Staff and Board
FPP employs a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in land rights, environment and development, and indigenous affairs with high-level qualifications in social anthropology, human rights law, tropical forest ecology and environmental science. The team has longstanding and extensive experience working directly with indigenous peoples and forests in all corners of the globe.
Staff
| Marcus Colchester | Director |
| Louise Henson | Organisational Managing Director |
| Patrick Anderson | Policy Advisor - Indonesia |
| Balla Camara | Finance and Monitoring Officer |
| Sophie Chao | Assistant to the Director |
| Fiona Cottrell | Finance Manager |
| Valérie Couillard | Coordinator, Legal and Human Rights Programme (LHRP) |
| Conrad Feather | Project Officer, RFP & EGP |
| Maurizio Farhan Ferrari | Coordinator, Environmental Governance Programme (EGP) |
| Emmanuel Freudenthal | Project Officer, EGP & RFP |
| Tom Griffiths | Coordinator, Responsible Finance Programme (RFP) |
| Gemma Humphrys | Communications and Administrative Assistant |
| Vanessa Jiménez | Senior Attorney, LHRP |
| Caroline de Jong | Project Officer, EGP |
| Denis Juneau | Project Technical Advisor, DRC |
| Justin Kenrick | Policy Advisor, Africa |
| Chris Kidd | Project Officer, LHRP |
| Patrick Kipalu | Project Coordinator, DRC |
| Emil Kleden | Field Officer, Indonesia |
| Tom Lomax | Lawyer, LHRP |
| Francesco Martone | Policy Advisor, RFP |
| Alancay Morales Garro | Project Officer, LHRP |
| John Nelson | Africa Regional Coordinator |
| Julia Overton | Logistics and Administrative Officer |
| Sarah Roberts | Institutional Finance Manager |
| Annabelle Rossi | Communications Officer |
| Helen Tugendhat | Policy Advisor, LHRP and RFP |
| Messe Venant | Field Officer, Cameroon |
| Stéphanie Vig | Lawyer, LHRP |
| Rebecca Whitby | Administrative Assistant |
| Penninah Zaninka | Project Officer, Uganda |
Board of trustees
| Position | Expertise | |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Wolvekamp (Chair) | Deputy Director, Both ENDS, Netherlands | Community development and livelihoods |
| Saskia Ozinga (Treasurer) | Director, FERN The EU Forest Campaign | Aid, trade and environment |
| Joji Cariño | Tebtebba, Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education | Indigenous peoples and human rights |
| Chad Dobson | Executive Director, Bank Information Center | Development policy and civil society |
| Séamus P Finn | OMI Director, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation | Ethics and international finance |
| Carolyn Marr | Coordinator, DTE International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia | Indonesian peoples, forests and environment |
| Justin Phipps | Solicitor | Social anthropology, law and human rights |
| Tarcila Rivera Zea | Journalist and Director of El Consejo Directivo de Chirapaq / Coordinación Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas Región Sudamerica | Indigenous women's rights in South America |
| Silas Siakor | Former Director of Sustainable Development Institute, Liberia | Community rights to land and resources, alternative and sustainable development in Liberia |
| Carol Yong | Independent researcher-consultant | Indigenous peoples, dams, forced displacement, gender and development |