The Integrity Council encompasses deep and varied expertise from across the voluntary carbon market ecosystem including world-leading scientific, financial, practitioner, NGO, policy, indigenous, local and other forms of knowledge.
Our Governing Board
The board consists of 22 Board Members with representation across all the key stakeholder groups including experts in carbon market technologies, sustainable finance, eNGOs, UNFCCC process expertise, regulatory affairs, the corporate sector, science and academia, local communities and indigenous people.
Annette L. Nazareth
Chair
Giulia Carbone
Sonja Gibbs
Doris Honold
Michael Hugman
Ma Jun
Mark Kenber
Farrukh Khan
Kelley Kizzier
Dee Lawrence
Kavita Prakash-Mani
Agustin Silvani
Francisco Souza
Rod Taylor
Carl Wesselink
Elected market representatives
Chosen via vote by the 250+ organizations that participated in the Member Consultation Group for the Taskforce for Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Market, acting in their personal capacity.
David Antonioli
Chris Leeds
Jeff Swartz
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
We have three Board seats reserved for members from traditionally underrepresented stakeholder communities. We are in the process of electing Board members that bring the necessary diversity of knowledge and experience to represent the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities globally.
Francisco Souza
Our Expert Panel
Our Expert Panel, which guides the governing body on technical issues, is made up of leading carbon market experts with long-standing experience in the environmental and social integrity of carbon markets.
Pedro Martins Barata, Co-Chair
Senior Director at EDF and Partner at Get2c
Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Co-Chair
Director, Center for Public Policy Development – ESPOL Polytechnic University
Lambert Schneider, Co-Chair
Research Coordinator, International Climate Policy, Öko-Institute
Derik Broekhoff
Stockholm Environment Institute
Sudhir Sharma
Global Environment Facility – United Nations Environment Programme
Ousmane Fall Sarr
West African Alliance on Carbon Markets
Jürg Füssler
INFRAS
Gabriel Labbate
United Nations Environment Programme
Donna Lee
Calyx Global
Jessica Wade-Murphy
Atmosphere Alternative
Felipe de Leon Denegri
Independent Advisor
Gilles Dufrasne
Carbon Market Watch
Subject Matter Experts
The Expert Panel members are supported by 11 subject matter experts who bring particular insight on specific aspects of how to evaluate carbon crediting programs and classes of carbon credits.
Distinguished Advisory Group
Our Distinguished Advisory Group includes around 30 world-renowned leaders from across the voluntary carbon market value chain who provide strategic insight and advice to the Board.
Tim Adams
President and CEO, IIF
Sandy Boss
BlackRock
Peter Boyd
Yale School of the Environment
Mark Carney
UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance
Jon Creyts
Rocky Mountain Institute
Cynthia Cummis
WRI, SBTi
Amelia DeLuca
Delta Air Lines
Paula DiPerna
Carbon Disclosure Project
Clara Furse
London Stock Exchange and HSBC
Jonah Goldman
Breakthrough Energy
Blas L. Pérez Henríquez
Stanford University
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad
Michael Jenkins
Forest Trends
Tuntiak Katan
General Coordinator of the Alliance of Territorial Communities
Lian Pin Koh
National University of Singapore & Singapore Parliament
John Kilani
Al-Attiyah Foundation
Leonardo Lacerda
The Nature Conservancy
Joaquim Levy
Former Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer
Catherine McGuinness
City of London
Renée González Montagut
Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza
Alberto G. Musalem
Evince Asset Management
Dilhan Pillay Sangrasegara
Temasek
Laurent Segalen
Megawatt-X
Emilio Sempris
Former Minister of Environment
Nicholas Stern
Chair of the Grantham Research Institute, LSE
Vera Songwe
UN Economic Commission for Africa
Adair Turner
Energy Transitions Commission
Bill Winters
Group CEO Standard Chartered
Ailun Yang
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Our Executive Secretariat
The Integrity Council is supported by a Secretariat made up of four leading climate, finance, and standards NGOs: the Green Finance Institute, the British Standards Institution (BSI), the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).
Our Founding Sponsors
