Charlie Burrell
A pioneer of rewilding, Charlie Burrell, is an English landowner, conservationist and founder of the Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale lowland rewilding project in England, which was created in the early 2000s when he stopped conventional farming on 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of land surrounding the ancestral family home at Knepp Castle in West Sussex. He is Chair of Foundation Conservation Carpathia, and on the advisory board of The Arcadia Fund, as well as the oversight committee for the Endangered Landscapes and Seascapes Programme. He is chair of The White Stork Project, Knepp Wildland Foundation, and Nattergal Ltd. and Vice Chair of rePLANET and Trustee to the Argolic Environment Foundation. He is on the Supervisory Board of Rewilding Europe.
Ben Goldsmith
Ben is a passionate environmentalist and the chief executive of London-listed, green-themed investment trust, Menhaden Resource Efficiency PLC. With Charlie Burrell, he co-founded Nattergal Ltd, a natural capital company focused on restoring ecosystems at scale. Ben founded and chairs Conservation Collective, a growing network of locally-focused environment foundations; and is a Trustee of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. Ben chairs the UK Conservative Environment Network and was a non-executive director of the U.K. Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) from 2018 to 2022. Complementing his green investment and philanthropy, he launched Rewilding the World, a podcast on that subject, in 2021.
Alicia Gibson
Alicia is a Director at Finance Earth, a mission-driven social enterprise, working in partnership with public, private and third sector organisations to finance nature recovery globally. Alicia has been active in building the emerging market for high impact investment in nature protection and enhancement since 2017. She has designed and implemented a wide-range of financing structures to support climate and nature, including the UK Nature Accelerator programme to help nature projects secure investment; the Greater Manchester Environment Fund to blend and align public, philanthropic and private capital across a city region; and the Wildlife Trust habitat banking investment model to unlock income for nature recovery. Alicia is a key member of initiatives supporting high integrity nature markets, including the Wilder Carbon Standard, the UK Saltmarsh Code, the Nature Market Principles and delivery of a Roadmap towards High-Integrity Marine Natural Capital Markets. Alicia previously qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte, where she provided audit and advisory services to private equity-backed businesses.
