Andre Heinz, is the stepson of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and a son of Teresa Heinz Kerry and the late U.S. Sen. John Heinz III, who was a Republican from Pennsylvania when he died in a plane crash in 1991.

Andre Heinz is an environmental consultant who has been living in Sweden, Andre graduated with a master’s degree in environmental studies from the Yale University School of Forestry. He works for The Natural Step, which advises bodies such as the European Union, the United Nations and corporations. Andre is active in a broad array of environmental and sustainability issues. He is the Director of International Affairs for The Natural Step, based in Stockholm. www.naturalstep.org Prior to that, he worked as a research assistant for noted author and businessman Paul Hawken (Growing a Business and The Ecology of Commerce), on his most recent work, Natural Capitalism, co-authored by Amory and Hunter Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute.

Previously, Andre worked on economic development issues as a research assistant at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development. During this period, he also actively participated in the development of a formalized environmental grant-making program for the Heinz Endowments. A 1992 graduate of Georgetown University, where he majored in English, Andre became familiar with the principles of green design and sustainable community building while working as a special projects assistant for the architect and environmental designer William McDonough, who is now also Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.

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