John Haines joined Mercy Corps Northwest in Dec 2002 as executive director. From 1997-2002, he was vice president of ShoreBank Pacific, a start-up sustainable development bank in Portland, Oregon.

From 1996-97, he was senior finance advisor to the Czech National Environmental Fund in Prague, working for Chemonics International, Inc. under assistance provided by USAID to improve environmental health conditions in the Czech transition to a market economy. From 1994-95, he was executive director of Trenton Business Assistance Corporation, an economic development loan fund in Trenton, NJ. From 1986-1991, he worked in various corporate banking and commercial lending positions with First Interstate Bank of Oregon ( now Wells Fargo Bank).

He is a board member of Mercy Corps Northwest, Open Meadow Alternative Schools, Willamette Riverkeeper, Our United Villages/The Rebuilding Center, The Food Alliance and Cascadia Times. He is a graduate of the University of Wyoming and native of Laramie, Wyoming.