Arnd Alexander Borges Rose é um inovador alemão/brasileiro na área de desenvolvimento sustentável e econômico, cooperação internacional e marketing. Alexander estudou comunicação, administração de empresas e gestão do conhecimento (desenvolvimento sustentável/PSA) no Brasil. Nos últimos 25 anos, Alexander ocupou diversos cargos executivos no Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD), na The Nature Conservancy (TNC Brasil, responsável pela campanha Plant-a-Billion), no Departamento de Economia e Assuntos Globais da na Embaixada da Alemanha no Brasil e na gigante das telecomunicações Huawei, onde foi responsável por relações governamentais, sustentabilidade e projetos de RSE, bem como programas de educação corporativa. Alexander tem experiência de trabalho na América do Sul, América Central e Alemanha. A partir de 2017, ele foi pioneiro no trabalho de acesso a mercados na GIZ (Corporação Alemã para Cooperação Internacional) no Brasil, com foco específico em bioeconomia, manejo florestal sustentável e parceria com o setor privado.

Alexandre (Alex) Alves é especialista em Parcerias Intersetoriais e Plataformas de Ação Coletiva. Nas últimas duas décadas, ele tem estado na vanguarda do desenvolvimento de parcerias com a academia, empresas do setor privado, organizações da sociedade civil, ONGs e governos. Atualmente é Especialista em Engajamento do Setor Privado da USAID/Brasil. Antes de ingressar na USAID, o Sr. Alves trabalhou como assistente econômico do Departamento de Estado na Embaixada dos Estados Unidos em Brasília. Antes disso, ele foi Reitor Assistente na Faculdade de Administração da Lewis University em Romeoville-Illinois. Há 13 anos está envolvido em discussões e desenho de soluções criativas para o desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia e a conservação de sua biodiversidade. Atuou na estruturação e implantação de duas plataformas inovadoras de ação coletiva – Grupo Mais Unidos (www.maisunidos.org) e Plataforma de Parcerias para a Amazônia (www.ppa.org.br). O Sr. Alves obteve um bacharelado com especialização em contrato pela Bethany College em Administração de Empresas e Ciências Políticas e MBA pela Lewis University. Alex é um escritor de ficção romântica e contos.

Amanda Joy Ravenhill é cofundadora da Regenerosity, uma colaboração filantrópica dedicada a acelerar a economia regenerativa para pessoas, planeta e prosperidade compartilhada. Amanda também é Diretora Executiva do Buckminster Fuller Institute, uma organização sem fins lucrativos dedicada a catalisar soluções transformadoras para problemas globais complexos por meio da educação em design thinking. Anteriormente, ela ocupou o cargo de Diretora Executiva do Projeto Drawdown, um plano abrangente para reverter o aquecimento global. Amanda também atua como consultora do Centro de Remoção de Carbono e é membro do comitê diretor do Nexus Global Climate Change Working Group. Outros cargos que ocupou incluem professora na Presidio Graduate School, lecionando o curso de Princípios de Gestão Sustentável; cofundadora do The Hero Hatchery, um programa de bolsas para ativistas climáticos; Coordenadora de parcerias de negócios na 350.org; e Fellow Americorp em Comunidades Sustentáveis e Educação. Ravenhill é impulsionada por sua experiência de viver e trabalhar internacionalmente, bem como por seu entusiasmo em integrar arte e ciência. Ela dá palestras e fala publicamente sobre tópicos tão abrangentes como biocarvões, design regenerativo, estratégias de redução de carbono, atenção plena e pensamento sistêmico. Ela é profundamente inspirada pela vida de Buckminster Fuller e seu objetivo de “fazer o mundo funcionar para 100% da humanidade no menor tempo possível por meio de cooperação espontânea sem ofensa ecológica ou desvantagem para ninguém”. Especialidades: mudança climática, negócios sustentáveis, biocarvão, facilitação gráfica, biomimética, investimento de impacto, financiamento para PMEs em mercados emergentes, organização comunitária, GIS, facilitação de reuniões, design thinking, contabilidade de custo total, economia ecológica, microfranquia, base da pirâmide , microgaseificação, fogões e pensamento sistêmico.

