The Coalition Team
The Coalition team provide an overview of work within the capitals community, highlight connections, engage in outreach and facilitate expert advice. They act as matchmakers to ensure that different parts of the system are connected to one another, and that leading organizations and experts are working collaboratively to achieve our shared ambition.
Mark Gough
CEO
Mark Gough
CEO
Previously, Mark led the Natural Capital Coalition and was on the board of the Social and Human Capital Coalition. He championed and delivered the bringing together of these two communities, creating a unified, systemic, collaborative approach.
Mark has worked extensively in the private sector, leading programs and strategy for The Crown Estate and Reed Elsevier (now RELX), as well as advising many more.
Among other board and advisory positions, Mark is on Steering Committee for the Global Commons Alliance and the Board for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
Martin Lok
Executive Director
Martin Lok
Executive Director
With more than 25 years of experience as policy maker for the Netherland’s government, Martin has worked in several policy domains, including environmental policy, international nature policy and green growth policy.
He is co-author of several national policy documents and has led public-private collaborative actions on natural capital in the Netherlands from 2014. In 2018 Martin initiated and led the global Government Dialogue on Natural Capital.
Natalie Nicholles
Executive Director
Natalie Nicholles
Executive Director
Natalie leads on system change, innovation and building impactful partnerships for the Coalition. She oversees fundraising, engagement and education, as well as communications.
Previously the Global Director at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) , Natalie built a global infrastructure of affiliates and opened up the RSA’s research and 29,000+ Fellowship to the world.
She began her career in the private sector working for FTSE 100 company Wolseley Plc in Europe and then built a highly successful socio-economic impact consultancy within think tank the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in the UK and internationally, working with over 100 charities, social enterprises and governments.
Natalie has published, chaired and spoken publicly on topics ranging from the value of the social, economic and environmental impact of community-based adaptation to climate change, to the importance of diverting women from the criminal justice system, to the trends in the future of work and artificial intelligence and the tyranny of oil. She is passionate about organizations putting people and the planet at the heart of decision-making to deliver an economy that works for all.
Mary Dawson
Chief of Staff & Operations
Mary Dawson
Chief of Staff & Operations
Mary has over 20 years’ experience of working with children and young people’s charities in the areas of disability, health and education.
With a background in third sector project management, service development and fundraising her roles have included Director of Development for National Deaf Children’s Society and Chief Executive of Springboard for Children. She holds an MA in English Literature and an MSc in International Development.
Rosimeiry Portela
Senior Director
Rosimeiry Portela
Senior Director
Rosimeiry Portela is a leader in environmental-economic accounting and its applications for decision-making and policy, having worked for many years as institutional lead of such efforts at Conservation International (CI).
She is part of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) Ecosystem Accounting (EA) Technical Committee, the working group that oversaw the SEEA EA revision process. She also served as technical lead of the Natural Capital Protocol, the first set of standardized approaches for incorporation of biodiversity and ecosystem services into business practices and decision-making.
Dr. Portela is an internationally recognised expert, and advisor to various international efforts. She is an experienced public speaker, having lectured extensively, including as a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University (ASU).
Liv Watson
Senior Advisor
Liv Watson
Senior Advisor
As the co-founder of XBRL and the XBRL International consortium, Liv works globally with leading market regulators, accounting associations, and institutions. She has held several speaking engagements on financial and business reporting standards, their benefits, potential applications, and adoption in corporate governance and social responsibility reporting.
Liv has also held several leadership positions related to XBRL, including as a member of the IFRS XBRL Advisory Committee, the XBRL International Steering Committee, and the XBRL Standing Committee.
Liv has authored one of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)’s most successful professional courses, “Accounting System Technology for the 21st Century”, and published numerous articles for international publications and journals. She is an editorial board member of the “International Journal of Disclosure and Governance”, as well as the co- and contributing author of several books, including XBRL for Dummies, the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, and Effective Auditing for Corporations.
For over 10 years, Liv was the Senior Director of Strategic Customer Initiatives at Workiva Inc., which serves over 70% of fortune 500 companies and more than 200 EU companies with their statutory reporting requirements.
Liv is currently on secondment to the Capitals Coalition as Senior Advisor and Digitization Lead. She is also the Lead for the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group’s (EFRAG) Project Task Force on Corporate Standards Reporting Directive’s (PTF-CSRD) Formats Working Group, responsible for developing digital standards for the EU’s sustainability standards.
Liv is a long-standing member of the IMA, and is currently a member of their Sustainable Business Management – Global Task Force
Hannah Brooke
Director
Hannah Brooke
Director
Prior to this position, Hannah was part of the team which lead on the development of the Natural Capital Protocol at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Most recently, Hannah lead the technical development of the Natural Capital Protocol Toolkit. She has also worked as a sustainability reporting analyst.
Martine van Weelden
Director
Martine van Weelden
Director
Martine is a Director at the Coalition, responsible for the successful application of capitals thinking in the business sector within the scope of the TEEBAgriFood project. She has over 10 years of experience in the field of sustainability, ecosystem services and natural capital.
