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
| Joji Cariño | Director |
| Marcus Colchester | Senior Policy Advisor |
| Louise Henson | Organisational Managing Director |
| Patrick Anderson | Policy Advisor, Indonesia |
| Raissa Bashonga | Admin and Finance, DRC |
| Balla Camara | Finance and Monitoring Officer |
| Sophie Chao | Project Officer |
| Fiona Cottrell | Finance and Africa Projects Manager |
| Valérie Couillard | Coordinator, Legal and Human Rights Programme (LHRP) |
| Conrad Feather | Project Officer, RFP and EGP |
| Maurizio Farhan Ferrari | Coordinator, Environmental Governance Programme (EGP) |
| Tom Griffiths | Coordinator, Responsible Finance Programme (RFP) |
| Gemma Humphrys | Communications Officer |
| Vanessa Jiménez | Senior Attorney, LHRP |
| Caroline de Jong | Project Officer, EGP |
| 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 |
| Nadia Mbanzidi | Legal Assistant, DRC |
| Alancay Morales Garro | Project Officer, LHRP |
| Joelle Mukunga | Technical Assistant, DRC |
| John Nelson | Africa Regional Coordinator |
| Julia Overton | Logistics and Administrative Officer |
| Sue Richards | Administrative Assistant |
| 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 |
| Clare Whitmore | Database and Technical 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 |
| 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 | DTE International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia | Indonesian peoples, forests and environment |
| Justin Phipps | Solicitor | Social anthropology, law and human rights |
| 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 |