Paul Chatterton

Paul is the founder and lead of the Landscape Finance Lab. During an extensive career with WWF, Paul has catalysed results including the first jurisdictional scale forest and climate (REDD+) programs on two continents, Europe’s longest river protected area and the largest rainforest reserve in the Pacific.

Paul is a co-author of the Little Sustainable Landscape Book and co-initiator of Landmapp, a mobile app to provide affordable land tenure to rural communities.

Raphaele Deau

Expertise: Sustainable Sourcing, Corporate Engagement, Green Growth, Sustainable Finance, Carbon Finance

Raphaele comes to the Lab with specific expertise on sustainable value chains and green growth development. She has extensive experience in the Mekong region, and a strong track record in bringing together private companies, environmental NGOs and government agencies to collaborate on low carbon development, responsible financial investments and Natural Capital Valuation.
At WWF Raphaele has acted as Coordinator of the ‘Impact in the Forests’ report, a Lab intelligence report that sets recommendations to accelerate deforestation-free businesses.
Previously Raphaele worked on the co-benefits of carbon finance, with social enterprise projects giving access to clean energy and water for all. In another life, Raphaele worked in advertising, the music industry and performing arts production.

LFL Role
Raphaele will share her strategic and technical support on sustainable sourcing with the Lab. Her role is to incubate and accelerate climate resilient supply chain schemes that, by their scale, can facilitate access to untapped climate finance.

Deesha Chandra

Expertise: Community Engagement; Open Innovation; Digital Collaboration; Content Curation; Project Management; Law

Deesha is passionate about helping people and diverse sectors collaborate, increasing community engagement and igniting social innovation. She has over 10 years experience in a multi-sector environment, developing and managing communities.

Deesha brings with her experience in program design for start ups and managed the Fellowship for Longer Lives programme (an acceleration program for early stage start-ups focusing on impacting the Ageing population in the UK), at Impact Hub King’s Cross.  She has recently published a free and living resource (crowdsourcing4impact.org) for charities and non-profits who want to use crowdsourcing to engage and innovate with their communities and partners.

LFL Role
Deesha oversees the process of building the entire global community of the Lab, connecting stakeholders, curating content, guiding members through the Lab’s incubation platform and leading on strategy.

Marianne Smallwood

Expertise: Sustainable Sourcing, Landscape Conservation, Private Sector and Donor Engagement, Social Enterprises, Impact Investing

Marianne is a sustainability and international development professional with extensive experience in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Her areas of expertise include sustainable sourcing, corporate engagement, early-stage grant investment, and social and environmental responsibility.

Before joining the Lab, Marianne led private sector engagement in Asia for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and supported USAID’s global work in partnerships, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing, with a focus on the agriculture and environment sectors. Prior to USAID, Marianne worked in the nonprofit sectors in Vietnam and Cambodia, was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam, and worked in the consumer packaged goods industry at General Mills in the U.S.

LFL Role
Marianne leads the management and development of the Lab’s landscapes portfolio and ensures the effective delivery of Lab support to landscapes teams worldwide.

Erik Dexperts-Lestapis

Expertise: Corporate finance, Sales operations, Supply chain operations and Project management

Erik has spent almost two decades in the corporate world and the outdoor industry where he developed a wide experience in operations management including finance, sales, supply chain and project. Passionate surfer and photographer, he landed in Malaysia 3 years ago with his wife and the strong desire to give their two boys another point of view on the world. It was an opportunity to dive into entrepreneurship and test his business acumen with the co-creation of a start-up in the audio identity area. The LAB is for him a unique opportunity to get involved in something that matters and support a true innovative initiative that will definitely help make a difference for the future.

LFL Role
Erik will share his background to help the Lab scale up operations and build efficient systems & processes to support the team.

