Our team
Day-to-day management of all initiatives
Melissa Abderrahim
Melissa Abderrahim is supporting the day-to-day activities of IUCN’s work on BNC, including project evaluation, partnership building and outreach efforts.
Clément Chazot
Clément Chazot is supporting the day-to-day activities of IUCN’s work on BNC. He supports project evaluations, partnership building and outreach efforts.
Joao Sousa
Joao Sousa, IUCN Senior Programme Officer, manages IUCN’s involvement in Blue Natural Capital partnerships, projects and activities.
Coastal NbS and Green-Gray Infrastructure focus
Rod Braun
Rod is the Director of Green-Gray Infrastructure/Nature-based Solutions at Conservation International and works with the BNCFF to implement financing strategies and field examples of green-gray infrastructure approaches.
Miguel Cifuentes-Jara
Miguel Cifuentes-Jara is the Senior Director for Blue Climate at Conservation International. He is a global change ecologist working on developing a blue carbon model for climate action and sustainable coastal development since early 2010s.
Communications
Anthony Hobson
A communications specialist, Anthony Hobson works to bring BNCFF and BCAF work to the attention of governments, financiers, conservation organisations and business but also to raise awareness among project developers in nations we work with.
Technical and strategic advisors
Nathalie Roth
Nathalie Roth is a Senior Advisor for environmental and international carbon markets and climate finance, and supports evaluations around the financial structuring of the projects.
Moritz von Unger
Moritz von Unger is a Senior Advisor who supports projects with legal and technical guidance related to coastal nature-based interventions, with a focus in carbon related questions.
Torsten Thiele
Torsten Thiele is a Senior Advisor on project structuring and blue financing. He brings traditional finance to the space of Nature-based Solutions in the blue environment.