Seth Olson

Seth is a Senior Sustainability Manager at DT Global, where he focuses on creating and implementing sustainable and resilient value chain strategies in the food and fiber systems. With a decade of experience, he’s worked on contextualized assessments and built collaborative solutions to tackle global environmental and social challenges for multinational companies, global donors, and leading NGOs across five continents. Seth earned his MSc in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and his BSc in Natural Resource Management from the University of Delaware.

Seth calls Vermont home, where he lives with his partner and two cats. You’ll likely find him on the disc golf course, skiing down a mountain, or overanalyzing the latest Star Wars content when not working.

What’s your favorite place of all the places you’ve travelled?

• I spent a month seakayaing and backpacking above the Arctic Circle during the season of the midnight sun in Norway

If you could meet any living person for a chat over a shared dinner, who would you pick and why?

• Sir David Attenborough, he is the voice of natural wonderment and his documentary series played a foundational role in developing my passion for sustainability.