Amanda Paulson se juntou à equipe da Fundação Bobolink, uma fundação privada focada na conservação e biodiversidade, na primavera de 2020, e tem se concentrado no trabalho na Amazônia e na conservação de pradarias, entre outros projetos. Ela também atua como administradora da Bobolink. Antes disso, Amanda passou 20 anos como redatora do Christian Science Monitor, incluindo seis anos como chefe do escritório do meio-oeste. Naquela época, ela relatou sobre uma ampla gama de questões: educação, imigração, desastres naturais, política e eleições e meio ambiente. Nos últimos quatro anos, ela foi a principal redatora ambiental do Monitor, cobrindo mudanças climáticas, política ambiental, biodiversidade e ciência. Ela também atua nos conselhos da Rare, Thorne Nature Experience e no capítulo do Colorado da The Nature Conservancy. Amanda se formou no Dartmouth College em literatura comparada e estudos ambientais, e mora em Boulder, Colorado, com o marido e dois filhos. Ela passa o máximo de tempo possível ao ar livre, fazendo caminhadas, esquiando, andando de bicicleta e acampando, e também adora viajar, fotografar e ler.

Ana Carolina Avzaradel Szklo atuou como Gerente de Sustentabilidade do Instituto humanize, uma instituição filantrópica brasileira focada em contribuir para o desenvolvimento sustentável e promover a geração de renda. Foi responsável pelos portfólios de negócios de sustentabilidade e impacto. Anteriormente, ela trabalhou como Diretora de Desenvolvimento Técnico do Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CEBDS) e como ligação ao Conselho Empresarial Mundial para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (WBCSD), uma rede global de CEOs corporativos preocupados com o meio ambiente que reúne mais de 200 empresas. Ana Carolina tem 16 anos de experiência trabalhando em temas de sustentabilidade em 10 países e em diversos contextos, desde negociações climáticas dentro da UNFCCC e IPCC até desenvolvimento de projetos e defesa de direitos. Ela mantém uma ampla rede de colaboradores, incluindo líderes dos setores empresarial, governamental, ONG e acadêmico. Ela tem mestrado em Planejamento Ambiental e Energético, é economista e, para a UNFCCC, atua como membro da Lista de Especialistas como especialista em energia e Revisora Principal de inventários nacionais de gases de efeito estufa.

Amrita Vatsal é Diretora Geral da EFM, uma gestora de investimentos em ativos reais que investe em soluções climáticas naturais nas Américas. Amrita é membro da equipe de gestão da EFM. Nesta função, ela molda as estratégias de crescimento e investimento de impacto da empresa, gerenciando o desenvolvimento de novos produtos, estruturação de fundos e recrutamento de investidores. Além disso, como membro do comitê de investimentos, ela contribui para a aquisição de propriedades, estruturação de transações, financiamento de conservação e desenvolvimento de projetos de carbono. Antes da EFM, Amrita foi gerente assistente na Pricewaterhouse Coopers em Cingapura por 5 anos e posteriormente cultivou uma paixão por financiar o crescimento de negócios ambientais enquanto trabalhava para o grupo bancário de tecnologia limpa da Piper Jaffray. O seu amor pelas florestas começou durante uma passagem pela Indonésia, onde ajudou a desenvolver um projeto de carbono em 200.000 hectares de floresta tropical de turfa intocada. Amrita é membro do Erb Institute e se formou na Universidade de Michigan com MBA e mestrado em Recursos Naturais.

