Paul Chatterton is the lead and founder of the Landscape Finance Lab, a global platform for incubating and financing sustainable landscapes that spun out of the conservation organisation WWF in 2021.
Paul is a globally recognised specialist in the fields of sustainability, climate change, land use and green finance. Through the Lab, he supports a global community innovating on landscape solutions.
During an extensive career with WWF, Paul has catalysed results including two of the world’s largest forest and carbon programs, Europe’s longest river protected area and the largest rainforest reserve in the Pacific.
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 Foundation, World Economic Forum, EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and Forest Stewardship Council among others.
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.
