The Team

Professor David Hill CBE DL DPhil(Oxon).​

David founded the Environment Bank in 2006 and developed the concept of biodiversity net gain, successfully implemented into law in the Environment Act 2021, creating the first global compliance-based biodiversity market. A passionate nature conservationist, David was a founding member and previously Deputy Chair of Natural England, the government’s statutory advisers on nature conservation, Board Member of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, a member of the government’s Ecosystem Markets Taskforce, Chairman of Plantlife International and a Commissioner with the Food Farming and Countryside Commission. He is currently a Board member of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Woodland Trust and a member of the science committee of FERA. His work on promoting the importance of nature finance and the role of environmental markets, backed by his extensive experience in the land-based sectors, is changing the shape and pace of nature restoration.​

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Ian Dunn BSc MBA MSt FRGS.

Ian has enjoyed a highly varied career encompassing 25 years in the private sector, living and working for over 15 years in Japan, Brazil, Belgium and Holland.  He has sat on Company Boards throughout Asia, Middle East, South America, and Europe. Leaving the corporate world in 2009 to follow his wider interests in the natural environment, Ian has since worked with the British Antarctic Survey, as CEO at The Galapagos Conservation Trust, COO at the University of Southampton and until September 2024 as CEO at Plantlife International. He has also held Board positions in NGOs including at the Scottish Association of Marine Science (Treasurer and Vice Chair), Jane Goodall Institute, United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (Vice Chair) and Bees for Development.  He’s led and consulted at organisations with a turnover in the many £Billions with thousands of employees based in many countries, through to those much smaller with just a handful of staff.  With a deep love of listening, learning and sharing, Ian has focused on delivering strategic change and impact across multiple sectors. He is committed to working with like-minded people and organisations also determined on making a difference for the recovery of the natural world.

 

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