Austin Thompson works on supply chain operations for Starlink, a satellite constellation operated by SpaceX, providing Internet access coverage to dozens of countries. He also manages donor relations for a Starlink social impact initiative to help people and organizations use the ground breaking technology. Austin is a trusted advisor and mentor to several high-impact nonprofits and start-up ventures spanning technology, healthcare, and social/environmental causes. Previously, Austin supported efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with healthcare providers and led training and support for groups such as Southern Vision Alliance. He supported the launch and implementation of the Technology and Media Innovation Initiative at the Four Freedoms Fund, capturing novel practices on the role of digital technologies to scale immigrant and refugee advocacy. Austin was recognized as one of the “top 40 under 40” in Washington Life magazine for his leadership as Executive Director of the Youth Engagement Fund where he raised and moved millions of dollars to empower marginalized youth and emerging leaders. Austin graduated with honors from Howard University in Washington D.C. and earned his MBA from Duke University at the Fuqua School of Business.

Caroline Kronley is the president of the Tinker Foundation, which funds civil society organizations in Latin America in the areas of governance, education, and natural resource management. Previously, she worked as the Managing Director for Strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation, leading development of new programmatic initiatives. Earlier in her career, she was a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners as well as Booz & Company where she served a broad range of clients on strategy and organizational performance. Caroline worked for a number of years in Mexico, where she oversaw strategic planning activities for a microfinance institution. In this role, she designed and led marketing, partnership, training, and program evaluation initiatives. Caroline graduated from Haverford College with a degree in History and a concentration in Latin American studies and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Carolina Munis has a background in International Relations and is the Brazil Program Officer at Oak Foundation, where she develops grant-making and capacity building strategies to fight systemic violence. She is an experienced facilitator of educational processes for activists and a former member of Escola de Ativismo (School of Activism), a collective with the mission to strengthen the capacities of urban and rural social movements across Brazil. Her work is deeply guided by popular education, regenerative governance, and phenomenology. Carolina coordinated multiple experimental initiatives of flexible funding and movement-building for activist communities, including those focused on climate change and climate justice, diversity in electoral politics, and labor dignity for sex workers. She is enthusiastic about all forms of collective organizing and has, for the past seven years, researched and implemented self-management practices in civil society organizations, activist groups, and communities. She is a former co-editor of Revista Tuíra, a magazine focused on contemporary activism, and a partner of Beautiful Trouble, a platform to strengthen creative, nonviolent activism across the globe.

Craig Cogut has spent a career building successful investment businesses. Mr. Cogut founded Pegasus, a private equity fund, in 1995 and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Through Mr. Cogut’s leadership, Pegasus has focused on sectors influenced by global resource scarcity and the need to combat climate change, as well as on the growth in demands globally for human health and wellness, leading to Pegasus becoming the first U.S. private equity fund manager to be accredited by the Green Climate Fund. In 1990 Mr. Cogut co-founded and was one of the original partners at Apollo Advisors L.P., a position he held for six years preceding the creation of Pegasus. Mr. Cogut is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of HealthE, Inc. and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of PanTheryx.  In addition, Mr. Cogut has been an active philanthropist in the fields of improving education, building civil society and championing environmental and health issues. Mr. Cogut currently serves as Chairman of the finance advisory board of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, a non-profit focused on leveraging private finance for public good in order to achieve sustainable development goals.  Mr. Cogut is an alumnus of Brown University and Harvard Law School.

Daniel R. Katz is the Vice President of Environment Program at the Overbrook Foundation, a grantmaker focused on human rights and the environment. He directs environmental philanthropy in areas ranging from biodiversity conservation and sustainable consumption to movement building and innovation. He is the Board Chair and former president of the Rainforest Alliance, an organization he co-founded in 1986 at the age of 24. He is currently spearheading initiatives to build a stronger, more inclusive, and more equitable environmental movement in the United States. A former Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow, Mr. Katz has served as a consultant, adviser, and board member for numerous organizations including People for the American Way, Grist.org, the Gibson Guitar Foundation, and the Nespresso Sustainability Advisory Board. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the editor of two volumes: Why Freedom Matters: The Spirit of the Declaration of Independence in Prose, Poetry and Song (Workman) and Tales from the Jungle: A Rainforest Reader (Crown). Mr. Katz is a frequent speaker at colleges and universities around the country on the topics of the social entrepreneurism, rainforest conservation, sustainability, and leadership. He received his MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he also taught on sustainability and business. He is an ICF accredited executive coach and received his training at the Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara, CA. Mr. Katz studied Chinese linguistics in Wuhan, the People’s Republic of China. He lives in New York City with his wife, Maggie, and their two children.

