and former CEO of Patagonia, Inc. For three decades, she has committed to protecting and restoring wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring wildlife, inspiring activism, and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation. As part of this work, she has helped protect and restore vast grasslands in Argentina and Chile.

Kristine and her late husband Douglas Tompkins have protected 14.8 million acres of parklands in Chile and Argentina through Tompkins Conservation and its partners, making them among the most successful national park-oriented philanthropists in history.

Through Tompkins Conservation and its offspring organizations, Rewilding Argentina and Rewilding Chile, she has helped to create or expand 15 national parks in Argentina and Chile, and works to bring back species locally or nationally extinct, such as the jaguar, red-and-green macaw, giant river otter, Darwin’s rhea and endangered huemul deer.