Forest Carbon

With a combined background in economics and environmental science, Jeff has led the project feasibility, design and investment process for multiple ecosystem services projects in Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia. Jeff is the Project Technical Director for Forest Carbons 23,000-hectare Sumatra Merang Peatland project and oversees all aspects of the... investment from Althelia Climate Fund. Jeff holds a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University and a Master of Environmental Science (MESc) from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Jeff has published a book on mangrove ecosystems in West Africa, is a registered practitioner of the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach and is a former Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia. Devan raises capital to launch the companys new forest restoration projects. Devan has designed and evaluated business models for multiple companies and clients across Southeast Asia, including community forests, stranded assets, national parks and privately-financed carbon offset projects. In addition to overseeing the growth strategy for the company, Devan leads communications, sales and business development, drawing on a decade of relationship building stakeholder management. With an early career for the humanitarian NGO Mercy Corps, Devan has seen climate risk emerge firsthand while working on community mitigation programming in northern Mali and Niger. Devan has also managed humanitarian response communications in post-earthquake Haiti and served as a Small Enterprise Development volunteer while in the Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa. Ophelia has 17 years of experience in geospatial work of biodiversity, conservation prioritization, spatial planning, forest monitoring, land use mapping analysis, spatial modeling of habitat suitability and connectivity, sampling design, information system management, and capacity building. Her work has had over 1,600 citations to peer-reviewed publications including the Science for the extensive collaborations in ...Read More