Daniel Sabará is the CEO of Beraca SA, a leading supplier of natural and organic-certified ingredients sourced sustainably from Amazon biodiversity. A forward thinking leader with extensive management experience, Daniel develops business models that serve fast changing markets and demands. He serves as a key presenter on sustainable development at leading ethical-sourcing roundtables and events. Through his work on new market strategies, Daniel adds value to international brands, preserves biodiversity, and increases income for local communities. By helping employees and customers develop meaningful connections to a brand’s core beliefs, Daniel helps to increase engagement, awareness, and retention. He also manages “Green Chemistry” efforts that innovate cosmetic products and enable traceable supply chains. By integrating work on nature and technology, Daniel helped to launch the first multifunctional insect repellant offering 24 hrs of hydration and 6 hrs of repellency. In 2015, Daniel co-founded the Beraca Institute to help bring new income to local Amazon communities and to teach corporations how to consistently source sustainable produce from them.

Danielle Carreira is an environment, climate and sustainable finance specialist and brings nearly fifteen years’ experience developing and implementing multi-stakeholder initiatives that helps the global finance sector to understand and integrate environmental risks and opportunities into investment and lending processes. As Head of Finance Sector Engagement at the Tropical Forest Alliance, an initiative hosted by the World Economic Forum, she is responsible for the strategic development, implementation and coordination of a platform, that brings together public policy makers, financial institutions, global companies and commodity producers from key countries, towards an inclusive and collective action agenda to reduce deforestation and accelerate the transition towards more sustainable land use practices. Danielle is a member of the Expert Review Committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Food and Agriculture Benchmark and supports the development of the Food and Agriculture Benchmark. Danielle has previously worked at the Principle for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Natural Capital Finance Alliance, Trucost, FTSE Russel, Reuters and Bloomberg. She has co-authored the report “Natural Capital Risk Exposure of the Finance Sector in Brazil in 2015. Her most recent publication, The State of Finance for Nature, was published in May 2021. Danielle holds an MA in International Finance and a BSc in Economic Sciences.

Denis Minev is CEO of Bemol, a top retailer in northern Brazil. He is also a Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Fundação Amazonas Sustentável, an NGO that promotes development and conservation in poor communities of the Brazilian Amazon. In 2012, he was nominated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Between 2007 and 2009, Minev served as State Secretary for Planning and Economic Development of Amazonas and was previously an analyst at Goldman Sachs. He holds a BA in Economics and an MA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Diego Saez-Gil is Co-founder & CEO of Pachama, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence and satellite data to verify and monitor carbon sequestration by forests, in order to drive more funding to their conservation and restoration. Prior to Pachama, Diego co-founded Bluesmart (acquired by TravelPro) and WeHostels (acquired by StudentUniverse). Diego was awarded MIT 35 Under 35 and was selected High Impact Entrepreneur by Endeavor.

Ethan Steinberg is a startup growth expert, turned soil health geek, who is focused on turning ideas into reality. He has helped scale ventures domestically and internationally in industries such as the sharing economy, consumer packaged goods, and B Corp businesses. He is the CEO at Propagate Ventures, an agroforestry investments & project development platform focused on bridging the capital and operational needs for the integration of tree crops to farmland. At Propagate, Ethan leads business development, investor relations, marketing, and growth strategy. He holds a B.A. in Social Justice & Sustainability from Miami University, is a Board Member at the Association for Temperate Agroforestry, as well as an Advisory Board member at Purpose + Sport. He also manages Propagate.org, a curated news hub on the regenerative economy. Having been born on Earth day, he has been passionate about the environment for his entire life and enjoys living at the intersection of regeneration & technology.

