Founding Director
Global Canopy Programme
Co-Founder
Natural Capital Finance Alliance
Andrew W. Mitchell is a Founder of the Natural Capital Finance Alliance and the Global Canopy Programme (GCP). Currently, he is Senior Adviser to Ecosphere Plus (E+), and Director of the consultancy firm Equilibrium Futures. He is an international thought leader on tropical forests, climate change and natural capital.
He has extensive field experience in Asia, Africa and Latin America, across a forty-year career spanning scientific research, conservation and finance for tropical forests. He works to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding sustainable forests and landscapes as natural capital that underpins water, food, energy, health and climate security for all.