As a climate change specialist in the land use sector, Alex has over 13 years of experience in climate change mitigation, project management, data analysis and capacity building across the globe. He has advised national and regional governments, civil society organizations and other stakeholders in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands on REDD+, sustainable land-use planning, forest monitoring, ecosystem valuation, carbon markets, carbon project development and GHG accounting. This includes advising, Malawi, Ghana and Vietnam on the development of their national forest reference levels. He has led and managed the implementation of $10M+ projects, managing budgets and sub-contractors, supervising staff and consultants.
Prior to joining Revalue, Alex served as a Climate Change Lead in Winrock International’s Ecosystem Services team. Alex holds a Master of Environmental Science and Law, and an Honors Bachelors of Science. He has experience working in Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lao PDR, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, the Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, Australia, and the United States.
Gabriel is an expert in REDD+ projects and methodologies, forest carbon monitoring, and spatial analysis in scenarios for development and conservation evaluation. He co-authored Verra's VM0015 Avoided Unplanned Deforestation and Degradation (AUDD) methodology, and REDD+ experience in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Nigeria; notably in the Juma Reserve REDD project and Suri Forest Carbon Project in Brazil, and the Bale Mountains Ecoregion REDD+ project in Ethiopia.
Prior to his current role, Gabriel served as consultant Specialist and Technical advisor in Land-Use-Change and Climate Change in the tropics for various private and government organizations such as Forest Trends, Inter-American Development Bank, Mirova, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), and UN Environmental Programme.
Gabriel is a highly skilled conservation practitioner leader with over 15 years of experience in conservation practice and science related to Biology, Ecology, Geography and Forest Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. in geography, specialising in land use change and development in the Brazilian Amazon basin.
Alexa has twenty years of experience working in forest climate ecology in the private, civil, and academic sectors. She has worked extensively across all three tropical basins on end-to-end delivery of REDD+, including on the Katingan Mentaya Project for Permian Global, which is the world’s largest VCM project, and leads Revalue Nature’s Portfolio development.
Through her scientific background in climate ecology, and as a trained statistician, Alexa delivers evidence-based decision making on our portfolio. An ESG specialist, has advised on climate strategy for major investment houses, and was selected as one of twenty individuals globally to train under UNITAR’s Executive Leadership Programme in Evaluation and the UN SDGs.
Prior to her current role, she spent 2 years establishing the sustainability department at Sampoerna Kayoe, one of Indonesia's largest timber companies. Here, she developed the sustainability strategy and implemented projects across supply chain and operations. Much of the work involved working with smallholder farmers across Indonesia, focusing on sustainable forest management and livelihoods.
Amanda holds a degree in International Relations and Politics from Cardiff University.
Bright ensures the delivery of our portfolio projects in Africa focusing on the project development, implementation, and monitoring and reporting phases.
Bright brings to the Revalue Nature team over 15 years of experience in biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, natural resources management, development of community resource management and governance systems across Africa, Europe and North America. Bright has extensive experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and development of Payment for Ecosystem Services in tropical forest and savanna landscapes. Prior to Revalue, Bright worked on different projects with institutions including the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo, UNEP (Ghana Office), Fairtrade Africa, UNEP-WCMC, Winrock International, Tetra Tech ARD, Landesa, Nature Conservation and Research Centre (NCRC) and the Viridis Environmental Consult (Ghana).
Bright was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Université Laval, Quebec, Canada and Chevening Scholar in Biodiversity at the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United UK. He holds a PhD (Forest Ecology) from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, MSc. (Ecology & Evolution) from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and BSc. (Natural Resource Management) from Ghana. Bright is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) and Alternative Dispute Resolution expert (Adr. Negotiator and Mediator) with ADR International.
Doug’s profession and passion is ensuring Africa’s unique biodiversity and ecosystems are valued and paid for by society.
For the past 5 years Doug has been a leader within SYSTEMIQ’s Natural Solutions practice, whose core focus is developing business models and partnerships that finance nature conservation and restoration across the tropics and subtropics. Doug led much of SYSTEMIQ's work on nature-based carbon, ranging from jurisdictional development to corporate partnerships and sales.
Doug has a First Class degree in Biological Sciences, and a professional background across education leadership, strategy consulting and venture investing. He believes carbon credits are an important step on the path to meaningfully integrating nature’s services into the global economy and has a personal mission to see Africa’s megafauna valued and paid for through international financing mechanisms.
