Who We Are

CHAIRPERSON

Jean-Michel Severino

DONOR COUNCIL MEMBERS

Laurence Breton-Moyet
Executive Director, Operations
L’Agence Française de Développement

Paula Caballero
Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice
The World Bank

Daniel Calleja Crespo
Director General for Environment European Commission

Masaaki Iizuka
Director of Development Issues
Ministry of Finance–International Bureau
Government of Japan

Naoko Ishii
Chairperson and CEO
The Global Environment Facility

Roberto Ridolfi
Director, Sustainable Growth
Directorate General for Development and Cooperation–EuropeAid
European Commission

Jennifer Morris
Chief Operating Officer
Conservation International

Jørgen Thomsen
Director, Climate Solutions
Program on behalf of the President
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

* Donor Council list as of June 2016

Guillaume Chiron
Chef de Projet Agriculture, Développement Rural, Biodiversité
Département Développement Durable
L’Agence Française de Développement

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude
Directorate General for Development and Cooperation–EuropeAid (DEVCO)
European Commission

Chris Holtz
Director, Conservation and Sustainable Development
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Andrea Kutter
Senior Operations Officer, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice
The World Bank

Yves Pinsonneault
Vice President, Field Program Management
Conservation International

Anne-Theo Seinen
Administrator, Biodiversity
Directorate General for Environment
European Commission

Sachin Shahria
Environmental Specialist
The World Bank

Akiko Tabata
Assistant Director, Global Biodiversity Strategy Office
Nature Conservation Bureau
Ministry of the Environment
Government of Japan

Yoko Watanabe
Program Manager, Senior Biodiversity Specialist
The Global Environment Facility

* Working Group list as of June 2016

Olivier Langrand
Executive Director

Pierre Carret
Grant Director

Bradford Castro
Finance Manager

Inês Castro
Senior Program Coordinator

Antonia Cermak-Terzian
Grant Manager

Mandy DeVine
Communications Manager

Maren Hozempa
Web Manager

Skylar Hurwitz
Grant Manager

Laura Johnston
Grant Manager

Nina Marshall
Senior Director, Monitoring, Evaluation and Outreach

Kevin McNulty
Senior Director, Finance and Operations

Megan Oliver
Director, Grants Management Unit

Peggy Poncelet
Grant Director

Daniel Rothberg
Grant Director

Julie Shaw
Director, Communications

Jack Tordoff
Managing Director

Nicole Zach
Finance Coordinator

Michele Zador
Grant Director

* As of end of the 2015 calendar year

Caribbean Islands

Anna Hadeed
Manager, CEPF RIT
Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI)
Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies

East Melanesian Islands

Helen Pippard
Manager, CEPF RIT
IUCN Oceania
Suva, Fiji

Eastern Afromontane

Maaike Manten
Manager, CEPF RIT
BirdLife International
Nairobi, Kenya

Indo-Burma

James Tallant
Manager, CEPF RIT
IUCN Asia Regional Office
Bangkok, Thailand

Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands

Ravaka Ranaivoson
RIT Manager
Fondation Tany Meva
Antananarivo, Madagascar

Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany

Roelie Kloppers
Project Leader, CEPF RIT
Wildlands Conservation Trust
KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa

Mediterranean Basin

Liz Smith
Manager, CEPF RIT
BirdLife International
Cambridge, England, UK

Wallacea

Adi Widyanto
Manager, CEPF RIT
Burung Indonesia
West Java, Indonesia

Western Ghats

Bhaskar Acharya
Project Coordinator, CEPF RIT
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, India

* As of end of the 2015 calendar year