Prior to her appointment at the Capitals Coalition, Martine worked for the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP). She chairs the ESP Sectoral Working Group ES in Business.
Her background is in cultural anthropology and she mastered in organisational anthropology in 2006, linking sustainable practices with culture. She is passionate about building partnerships with people from various backgrounds to support societal transformation that includes natural, social and human capital.
Tim Polaszek
Director
Tim Polaszek
Director
Tim is the Collaboration Director at the Coalition, helping to draw on the expertise and experience of the Coalition organizations to support a capitals approach and holistic decision-making. Previously, he has worked as a consultant identifying, measuring and valuing ecosystem services across the Caribbean, West Africa, and Oceania. Tim has also worked in the EU Emissions Trading System, financing emissions reductions projects globally.
Tim has a BSc in Biology (University of Sheffield), an MSc in Environment and Resource Management (VU University, Amsterdam), and an Investment Advice Diploma (CISI, London).
Tom McKenna
Senior Manager
Tom McKenna
Senior Manager
Tom is a senior manager at the Capitals Coalition focussing on the technical side of capitals and biodiversity accounting and valuation. Tom is an ecological economist and is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Previously, Tom worked as an economist at Scottish non-departmental government body NatureScot and helped to develop the natural capital approach at local and national levels, including the world’s only non-monetary national natural capital indicator.
He is passionate about ensuring that all types of value are included in decision-making processes in order to create outcomes that are beneficial to business, society and most importantly the planet and that people’s ability to do so is open and accessible. Tom believes that economics can be a force for good to create solutions that benefit society and nature.
Louise Amand
Senior Manager
Louise Amand
Senior Manager
Louise leads the education program at the Coalition, developing online courses and capacity-building opportunities to equip individuals and institutions with the knowledge and skills needed to transform our economy.
She also works with food system transformation, developing guidance, accelerating collaborations, and accompanying businesses to make a positive impact as part of the TEEBAgriFood project.
She has 8 years of experience promoting socio-ecological transition by conciliating production, human well-being, and environmental regeneration. Previously, she was a consultant in Latin America for IUCN, the World Agroforestry Center, and Public agencies to organize the World Water Forum, structure payment for ecosystem services projects, and foster social innovation for sustainable landscapes.
Adanna Shallowe
Senior Manager
Adanna Shallowe
Senior Manager
Adanna is a curious generalist, international affairs analyst, a skilled network weaver and facilitator. She is the Events and Relationships Lead at Capitals Coalition.
Previously as the Global Insights & Practice Lead at the Royal Society of Arts, she was responsible for harnessing global thought leadership on key research themes such as future of work, inclusive growth and innovation, undertaking horizon scanning on emerging practice and international policy development and spotting global engagement opportunities to shape policy and cultivating strategic engagements with global partners.
In the policy arena, Adanna represented the United Kingdom within the global Technical Vocational Education and Training community as part of the WorldSkills movement and was the project lead for an international youth skills development programme. She held research positions on development initiatives for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago as part of its inaugural national foresight exercise and for the UNDP Caribbean Sub Regional Resource Facility on their key practice areas on democratic governance, poverty reduction, disaster resilience and HIV/AIDS education and prevention.
As a foresight practitioner, Adanna co-authored a research report entitled – Stitch in Time – Realising the value of futures & foresight in policymaking and a Rough Guide – how to be a public entrepreneur in practice. She is passionate about empowering others to co-create their own alternative futures and supported communities and networks in deploying foresight methods to uncover innovative solutions to challenges.
Adanna is also part of the Diaspora Futures Collective, a community of futurists, designers and creatives committed to surfacing issues of power and equity within the futures field.
Lenka Moore
Senior Manager
Lenka Moore
Senior Manager
Lenka has over 20 years experience mainly in the corporate world but also in the NGO and academic worlds. She is experienced in creative vision, strategic thinking, systemic change, advocacy as well as global supply chains, continuous improvement, program management and implementation.
Lenka is interested in co-creating a new, regenerative story & vision for the world which is rooted in the custodianship of the Earth, diverse kinship and interconnectedness.
She is currently exploring regenerative finance to support our change to a world where nature and society thrive and is involved with a number of initiatives and organisations that help with the transition.
Ruth Cooke
Senior Manager
Ruth Cooke
Senior Manager
Ruth has the role of Operations Manager within the Coalition’s operations function.
Ruth champions good practice through operational processes such as IT, grant management, finance, impact assessment and reporting.
Ruth previously worked in the operations manager role for a UK charity organisation, supporting the well-being and mental health of refugees, asylum seekers and others displaced by conflict.