Makhotso works closely with our in-country partners to assess and develop our pipeline of ecosystem service projects in Africa. Through her work, Makhotso continually aims to promote extensive community engagement to ensure that vulnerable communities — including marginalised groups — are at the forefront of building their own resilience and, as well as the ecosystems upon which they depend.
Makhotso holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and English from the University of Botswana. Prior to joining Revalue Nature, Makhotso, worked on the design and development of climate change adaptation projects for C4 EcoSolutions in South Africa, focusing — funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) — for several countries, including Botswana, Malawi, Haiti, Tuvalu and Liberi
Nico is a result-driven and enthusiastic Spatial Data Scientist, Supply-Chain management expert and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience. He has worked in various sectors such as health, energy, economic empowerment, environment services and emergency response with local and international NGOs, UN agencies, and for-profit companies in multiple countries in Europe, West & Austral Africa, the Middle-East and South-East Asia.
Nico holds a M.A. in Global Affairs & International Development Studies with specialization in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and a M.Sc. in Global Supply-Chain Management
Edit is also a Non-Executive Board Director of the UK’s first rewilding business, the Real Wild Estates Company, co-chair of IETA’s Natural Climate Solutions working group and Steering Committee Member of the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation.
Prior to her current role, Edit was Investment and Development Director at Mirova Natural Capital where from its launch in 2013 until March 2022, she managed the pioneering EUR100m Althelia Climate Fund portfolio including the monetisation strategy through its affiliate Ecosphere+, as a Member of the Executive Committee. In addition, she has been leading on the company’s new development activities, including the origination, and structuring the L’Oreal Fund for Nature Regeneration, Nature+ Accelerator Fund and Orange Nature Fund managed by Mirova.
Edit has over 16 years of experience in climate finance, carbon markets and conservation finance impact investing having worked in various financial institutions, carbon funds and renewable energy companies in London, Paris, Lugano, Rotterdam and Budapest. Edit has experience on REDD+ in Peru, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, including cocoa agroforestry and sustainable cattle.
She is an environmental economist, HEC Paris, CEMS and Goldman Sachs Global Leader Alumni and has been a guest speaker at several international climate and conservation finance conferences worldwide.
Laura has spent the last year researching forest-positive business models in the Brazilian Amazon, including regenerative cocoa farming in the state of Para with De Mendes chocolatiers and mushroom cultivation in the state of Amazonas with mycologists at INPA (National Institute for Amazonian Research).
Prior to her current role, she was a key member of Milbank’s market-leading financial restructuring practice in London handling complex problems and advising investors on negotiated multi-billion dollar international restructurings and corporate rescue transactions. Laura was recognised by the Turnaround Management Association with the 2020 transaction of the year award for the successful restructuring of Portuguese cabling business Solidal Condutores Electricos.
Laura brings 10+ years of wide ranging legal expertise across company life cycles from start-up / VC / PE / M&A to restructurings across multiple industries (including tech & fintech, food processing, civil engineering, retail & industry).
Laura holds an LLB from the School of Oriental & African Studies in London and and LLM from New York University. Laura is admitted to practice in England & Wales.
Stuart founded Revalue to rethink carbon project development from the ground up, building a company which supercharges the world's leading nature-based developers.
He spent 5 years scaling ventures focused on Natural Solutions before building Revalue, including as South East Asia Director for a GBP 120m incubator facility.
During his time as a Director with SYSTEMIQ he helped build their Indonesia Office from 4 people to 100+, including establishing their spatial intelligence team and capabilities. He is a systems nerd, with expertise in delivering complex portfolios and programmes at scale.
Formally a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company in London he worked across Europe and North America in a range of industries including engineering, finance, media, telecoms, and healthcare.
Stuart was an entrepreneur as part of the second cohort of the Entrepreneur First accelerator, holds a degree in physics from University of Oxford, is a lifelong tech nerd, lives in Indonesia, and tries to spend as much time in nature as possible.
Emily has spent the last year building the LEAF Coalition (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance), which mobilized >$1B for jurisdictional REDD+ in 2021. Here, she developed and delivered projects across operations, strategy and finance.
Prior to this, Emily served as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. where she delivered sustainability strategy for a range of private and public clients. Much of this work involved a focus on nature-based solutions and voluntary carbon markets.
Emily holds a degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge, and has conservation volunteering experience in the Malua Forest Reserve (Borneo) and Pico Turquino National Park (Cuba).
