Blue Natural Capital Grants Approval Committees

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People & Network

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Guiding impactful projects: BNC Grants Approval Committees

All project proposals submitted in response to a BNC Calls for proposals will initially be reviewed and have due diligence completed by IUCN and a minimum of two external experts. Then, they will be forwarded to a Grant Approval Committee to select the winning projects.

BNCFF Grants Approval Committee

Dorothée Herr

Ocean & Climate, International Processes & Sustainable Finance at GIZ

Lida Teneva

(former) Vice President, Oceans, Area-based Conservation at WWF

Hannah Wood

Director, Climate & Environment at the UBS Optimus Foundation

Eric Schauls

Senior Advisor, Government of Luxembourg, Ministry of Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development

Dave Hampton

Senior Resiliency + Climate Adaptation Planner, LimnoTech

Brenden Jongman

Nature-Based Solutions Program Lead, The World Bank

Irina Likhachova

Global Lead for Biodiversity Finance, Climate Business, International Finance Corporation

BCAF Grants Approval Committee

Mat Vanderklift

Senior research scientist at CSIRO and Director of the IORA Blue Carbon Hub

Catherine Lovelock

Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland

Dan Friess

Deputy Director of the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore

Torsten Thiele

Founder, Global Ocean Trust

Chenae Neilson

A/g Director Blue Carbon and International Partnerships, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Government of Australia

Angelique Pouponneau

Policy Adviser to the Chair, Alliance of Small Islands States

Steve Clark

A/g Director Blue Carbon and International Partnerships, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Government of Australia

Calls for Proposals

There are no open calls for proposals. Sign up for email alerts to be notified of the next call and receive updates on BNCFF and BCAF projects, lessons learned, and more, or email us at bluenaturalcapital@iucn.org.