Stewardship Council
The Stewardship Council consists of the founding partners and major funders of TNFD. The Council meets three times per year. During these meetings, the Co-Chairs and Executive Director of the TNFD Secretariat inform the Council of the TNFD’s progress on delivering the vision and mission of the TNFD.
The Council will ensure that appropriate financial accountability to funding partners is in line with funding agreement reporting requirements, and advice and support the TNFD Co-Chairs and Executive Director with outreach and engagement of additional potential funding partners.
Vice Chair
Andrew Mitchell
Global Canopy
Founder and Senior Advisor
Council members
Agence Française de Développement
Matthew Savile
Research Officer
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Jess Ayers
Director, Climate Change
Global Canopy
Niki Mardas
Executive Director
Government of Australia, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Arianna Cowling
Director, Financing Solutions for Nature
Government of the Netherlands, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Caroline van Leenders
Senior Process Manager, Sustainable Transitions
Government of Switzerland, Federal Office for the Environment and the State Secretariat for International Finance
Lucretia Landmann
Senior Policy Adviser, Environmental Finance, Federal Office for the Environment
Government of the UK, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Neha Dutt
Policy Lead – Greening Finance
Macdoch Foundation
Michelle Gortan
Chief Executive Officer
The Global Environment Facility
Avril Benchimol
Senior Finance Specialist
The Green Finance Institute
Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
United Nations Development Programme
Midori Paxton
Head, Ecosystems & Biodiversity
United Nations Environment Programme – Finance Initiative
Liesel van Ast
Membership & Regional Co-Ordination Manager
WWF
Margaret Kuhlow
Global Finance Practice Leader