Claire Bramley

Expertise: Corporate sustainability, supply chain management, project management,

Claire has a degree in Biology and a background in corporate responsibility, certification and supply chain sustainability. She previously worked for UK retailer Sainsbury’s as a Sustainability Manager where she was responsible for sustainable raw material sourcing across the company. Within her 7 years at WWF she headed up the Water Stewardship programme at WWF-UK working on corporate partnerships with international retailers and beverage companies. In this capacity she engaged companies to ensure they are protecting and managing natural assets by reforming core business operations, engaging with stakeholders and advocating policy reform. She then moved to WWF-International to continue this work as a Global Water Stewardship Manager supporting corporate partnerships globally and most recently lead the WWF community on Sustainable Landscapes.

LFL Role
Claire will support Raphaele in the Markets team.

Jenneke Bijl-Segers

Expertise: Seasoned banker that worked in commercial, restructuring and risk management departments. Jenneke financed renewable energy and water projects when this was still a new industry and purchased carbon credits in developing countries during the early days of the carbon market. In addition she has experience in creating systemic change in agri-supply chains and the creation of a holistic landscape vision among multiple stakeholders.

Jenneke’s key ambition is to contribute to economies of developing countries in a commercially viable way. With this in mind, she worked in an international banking environment for more than 15 years. She is also passionate about the opportunities created from connecting social impact, food systems, water, soil and business. She was able to harness this from her time at Commonland, an organisation specialising in holistic landscape restoration.

Lab role
Jenneke uses her financing expertise to structure investments into key landscapes, develop bankable projects, provide training and coordination with landscape teams and engage with different stakeholders to jointly build the landscape finance sector.

Iulia Buruiana

Expertise: Finance process optimization, cash-flow management, cost analysis, strategic finance planning, Budgeting, Controlling

Iulia has been passionate about numbers ever since graduating from the University of Economic Studies in Bucharest and has put the passion to work in her Master’s degree in Financial Analysis and Valuation. She brings over 11 years of experience in various strategic finance-analysis and management roles. Iulia has managed Customer service division, coordinated deployment ERP solutions and most recently held the CFO position with her previous employer.
In her spare time, as well at work, Iulia is keen to optimize processes around her and come up with ideas of how we could be more efficient.
Growing up in Romania, close to some of the most unique landscapes around Europe, Iulia is quite interested in wildlife and nature and is happy to contribute to the great goals of the Lab.

LFL Role
As Finance & Administration Manager she provides financial & operational support to the Lab team in terms of process definition and standardization, contract administration, financial reporting to donors and related cost accounting activities to build financial visibility on customers, products and projects.

Teresa Weiss

Expertise: Project management, Economics and Socio-economics, Reporting

Teresa brings along long-term experience in the project management of large-scale EU funded projects with several international partners. She has strong skills in planning and structuring processes in order to support her team guaranteeing a smooth project implementation. Teresa studied economics and socio-economics with focus on environmental topics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Before joining WWF she worked as research associate for several years. As she is very interested in the topic of sustainable land use it is a great opportunity for her to be part of the Lab team.

LFL Role
As Program Operations Manager Teresa structures and manages overall operations for key donors, partners and customers of the WWF Landscape Finance Lab in close collaboration with the Lab Lead, the Operations lead and the team.

Ingeborg Mägi

Expertise: Landscape Approaches, Program management, Community Engagement

Ingeborg is embedded at WWF, where she works on developing large-scale multi-stakeholder landscape programs and leading WWF’s community on Sustainable Landscapes. Before joining WWF, Ingeborg worked at Land Life Company, a global nature restoration company providing technical solutions for large-scale reforestation projects on degraded areas. She developed grants and proposals for both state and private funds and worked on forest landscape restoration projects in Africa. She has also worked as a consultant for risk-based land remediation projects at Witteveen+Bos Engineering, working on land remediation/restoration projects in Asia and Africa.

LFL Role
Ingeborg works together with Deesha on building the Lab’s and WWF’s joint global community, connecting stakeholders, facilitating knowledge exchange and dialogue, curating content, and leading on community engagement strategy.