Dr. John Marsh, Executive Director and Board Member As co-founder and Executive Director of Prosperity Initiative, John is a Board Member and heads the Executive Team. His experience includes more than 20 years spanning the public, private and, more recently, the development sectors. John came to Viet Nam in 2005 as Oxfam Hong Kong's Country Representative for Lao PDR and Viet Nam. In that role, he partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop and lead the Oxfam-IFC bamboo collaboration that would eventually become Prosperity Initiative's Mekong Bamboo programme.

John has worked in 16 countries as an independent consultant, Country Director for NGOs, agricultural/environmental engineer and market specialist. John holds a PhD in Natural Resource Planning as well as M.S. degrees in Development Economics and Environmental Management and a B.A. in Engineering.