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
Angela Churie
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
Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Co-Chair
Lambert Schneider, Co-Chair
Derik Broekhoff
Sudhir Sharma
Ousmane Fall Sarr
Jürg Füssler
Gabriel Labbate
Donna Lee
Jessica Wade-Murphy
Felipe de Leon Denegri
Gilles Dufrasne
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
Sandy Boss
Peter Boyd
Mark Carney
Jon Creyts
Cynthia Cummis
Amelia DeLuca
Paula DiPerna
Clara Furse
Jonah Goldman
Blas L. Pérez Henríquez
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Michael Jenkins
Tuntiak Katan
Lian Pin Koh
John Kilani
Leonardo Lacerda
Joaquim Levy
Catherine McGuinness
Renée González Montagut
Alberto G. Musalem
Dilhan Pillay Sangrasegara
Laurent Segalen
Emilio Sempris
Nicholas Stern
Vera Songwe
Adair Turner
Bill Winters
Ailun Yang
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
