Benjamin Landreau Email and Phone Number

Benjamin Landreau graduated in Political Sciences (Sciences Po) and holds a Master’s degree in Environmental management. He has significant experience in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He has worked for 15 years in the area of biodiversity conservation, focusing on Sustainable Funding for networks of Protected Areas, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), African Network of Biosphere Reserves (AfriMAB, Unesco), the European Union, the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds (RedLAC), and different bilateral development agencies such as the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial (French GEF). He is also specialized in « carbon finance », Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and holds a 5-year experience as CDM project developer in Asia and Latin America for Carbon Management Consulting. He also conducted several studies for the creation or upgrade of Conservation Trust Funds (in Comoros, in Central Africa (8 countries), Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (21 countries) and Ecuador). In 2013, he authored a guidebook on Resources Mobilization for Conservation Trust Funds and he published in 2014 an article on Park Bonds, which is currently being promoted as a new financial instrument to support conservation. Park Bonds were subject of presentation at the World Park Congress of Sydney and selected to be presented at the International Summit on Sustainable Finance of Geneva (2014).