Fernando Russo is Founder and GP of the Meraki Impact, an impact investing company managing the investments of a single family office toward a “100% Impact” portfolio focused on changing food systems and scaling regenerative agriculture. Fernando has over 15 years of experience in marketing and entrepreneurship, including 9 years running his own startup in Brazil from inception to exit. After selling his company in 2015, he joined the Executive MBA at INSEAD, starting his career as an impact investor in 2016 and founding Meraki. Today, Fernando also serves as a board member and business strategist for reNature, a company dedicated to mainstreaming regenerative agroforestry by designing and implementing model farms and schools.

Fiona Banister is a multidisciplinary catalyst for human rights, social good, climate resilience and sustainable development worldwide. Her goal is to create positive impact and innovate change. With a global team of scientists, farmers, technologists, social impact investors, youth and family offices, she curates decarbonization impact investing climate summits and an ongoing panel series: decarbonized.org. Aligned with an international network, her current focus is on cultivating core impact projects that help the environment and empower humans to invest and participate with the lens of the 17 UN SDG Goals. This includes collaboration on sustainable infrastructure for regenerative forest holdings (Arboreal), ocean technology, inclusive health technology, renewable energy, eco-green low-income housing, blockchain, fin-tech, IoT, organic food and micro-finance. Driving for an equal access to opportunities for the “inbanked”, she is involved in a disruptive fin-tech banking system using a smart biometric ID/wallet for peer-to-peer payment technology. Ethernom.com. Fiona and family are impact investing members of Toniic and NEXUS. She is an alliance builder for conservation and sustainable projects: Oceaneos.org, Soileos.com, Futuroforestal.com, Thegenerationforest.com, Amazonaid.org, Mcmef.org, Wildbirdtrust.com. Inspired by the vital human rights actions of the Indian environmental lawyer M.C.Mehta, advocates for environmental education programs to cultivate the next generations of climate leaders and stewards. As a trained Waldorf teacher, parent, biodynamic gardener, herbalist and yogi, her alchemy is in respecting biomimicry and learning lessons from nature. Fiona believes that if you can see a problem, then you can collaborate to create the impact solution and plant an organic seed for the next generation to grow.

Francis von Hildebrand is the Chief Executive Director of Gaia Amazonas Foundation, a Colombian NGO whose mission is to protect the Amazon, biocultural diversity, and socio-environmental resilience while actively partnering and collaborating with Indigenous Governments and communities. Francis is a professional in Development Studies and is an expert specialized in local development strategies, local governance, and inter-cultural environmental management with a strong emphasis on community-based research and participation. He has led Gaia Amazonas as its Director and CEO since 2012, and, previously worked for a decade in the organization as a researcher advancing development and conservation projects with indigenous communities in Colombia and in transfrontier projects. He currently leads an interdisciplinary team of more than 80 people, who work in the recognition and implementation of the Indigenous Territories and their government figures, all this, through the organization’s work areas: Indigenous Territories, Political Advocacy, Intercultural knowledge, Regional conservation strategies, Communications, and Geographic Information Systems.

