.png)
background
I’m a climate advocate, leveraging my skills and experiences to support policymakers in making better decisions for our planet.
I am currently the Senior Policy Advisor of Carbonfuture, the world's leading provider of high-integrity, durable carbon removal. In this role, I focus on promoting policies to help scale durable carbon removal in Europe, the United States, and beyond.
I previously spent a decade as a tech entrepreneur, including my role as Chief Operating Officer at Simprints, the world’s only nonprofit biometrics company. I also advised Angela Merkel’s Chancellery and worked with governments globally through the World Bank.
I’m an economist with a BA from UCL, an MPhil from Cambridge University, and an ExecEd from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
.png)
DVNE
I am the Chair of the Board of the DVNE, the multi-stakeholder, industry-led platform to facilitate collaboration and the development of policies conducive to the formation and scale-up of an equitable, world-class carbon dioxide removal industry in Germany to realise net-zero by 2045 and net-negative thereafter.
.jpeg)
EBI
I lead the policy working group at the European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI), a non-profit organization in order to promote and support the European biochar industry and its general, non-material, and economic interests with the aim of developing the European biochar industry into an important industry sector and making a significant contribution to fight climate change.
.png)
USBC
I am a founding Director of the US Biochar Coalition (USBC), an industry trade association that unifies the voice of biochar, agriculture, forestry, climate tech, and carbon removal industry stakeholders in advocacy for and development of market, policy, and economic conditions to catalyze biochar industry growth.
.png)