Our Staff

Office of the CEO

M Sanjayan
Chief Executive Officer

Elise Larkin
Chief of Staff

Kelly Thalman
Vice President, Strategic Engagements

Office of the COO

Julius Court
Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer Probst
Vice President, Global Operations Strategy and Policies

Strategy

Patricia Zurita
Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice-President of Global Programs

Jos Williams
Vice President, Finance and Operations

Daniela Raik, Ph.D. 
Executive Vice President

Kelvin Alie
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Delivery and Field Partnerships

Kavita Chambery 
Vice President, Project Delivery and Monitoring

Jessica Leas 
Vice President, Design

Americas Field Division

Rachel Biderman
Senior Vice President, Americas

Lisa Famolare
Deputy Officer & Vice President Nature for Climate

Carmen Delgadillo
Vice President, Operations

Marco Quesada
Vice President, Oceans, Americas Field Division

Fabio Arjona 
Vice President, Conservation International-Colombia

Luis Suarez 
Vice President, Conservation International-Ecuador

Scott Henderson
Managing Director, Galapagos Program

Luis Espinel 
Vice President, Conservation International-Peru

Mauricio Bianco 
Vice President, Conservation International-Brazil

Eduardo Forno 
Executive Director, Conservation International-Bolivia

Curtis Bernard 
Executive Director, Conservation International-Guyana

Ana Gloria Guzman Mora
Executive Director, Conservation International-Costa Rica

Leticia Gutiérrez Lorandi
Vice President, Conservation International-Mexico

Gina Griffith
Executive Director, Conservation International-Suriname

Africa Field Division

Seif Hamisi
Managing Director, East Africa

Valentine Ebua
Managing Director, West & Central Africa

Julia Levin
Vice President, Conservation International-South Africa

Ruud Jansen
Country Director, Conservation International-Botswana

Bruno Rajaspera
Country Director, Conservation International-Madagascar

Asia-Pacific Field Division

Richard Jeo, Ph.D. 
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific

Meizani Irmadhiany
Senior Vice President & Executive Chair of Konservasi Indonesia

Robert Baigrie
Vice President, Climate Finance

Debby Ferdiany
Vice President, Operations, Asia-Pacific Field Division

Jan Yoshioka
Vice President, Sustainable Finance, Asia-Pacific

Ketut Putra
Asia Transboundary Oceans Senior Advisor

Mark Erdmann
Vice-President, Aotearoa

Susana Waqainabete-Tuisese 
Senior Director, Pacific Region

Amelia Juhl
Country Director, Japan

Xiaohai Liu 
Executive Director, Conservation International-China

Virginia Simpson
Senior Country Manager, Australia

Mere Lakeba
Country Director, Fiji

Geraldine Chin
Country Director, Singapore

Wilson John Barbon
Executive Director, The Philippines

Manuel Mendes 
Country Director, Timor-Leste

Tarita Holm
Conservation Partnership Director, Palau

Sony Oum
Country Director, Cambodia

Fitri Hasibuan
Vice President, Indonesia program

The Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science

Johan Rockström, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist

Stephanie Wear, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President

David Hole
Vice President, Global Solutions

Center for Natural Climate Solutions

Will Turner, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President

Bronson Griscom
Vice President, Natural Climate Solutions

Jen Howard
Vice President, Blue Carbon Program

John Lotspeich
Vice President, Global Restoration Program

Emily Nyrop
Vice President, Climate Change

Guy Pinjuv
Senior Technical Advisor

Center for Oceans

Ashleigh McGovern
Senior Vice President, Center for Oceans

Laure Katz
Vice President, Blue Nature

Emily Pidgeon
Vice President, Ocean Science and Innovation

Center for Sustainable Production

Jack Kittinger
Senior Vice President

Bambi Semroc
Senior Vice President, Food and Agriculture / Deputy SVP, Center for Regenerative Economies

John Buchanan
Vice President, Sustainable Production

Community-Led Solutions Partnership

Kristen Walker Painemilla
Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Luis Barquin
Vice President, Communities and Innovation

Global Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Center

Francisco Souza
Senior Vice President, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Johnson Cerda
Vice President, IPLC Engagement and Partnerships

Nature Finance Division

Deborah Spalding, CFA
Global Head, Nature Finance

Bjorn Stauch
Senior Vice President, Nature Finance

Chris Stone
Vice President, Long-Term Finance

Romas Garbaliauskas
Vice President, Nature Finance Innovation and Replication

Jana Lessenich
Vice President, Sustainable Finance

Chris Zink
Vice President, Nature Finance

Judith Reyes
Vice President, NFD Legal

Global Policy and Government Affairs

Lina Barrera
Senior Vice President, Global Policy and Government Affairs

Pasha Majdi
Vice President, US Government Policy and Strategy

Brand + Communications

Melanie Janin
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Jenny Parker 
Vice President of Integrated Media

Melina Formisano
Vice President, Brand Marketing

People & Culture

Francesca Cantarella
Deputy Chief People Officer

Wanjiru Gathira 
Vice President, Global Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Gray Chesson 
Vice President, Global Human Resources

Conservation Partnerships

Sebastian Troëng, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President

Brand Partnerships

Jamie Cross
Vice President

Global Information Technology

Sally Lehnhardt
Chief Information and Technology Officer

Julie Siron
Vice President, IT Business Solutions

General Counsel's Office

Rick Nash
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

Patricia Petty
Vice President and Chief Privacy / Data Ethics Officer

Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)

Olivier Langrand 
Senior Vice President

Jack Tordoff
Vice President

Development

Cynthia Tapley
Chief Development Officer

Erin Carmany
Vice President, Development & Campaign Director

Cynthia McKee
Senior Vice President, Strategic Gifts

Julia Upham
Vice President, Individual Giving

Judy Agnew
Vice President, Philanthropy

Europe and Global Public Partnerships

Herbert Lust 
Senior Vice President

Jonathan Hall
Vice President, CI United Kingdom

Naomi Kingston
Vice President, European Partnerships and Strategy

Amanda Sennert
Vice President, Outreach and Partnership Development

Jean-Denis Langlois
Vice President, People & Operations

Wendy Mathia
Vice President, Grants Management & Delivery

Global Environment Facility Project Agency and Green Climate Fund Implementing Agency

Orissa Samaroo
Vice President, GEF Policy and Portfolio Management

Free de Koning
Vice President, Project Development and Impact

Steve Panfil
Vice President, CI-GCF Agency

Susana Escudero
Vice President, Grants Management

Finance, Award Management + Grants and Contracts

Barbara DiPietro 
Chief Financial Officer

Lisa Mangkonkarn
Controller, Vice President

Matthew Wooliever
Vice President, Financial Information Management and Services

Lea Blubaugh
Vice President, External Grants and Contracts Unit