Connor Gibson

Gibson’s research is primarily focused on the donations made by the Koch family foundations to organizations that oppose radical environmentalist approaches to addressing climate change. ³

Career

Connor Gibson joined Greenpeace in 2010 as an investigative researcher focusing on opposition research targeting libertarian entrepreneurs and philanthropists Charles and David Koch. ¹ Gibson began tracking the Koch family foundations’ donations to organizations that supposedly fight against solutions addressing climate change. ³ Greenpeace has gone as far as to publish over 30 years’ worth of donations from the Koch family foundations to support their claims. ⁴

Gibson is a regular contributor to Greenpeace’s PolluterWatch project, a collection of left-wing opposition research that identifies both individual and corporate “polluters,” which includes any person or entity that opposes left-wing environmentalism. ⁵

Gibson is a senior contributor at Koch Docs, a center-left investigative research website that launched in 2019. A joint project of Greenpeace and the Center for Media and Democracy, Koch Docs compiles documents and analysis of the political influence and groups associated with Charles Koch. ⁶

Gibson is a co-founder of UnKoch My Campus, a left-wing attack group critical of Charles and David Koch and other influential libertarian and conservative donors to higher education. ⁷

UnKoch My Campus has launched campaigns at a handful of universities, including Ball State. Despite the claims made by UnKoch My Campus, the Ball State’s agreement with the Charles Koch Foundation, after receiving a $3.25 million donation, has checks and balances in place, leaving it at the discretion of the school to hire professors and select the learning material for coursework. ⁸