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 the Advisory Board for TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations CEO Water Mandate and an advisor on the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.

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
Senior Director
Natalie Nicholles
Senior Director
Natalie is responsible for building impactful funding partnerships. Previously Natalie worked as Global Director at the RSA (Royal Society for Arts) where she built a global infrastructure of affiliates and opened up the RSA’s research and 29,000+ Fellowship to the world.
Natalie 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 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 helping institutions put people and the planet at the heart of decision-making to achieve transformative change.

Mary Dawson
Senior Director
Mary Dawson
Senior Director
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.

Marta Santamaria
Senior Director
Marta Santamaria
Senior Director
Marta has 15 years of experience promoting environmental economics and natural capital valuation, both in the public and the private sectors. Prior to her appointment at the Coalition, Marta worked as Scientific Project Officer for the European Commission’s Institute for Energy and Transport.
In the past, she has worked for PwC, the Spanish National Research Centre of Energy, Environment and Technology, Red Electrica de España and the Universidad de Alcalá. In 2012, Marta was awarded a PhD in Global Change and Sustainable Development from Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.

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

Joseph Harris-Confino
Director
Joseph Harris-Confino
Director
Joseph leads on the Coalition’s communications, outreach and messaging.
Previously, Joseph has worked for Sürdürülebilirlik Akademisi in Turkey, The B Team and Futerra in New York, and Guardian Sustainable Business & Salterbaxter MSLGROUP in London.
Joseph has also spent time with AMREF in Uganda studying integrated development projects in the Ugandan village of Katine, and with Fundación Gaia Amazonas in the Colombian Amazon Basin, whose main aim is to gain legal rights for the indigenous communities in the area and protect the forest from illegal logging and mining.

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.

Robyn Seetal
Advisor
Robyn Seetal
Advisor
Robyn Seetal is a CPA, CA, an award-winning sustainability leader and the Founder of IkTaar Sustainability. Robyn combines her enterprise risk management skill set, accounting background, and sustainability expertise to accelerate our transition to a regenerative economy. She lends her expertise to the International Financial Reporting Standards and Carbon Disclosure Standards Board as a member of their international technical working group and develops training and guidance for boards and executives on environmental and social topics.
Robyn’s passion for building compassionate and resilient communities led her to become a founding board member of Local Investing YYC; an impact investment cooperative that has raised and invested $1.3M in eight locally owned and socially conscious businesses to date.
She serves on the Advisory Council for the World Economic Forum’s 1t.org and Trees for Jane initiative that aim to plant, restore, and protect a trillion trees by 2030. In 2020, Robyn became a founding board member of the Canadian chapter of the Capitals Coalition and currently serves on the inaugural board of the Nature Foundation in Canada.
Robyn was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper Community in 2016 and served as the inaugural Co-Chair of Climate and Environment Steering Committee until 2021. In 2017, Robyn was recognized as Corporate Knights top 30 under 30 among sustainability professionals across Canada and was a recipient of the 2020 Young Women in Energy award.
Robyn is a CPA, CA, and holds a BComm. in Energy Management. Robyn is a guest lecturer at the University of Calgary and frequently shares her passions by speaking and writing on topics including “Re-imagining Capitalism”, “Natural Capital”, “Sustainability Reporting”, and “Eco-centric Leadership.”

Tim Polaszek
Senior Manager
Tim Polaszek
Senior Manager
Tim is the Collaboration Manager 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).

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.

Justine Saunders
Senior Manager
Justine Saunders
Senior Manager
Justine Saunders is an environmental scientist with twenty-plus years of experience in policy analysis working with governments, organisations and academic research institutions across New Zealand, Europe and Southeast Asia. Her work has involved the application of ecosystem service frameworks to policy development to facilitate embedding the principles of ecosystem-based management and sustainable development in decision-making.
She was most recently the project coordinator for the first natural capital assessment for Singapore. She has a BSc in Botany and an MSc in Environmental and Marine Sciences from Auckland University.

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 works within the Coalition’s TEEBAgriFood project, developing guidance for businesses in the food sector and fostering new collaborations and partnerships in this 3 year EU funded project. She has six years of experience promoting the transition of food systems, conciliating agricultural production, human well-being and environmental conservation.
Prior to her appointment at the Coalition, Louise worked for the Water Public Agency Adasa in Brazil, managing rural projects with payment for ecosystem services and organizing the World Water Forum. As a junior consultant for IUCN and the World Agroforestry Center, she also has a background in research, social innovation and engagement of stakeholders for more sustainable landscapes.

Nagwa Ahmed
Manager
Nagwa Ahmed
Manager
Nagwa provides support to the activities of the Coalition. She has previously worked for the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman as well as the Biochemical Society.

David Thomas
Manager
David Thomas
Manager
David leads on communication for Coalition projects and supports media outreach, Coalition publications, advocacy efforts and Capitals Hubs worldwide.
Previously, David has worked for Social Value UK and Social Value International, leading on global communications, international events and policy change campaigns, and for the Jack Petchey Foundation in London.
David works as a creative copywriter, photographer and arts and culture journalist focusing on emerging musicians, the UK live music scene and east-Asian media. David has championed platforms to give online creators a voice and provide areas for global collaboration in the online space.
David holds an LLB in Law with Accounting and Finance.

Aamirah Patel
Manager
Aamirah Patel
Manager
Aamirah works in the Collaboration Function at the Coalition, managing the online community.
Previously Aamirah has worked for TRT World Citizen in Turkey, and in campaigns for RESULTS UK, and International Service, along with volunteering for environmental charities in London. She also co-founded a community led platform for Muslim women in London fostering mentorship and development.
She has also spent time understanding communities through capacity building on the ground with Restless Development in South Africa as well as working in Kenya. She is passionate about working towards a greener planet through innovative campaigns and projects which are truly collaborative.

Lenka Moore
Manager
Lenka Moore
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.

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.

Stephany Breytenbach
Executive Assistant
Stephany Breytenbach
Executive Assistant
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.

Lisa Heine
Officer
Lisa Heine
Officer
Lisa joined the Capital Coalition’s TEEBAgriFood project in 2022 as Engagement Officer. She is passionate about fostering collaboration across different cultures to build societal transformation. Lisa is supporting the coalition in building partnerships and delivering training on the integration of natural, social and human capital into business-decision making.
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, Lisa worked for IDH-The Sustainable Trade Initiative, in which she supported a project on smallholder farmer inclusion in global agrofood 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).

Hannah Collier
Officer
Hannah Collier
Officer
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.

Fae Rinaldo
Officer
Fae Rinaldo
Officer

Jacob Leigh
Officer
Jacob Leigh
Officer
Jacob is a sustainability consultant at PwC, he has specific experience working with asset management clients on topics ranging from impact investing and climate risk. Jacob has supported private equity clients build impact investment frameworks under SFDR Article 9 requirements and he has experience implementing the TCFD framework and undertaking portfolio-level climate risk assessments.
Jacob has a background in Economics, and he obtained a BSc in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK.

Tanara Sahgal
Assistant
Tanara Sahgal
Assistant
Tanara works as the education assistant at Capitals Coalition, responsible for supporting the creation of a Coursera course on human and social capital.
With a background in marketing and experience working within the education sector, Tanara strives to bring in knowledge of business and communications to make transformational change. Growing with the foundation, Tanara is eager to take concrete steps in educating businesses about ethical decision making using the capitals approach.
Tanara has a BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences and an MSc in Marketing Management. She is currently based in London, pursuing an MA in Brands, Communication and Culture.
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