Doug MacNair
Senior Manager
Doug MacNair
Senior Manager
Doug MacNair, Ph.D. is a Technical Director at ERM, and is seconded to the Coalition. He has 30 years of experience in the field of economics and decision sciences. Dr. MacNair specializes in non-market valuation, benefit-cost analysis, and in developing decision support tools for helping companies include environmental, financial, and social issues in strategic decision-making. The topics have included climate change, water management, air quality, outdoor recreation, open space and managed landscapes, capital expenditures, health and safety risks, and environmental liabilities. Dr. MacNair also has extensive experience in survey design and analysis and in facilitating workshops/focus groups for public stakeholders and agency and corporate staff.
Dr. MacNair is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University. His research has been published in Land Economics, Marine Resource Economics, and Forest Economics. Prior to focusing on environmental economics, Dr. MacNair worked for 10 years in the securities industry. He was Associate Director of Economic Research for NASDAQ, the over-the-counter stock market.
Kate Swindells
Manager
Kate Swindells
Manager
Kate works in the Communication Function at the Coalition, leading on digital advocacy communications and social media to promote the capitals approach and collaboration work of the Coalition.
Kate previously worked at WWF International for the New Deal for Nature & People initiative, supporting and coordinating a wide range of projects, including digital advocacy communications and high-level events, focused on raising nature up the global agenda.
Kate is passionate about the natural world and comes from a conservation background, having previously worked for the Natural History Museum in London as a Research Officer for the UK Whale & Dolphin Strandings Programme. Kate holds an MSc in Global Wildlife Conservation and a BSc in Marine Biology.
Stephanie Afi Nyavor
Manager
Stephanie Afi Nyavor
Manager
Stephanie is the Executive Office Manager at the Coalition.
Lisa Heine
Manager
Lisa Heine
Manager
Lisa joined the Capital Coalition in 2022 as Engagement Officer for the TEEBAgriFood project. She is passionate about fostering collaboration across different cultures to build societal transformation. Lisa has been supporting the coalition in building partnerships and delivering training on the integration of natural, social and human capital into business-decision making. She has since moved to project manager for the Coalition’s EU projects.
Lisa began her career with internships at WWF Germany in the environmental education and public relations department, and at the GIZ supporting stakeholder management for the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles. Before joining the Capital’s Coalition, she worked for IDH-The Sustainable Trade Initiative, in which she supported a project on smallholder farmer inclusion in global Agrifood value chains.
Lisa has a B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences (Maastricht University, Universidad de Buenos Aires) and a MSc in Sustainable Development/Earth System Governance (Utrecht University).
Stephany Breytenbach
Manager
Stephany Breytenbach
Manager
Stephany brings a unique perspective to the Capitals Coalition team as an executive assistant. She recently gained an MSc in Conflict Studies (London School of Economics and Political Science) and has a BA in Archaeology, BSc (Hons) Physical Anthropology, and an MSc in Anatomy.
Previously, Stephany worked as a forensic archaeologist and anthropologist and was involved in post-conflict repatriation missions in Georgia and Abkhazia. In South Africa, she managed grave relocation projects on mines and other development. This work raised her passion for ending cycles of systemic violence and now hopes to use her diverse background to advocate for a capitals approach to decision-making.
Hannah Collier
Manager
Hannah Collier
Manager
Hannah works in the Collaboration Function at the Coalition. She will support in enabling and tracking engagement on the global capitals community and will support new organizations in the Capitals Coalition.
Hannah’s background is in UK-based, public sector planning policy. She previously worked at the South Downs National Park Authority, with policy expertise in tourism, equestrian and travellers. Focusing on digital engagement and consultation for Area Action Plans and the Strategic Local Plan. She supported policy planning in a designated landscape environment, with a focus on biodiversity net gain and ecosystem services.
Hannah is particularly passionate about the climate crisis and making the barrier to engagement as low as possible and making information accessible to all interested parties in new ways. She has an MSc in Spatial Planning and Development and a BSc in Environmental Geography.
Trudi Adams
Officer
Trudi Adams
Officer
Claire Crowther
Officer
Claire Crowther
Officer
Claire loves working behind the scenes of places that do great things. Coming from a background in social housing and harm reduction for Indigenous communities in Australia and Canada, Claire now supports the Capitals Coalition team as Operations Officer, based in Amsterdam. From booking travel, to coordinating events and troubleshooting IT, Claire works with the Coalition team to ensure operations are running smoothly.
Judit Planas
Officer
Judit Planas
Officer
Judit joined Capitals Coalition as a Project Officer to support the delivery of a number of groundbreaking European Commission (EU Horizon) funded projects. She has a background in project management and administration within the environmental and sustainable development sectors, with experience in collaborating with cross-cultural teams in non-profit and private settings.
Judit holds a BSc in Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and an MSc in Sustainable Development from Utrecht University, with a focus on Environmental Change and Ecosystems.
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Each year 40 leading organizations are invited to join the Coalition’s Advisory Panel.
The Advisory Panel provides input and guidance that feeds into the Coalition’s strategic development, lead and advocate for a capitals approach in their sectors, and develop and lead collaborative projects on behalf of the Coalition.
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Coalition Board members have demonstrated experience and insight into the challenges and opportunities connected to delivering our ambition
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