TRAFFIC's governance an introduction to our board of trustees

He was a member of KPMG’s Global Alternative Investments Leadership Team and a Director of the CAIA Association, the global leader in alternative investment education. Anthony is a senior adviser to various entities, including UN agencies, on innovative financing strategies, creating several securitisation and bond structures to manage risk and facilitate the release of economic and regulatory capital. He is a trustee of Becoming X, a director of the technology company Zero Gravity, and a founding board member of Literacy Is For Everyone.

Prior to joining Global Philanthropic, she led her own consulting company and was Director of Development for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), creating their first high-value fundraising programme and their first ethical gifts acceptance policy and procedure.  Earlier, she served as Director of Development at ARK and Head of Fundraising at the Cambridge University Development Office, where she led the fundraising team for the University’s historic 800^th Anniversary Campaign.  Pam founded and subsequently taught the MBA Fundraising course at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and is a guest lecturer on strategic fundraising for the MPhil Conservation Leadership course at the Cambridge Conservation Campus.

Wendy has worked at the intersection between science, policy and practice for most of her career, is passionate about strategic campaigning, and is a published biologist with a background of field-based conservation in three continents.

As a young activist, she served as the President of the Association of Indigenous Argentinian Youth, while connecting with the global Indigenous women’s movement as a member of the International Indigenous Women Biodiversity Network and focusing on the rights of Indigenous children.  From 2009 to 2018, she served as an Associate Programme Officer on Traditional Knowledge at the Convention on Biological Diversity.  She is currently a member of several Indigenous Peoples organizations and consults internationally on issues related to traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

With extensive field experience in Laos, Thailand, India and Indonesia with WCS and Panthera, he is passionate about conservation and using conservation science to better understand the effects of human activities on species, communities, and ecosystems and developing and implementing practical interdisciplinary approaches to managing and restoring biological diversity.

After working with the Diplomatic Secretariat of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, he worked in the UNEP Policy Planning Division and then built WWF-International’s Conservation Division’s China programme.  He spent fourteen years at IUCN as Director of Field Operations and later as Director of Policy and Partnerships before establishing the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Europe) which he directed until 2016.  He holds a BA from Tufts University and Postgraduate Diploma in Historical Studies from Cambridge University.

An Agronomist by training, he has held a number of senior international roles, including Chief of Staff at UNEP and Chief of Staff and Director of the Executive Office at UNDP, where he supported global development programmes across more than 170 countries. Earlier in his career, he served with the European Commission on development cooperation programmes in Africa and was Director General of WWF Italy for a decade.

He has a number of advisory roles in the private sector, is a trustee of Global Canopy and is on the advisory boards of several other national and international conservation and development NGOs.

From 2007-2018, he was the Director of HRH (the then) Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Unit, which helped facilitate consensus on how to resolve some of the key environmental challenges facing the world –including deforestation, sustaining the marine environment and ways to maintain ecosystem resilience while achieving development goals. Prior to that, he worked as an Adviser to the UK Government on Russia, Energy and Climate Change, and ran the World Bank’s forestry and biodiversity programmes in Russia and Central Asia.