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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.
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DVNE
In addition, I am the Co-Founder and 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.
CDRjobs
Co-founder of CDRjobs, the platform for every career opportunity in carbon dioxide removal (CDR), providing comprehensive industry data and insights, to help inform policy advocates, analysts, and talent managers on their strategy and empowering jobseekers to make informed decisions about their CDR career.
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USBC
I am a founding Director of the US Biochar Coalition, 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.
EWA
Co-founder of the Enhanced Rock Weathering Alliance, which advocates for the scale-up of the Enhanced Weathering industry as one of the most promising CDR solutions we have.
American University
As a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at the American University, I am committed to building equitable carbon removal through by contributing to the production of action-oriented research, shaping governance through open dialogues, and contributing to best practices to educate experts and non-experts alike.
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