Gregory Landua is co-founder and CEO of Regen Network. Regen Network is leading the way towards tracking and funding ecological regeneration using blockchain technology. Before founding Regen Network, Gregory co-founded and grew Terra Genesis International from a Regenerative Agriculture consultancy and design firm, into a leader in the Regenerative Agriculture and Economy movement, and successfully grew and exited a craft chocolate company focused on regenerative, bean to bar craft chocolate called Nova Chocolate. As an author, educator and thought leader, Gregory co-authored the pioneering book, Regenerative Enterprise in 2012, and the Levels of Regenerative Agriculture white paper in 2016, and recently the founding Regen Network white paper. Websites based on his work include: www.regenerativecacao.com, www.regenterprise.org, and www.regenerativeagriculturedefinition.com. Gregory studied, invested in and created a community around regenerative applications of Blockchain Technology in early 2017, leading to the founding of Regen Network. Now, as co-founder of Regen Network, Gregory is working to link economic value to ecological regeneration. Regen Network is a blockchain driven transparency and smart contracting platform designed to facilitate the verification of ecological state and coordinate multi-stakeholder groups to achieve ecological regeneration through smart-ecological contracts.

Gustavo Pinheiro manages the carbon portfolio for Instituto Clima e Sociedade (ICS), a Brazilian philanthropy that promotes prosperity, justice and low-carbon economies. Previously, Gustavo co-founded Bratus Natural Capital in 2015, investing in start-ups with a social and environmental impact. He was director of government relations for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Brasília, working on policies for the environment, infrastructure and agriculture. He has supported indigenous peoples and organizations from the Brazilian Amazon at the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). In addition, he managed ABN-AMRO Bank’s corporate digital channel operations until 2005. Gustavo was also a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Ministry of Culture and the São Paulo transportation department. He has a degree in public administration from the São Paulo Business School – Fundação Getúlio Vargas and specialized in economic conservation tools in a joint program at the University of Brasília (UNB) with the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) and the International Institute of Education of Brazil (IEB) and social change at the Harvard Kennedy School. As the coordinator of the low carbon economy portfolio, Gustavo supports the financing of projects that contribute to the acceleration of the decarbonization of the Brazilian economy.

Holt Thrasher has more than 35 years of experience in investment banking, information technology, and consulting. He currently is Founder and CEO of Synovia Capital, an investment platform focused on sustainable land and water use technology. He recently served as Group CEO of Permian Global, focused on climate change mitigation through the effective management of large areas of tropical forests. Prior to Permian Global, he founded and served as Managing Partner of Mooreland Partners, an information technology sector focused investment bank (acquired by Stifel Financial Corp in 2019). Holt previously was a Partner at Broadview Holdings, a global merger and acquisition advisory and investment firm. Holt has been an active conservationist and nature enthusiast for more than 20 years. He currently serves as Trustee and Treasurer of the National Marine Sanctuaries Foundation, supporting the 640,000 square miles of national marine sanctuaries managed by NOAA and as a board member of Mongabay, the global environmental news organization. He also serves on the President’s Council of Ceres, a non-profit focused on investors and sustainability. Holt is Chairman Emeritus of the National Audubon Society. In 2001, he was a founding member and Chair of the Board of Audubon Connecticut. He joined Audubon’s National Board five years later and served as Chair from 2008 until 2014. Holt has a B.A. from Colby College and an M.B.A. from the International Institute of Management Development, Switzerland. He and his family live in Greenwich, CT.

Iago Hairon is the Climate Justice Program Officer of the Open Society Foundations – Latin America. Originally from Bahia, Brazil, he is a social scientist and climate activist. Iago began to work on climate issues at age 13 through the Scouting movement of Brazil. He served as a global youth ambassador for Plant-for-the-Planet and had success as an organizer and social entrepreneur. As a leader of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, he was trained by Al Gore and other environmental experts. He has diverse experiences from international conferences and inter-governmental climate negotiations including those of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and more. As a Young-Changemaker-for-Democracy awardee of Ashoka and a graduate of the Federal University of Recôncavo Bahia, Iago currently serves as a board member and/or advisor to various groups including Engajamundo (a youth-led climate organization), Plant-for-the-Planet, and others.

Kelly Michel catalyzes startups in emerging markets. She is CEO of Potencia Ventures, an impact investment fund focused on business models that improve the lives of lower income people. Kelly previously co-founded an impact business accelerator (Artemisia) and a venture capital firm (Vox Capital) in Brazil. With partners, she is currently building a portfolio of direct investments in education companies that tangibly improve learning outcomes for low-to-middle income students in Latin America.

