Paul is the co-founder and international champion of ENVestor.

He is the Founder and Lead of the Landscape Finance Lab.

A specialist in the fields of sustainability, climate change, land use and biodiversity, he set up the Lab, initially through WWF, to support a global community innovating on landscape solutions.

During an extensive career with WWF, Paul has catalysed results including the first provincial scale forest and climate (REDD+) program in Africa, Europe's longest river protected area and the largest rainforest reserve in the Pacific.

Paul holds a Masters Degree with merit in Anthropology / Development Studies from Sydney University and a Diploma in Management from IMD Business School in Switzerland.

He co-authored the Little Sustainable Landscape Book and is co-initiator of Meridia (www.meridia.land), a mobile app to provide affordable land tenure to rural communities.

Paul is or has been an advisor to the Climate Bonds Initiative, Gold Standard, World Economic Forum, Australian Futures Project and Forest Stewardship Council among others.