Facilitation
Facilitation and speaking
I convene and facilitate round tables, working groups and panels on forests, nature and carbon markets, in rooms where governments, companies, scientists and civil society do not start from the same place.
I have been in these rooms as a scientist, as UN staff, as a country delegate and as an independent adviser. I have also worked in the field, so I know the subject in practice and not only in theory. That helps me tell a technical disagreement from a political one, and write up a discussion in a way each side recognises.
A room that reaches something usable: everyone heard, the disagreements named, and a summary people can act on.
I facilitate and speak in English, French, Italian and Dutch.
For
- Secretariats and coalitions
- Funders and foundations
- Companies and industry groups running multi-stakeholder discussions
Formats
- Round tables and working groups
- Panels, as moderator or speaker
- Validation workshops with government and civil society
- Opening remarks and keynotes
In practice
Rooms I have facilitated, moderated and spoken in
- 2026Round table on carbon credit durability, Climate Week NYC
- 2026Bridging the Nature-Tech Divide, London Climate Action Week
- 2024Greening technologies: unlocking opportunities in combating desertification in arid countries, UNCCD COP16, Riyadh
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018High-level panel on forests in NDCs, 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, Yogyakarta
- 2012National consensus on the drivers of deforestation, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2009 to 2011UNFCCC REDD+ negotiations