Keith Agoada is CEO of Producers Market, a market linkage technology platform dedicated to empowering its producer members around the globe with access to innovative digitization, aggregation, and marketing tools. Keith has worked in the supply side of the agricultural industry for the past decade. He is the founder of the commercial urban agriculture firm, Sky Vegetables, which pioneered the integration of greenhouse hydroponic agriculture in urban environments. After being acquired of majority ownership, Keith consulted in the founding and initial development of leading organic agriculture real estate developer, Simply Natural. Prior to his work with Producers Market Keith spent the last four years in international procurement development roles for UNFI, Global Organics, Veg Fresh Farms and other leading organic brands in the United States. Keith speaks four languages: English, Spanish, Producer, and Buyer. He maintains on-the-ground relationships with leading growers, packers and processors globally and works every day to transform the industry to return more profits back to farmers. Keith’s passion for supporting producers is the initial inspiration behind the Producers Market platform. He envisions disrupting the $4 trillion agriculture value chain industry by creating a world that is fully organic and empowers farmers with better payments and end-consumers with more transparency to the source of production.

Jack Tordoff is the Managing Director of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, a funding mechanism created in 2000 to support civil society organizations in biodiversity hotspots of emerging economies. As the managing director of the CEPF, Jack is responsible for ensuring efficient and strategic grant-making. In addition to supervising CEPF’s team of grant directors, he has direct responsibility for CEPF’s portfolio in the Indo-Burma Hotspot. Jack joined CEPF in 2009, as a grant director for the Asia-Pacific region, having previously spent 10 years with BirdLife International. He also worked as a consultant on several World Bank-supported initiatives. Jack graduated from Oxford University and completed postgraduate studies at Cambridge University.

Juliana Strobel is a Regional Manager for the Avina Foundation, a Latin American philanthropy that promotes sustainability through collaboration. She is responsible for climate resilience work in the Amazon region, building Brazilian social networks and implementing local-level sustainability programs. Juliana is an economist with over 10 years of experience working on social and environmental issues and 10 years in the private sector. She specializes in supporting group social dynamics and team collaboration processes among diverse stakeholders, including NGOs, companies and governments. Juliana has also worked for a German multinational company where she supported collective-action initiatives. Throughout her career, she has worked on strategic planning, team building, project management, and partnership coordination among diverse organizations. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English, and functional in German.

Lenny Martinez is an Impact Manager for Moringa Partnership. Previously, he worked as Head of Sustainability for 12Tree (2018-2021) and as Project Manager for Forest Finance (2014-2018). Over the past eight years, Martinez has worked on several forestry and agricultural projects in Central and South America. He led the 12Tree sustainability department and worked with the sales team to market cocoa beans to European and US chocolate makers. At Forest Finance, he was responsible for a cocoa farm in San Martin (Peru) and a small pilot almond farm in the South of France. In 2021, he joined Moringa Partnership to invest in factories that process organic and fair trade products such as cashew, mango/pineapple, palm oil, in the countries where the raw materials are produced. Moringa Partnership is financed by the Edmond de Rothschild Bank and other development finance institutions. Martinez graduated from Sciences Po in 2013, completing an MSc in international cooperation and economic development, with a specialization in agricultural and food policies in Southern countries. He also holds an MA in European Policies, Public Affairs, with a specialization in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Martinez has professional experience in both the public and private sectors and in several European countries. He worked for the European think tank Eating City, in France and Italy, the NGO Action Against Hunger in Spain, the German Environmental Foundation in Germany, and local Deputies in France. Martinez loves to learn about and work in agroecology and sustainable cocoa farming. In particular, he is interested in the sourcing of fair-trade and organic products, land governance/access to land tenure, support to family farming and agricultural practices aimed at regenerating soils, and diversifying agricultural crops – in the same plot of land.