Our Staff

A leading expert on understanding and measuring the connection between human well-being and biodiversity conservation, Beth has more than 25 years of experience in conservation and community development. She has developed approaches to measure and support community well-being in biodiversity and climate work to create more sustainable outcomes for people and wildlife. Beth was recently named one of the Explorers Club’s “Fifty People Changing The World, The World Needs To Know About”.

Beth is a consultant and advisor to several organizations and a member of three International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commissions. Before founding OneNature, Beth was the US Director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare and has worked for USAID, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Peace Corp Headquarters, and The Nature Conservancy. Beth has a master’s degree in Business Management from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from James Madison University

Luce is a senior in high school in Maryland looking to study animal science abroad next year. Alongside art, rock climbing and horseback riding, she is interested in studying birds. She hopes to contribute to research, rescue, and conservation efforts concerning our feathered friends.”

Beatrice is an Innovation & Design Thinking consultant passionate about connecting ideas, people and places through strategic and human centered design solutions, enabling behavior change to create more sustainable and inclusive organizations. With a Master of Science from the University of Bristol in Management with Innovation, she is experienced in working with multidisciplinary teams to create insight-driven and creative strategies for both social and commercial enterprises. Beatrice worked as a Senior Consultant at EY Seren, a business transformation agency based in London, where she helped clients across industries (including government and public services projects) align their business strategies with evolving market demands, focusing on social inclusivity and and environmental sustainability. She has also worked at a Management Development consultancy in Rome, collaborating on companies growth strategies and cultural transformation journeys through creative project management and processes improvement (including Ideation Workshops and Focus groups with cross-functional teams).Her passion for sustainability and social Innovation, and her experience in human-centred design solutions, have led her to OneNature’s mission of empowering communities through conservation and well-being initiatives.

John’s expertise spans systems approaches to environment and development, sustainable finance, benefit-sharing mechanisms, and the interface between health and biodiversity. His background also includes experience as a sustainability/ESG analyst, nature-based solutions expert, and program manager with extensive experience in environment and development programming in Africa. John has led numerous delegations to intergovernmental processes, and designed numerous development activities with a focus on climate adaptation and mitigation and biodiversity conservation. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 books, chapters, or reports on environmental policy. He also has extensive experience in sustainability communications, ranging from village level negotiations to addressing the UN General Assembly. He has also led or managed more than a dozen large scale evaluation programs.