The VCM+ Collaborative team
Alexia Kelly
Managing Director
Alexia is the Managing Director for the VCM+ Collaborative, providing guidance and expertise to maximize the impact of the Collaborative. Alexia has worked for more than 17 years at the intersection of policy and finance to address the climate crisis. She previously served as Director of Net Zero + Nature at Netflix, where she led the company’s inaugural greenhouse gas inventory, renewable energy strategy, Science Based Target, and global carbon credit portfolio. She has held senior roles at the U.S. Department of State, where she served as lead negotiator to the UNFCCC on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She has also held roles at the World Resources Institute, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Climate Trust, and in private equity. She serves on multiple non-profit boards and holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Public Administration and a Master in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon.
Matt Jordan
Communications Director
Matt is the Communications Director of the VCM+ Collaborative, helping amplify the work of the Collaborative and the importance of carbon markets as a tool for climate action. Matt has extensive experience in coalition building, strategic communications, and program design and implementation. Previously, he served as Director at RMI, where he co-led the creation of the Energy Transition Academy, an ambitious effort to build the workforce capacity needed to accelerate clean energy deployment worldwide. Earlier in his career, Matt built and led CLASP's Clean Energy Access portfolio, helping establish energy efficiency as a core pillar of global energy access and sustainable development. Matt holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Colgate University.
Madeleine Carnemark
VCM+ Collaborative Director
Madeleine is the Director of the VCM+ Collaborative. Prior to this role, she worked as the Carbon and Nature Finance Lead within the Global Permanence Fund at ZOMALAB and at McKinsey & Company, where she was a leader in the Sustainability Practice and a founding member of the Nature Service Line. She has advised Fortune 500 companies, governments, and global NGOs on corporate climate strategy, carbon market reform, conservation planning, community economic development, and jurisdictional decarbonization. She has also held roles at Rocky Mountain Institute, Environmental Defense Fund, and other NGOs, advancing climate tech innovation, corporate sustainability, and federal environmental policy. Madeleine holds a Master of Business Administration/Master of Science in Sustainable Business Strategy and Environmental Justice from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School for Environment and Sustainability, and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and Philosophy from Tulane University.
Yasemin Emami
Program Manager
Yasemin is a Program Manager for the VCM+ Collaborative, working within the Global Permanence Fund at ZOMALAB. As part of the VCM+ Collaborative team, she is working with partners in the space to build a more unified, trustworthy, and scalable carbon market. Yasemin studied at Brown University and the United States Air Force Academy where she developed her passion for working with teams to create sustainable solutions. Prior to this role, she worked as a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company supporting organizations in the development and execution of strategic priorities and growth initiatives.
Chris Davis
Policy Advisor
With experience across government, business, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector, Chris is a Policy Advisor for the VCM+ Collaborative. He previously developed the sustainability practice on Amazon’s public policy team where he led a team that woked decarbonization, fleet electrification, and corporate climate commitments. Earlier, Chris spent six years in the Washington Governor's Office as Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Energy Affairs, where he helped pass landmark legislation on clean energy, carbon pricing, electrification and clean transportation. Chris holds a Master of Arts in Geography from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pitzer College.
The VCM+ Fellows
VCM+ Fellow
AJ Bird is a Treaty 8 Indian from Deninu K’ue First Nation working at the intersection of carbon market integrity, Indigenous governance, climate infrastructure, and climate intelligence systems. Her work focuses on strengthening high-integrity carbon markets through rights-holder governance models, carbon removal strategy, and environmental market design, informed by experience spanning climate technology project development, Indigenous climate finance, and emerging climate infrastructure systems. AJ is Co-Founder and Chief Partnership Officer of AVNGRDE and serves in leadership roles supporting biodiversity finance, environmental governance, and Indigenous participation in emerging environmental markets.
VCM+ Fellow
Ashish Kumar comes from a long background in private market climate investing and innovative philanthropy – with funding experience across backing ventures, large-scale programs, and Funds as an LP. Ashish's deal experiences range across various climate and impact sectors – with a special focus on catalytic finance/blended finance, carbon markets, and private institutional capital mobilisation.
VCM+ Fellow
Alvin Lim is the CEO and Co-founder of Climate Bridge International, where he leads the international business of Climate Bridge Group, one of Asia's leading carbon finance companies. He was formerly the Head of Asia Environmental Products at Morgan Stanley and Vice President in the Enterprise Strategy team at GIC (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund), where he authored several white papers on the role of carbon markets for asset owners. Alvin is a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) and a Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Governance and Sustainability. He holds a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.
VCM+ Fellow
Benoît Clément is a carbon markets development strategist with fifteen years of experience spanning institutional banking, environmental program management, and climate ventures, including three years as Director of Financial Innovation at Verra. His work maps the financial infrastructure gap—legal title, custody and settlement, data integrity, and commercial connectivity—that limits institutional capital deployment into carbon markets. A former co-chair of IETA’s Digital Climate Markets Working Group, former certified arborist, he holds an Executive MBA, and a CPO Certificate from Northwestern Kellogg.
VCM+ Fellow
Anna Lerner Nesbitt is a sustainability leader with 20 years of experience across Meta, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility. Currently the Founder & CEO of Climate Collective, a 501c3 nonprofit directing AI to support positive outcomes for people and planet.
VCM+ Fellow
As TNC's Global Managing Director for Carbon Markets, Campbell Moore works with TNC staff, partners, communities, investors, policymakers and others to ensure carbon markets reach their full potential as a transformative climate solution that can also improve millions of lives and restore our planet. Cam has worked on several continents on most aspects of carbon markets over the past twenty years. He is an ardent supporter of the vision and urgency of the VCM+ Collaborative.
The future of the verified carbon market depends on diverse, global leadership and insight from across the ecosystem. As recognized experts in their fields, Fellows help advance the VCM+ Action Agenda and inform the strategic direction of the VCM+ Collaborative. They serve as trusted thought partners and informed voices, offering insight, perspective, and guidance on the Verified Carbon Market.
VCM+ Fellow
Holly Pearen is Lead Counsel for EDF’s Carbon Pricing team. In that role, she develops and executes high impact strategies on complex carbon pricing initiatives focusing on legal, accounting and financial market regulation and infrastructure. She brings nearly twenty years of legal experience at the intersection of natural resource and financial markets, and a background in economics, to advance and protect EDF’s climate, public health and environmental priorities
VCM+ Fellow
Katie Sullivan is Managing Director of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), where she leads work on international carbon markets, climate finance, and implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Prior to joining IETA, she held leadership roles in environmental markets and sustainable finance. She is widely recognized as a leading voice on global carbon market policy, market integrity, and private sector engagement in climate action
VCM+ Fellow
Jocelyne Landry Tsonang is Co-Founder of Nature Crest and co-developer of AFRICO2, a digital platform advancing transparency and integrity in African carbon markets. With over 11 years of experience structuring carbon and green finance projects across Central and West Africa, she has contributed to global sustainability governance including through the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Sustainable Use of Resources. She is a leading voice for equitable, high-integrity carbon market development that centers African perspectives and communities in global decision-making.
VCM+ Fellow
Keshinee Shah is an independent strategic advisor working at the intersection of carbon market governance, compliance finance, and climate policy across Africa. With a track record spanning country-level advisory work, continental governance architecture, and an integrated understanding of both the supply-side systems that determine market access and the demand-side dynamics reshaping where value concentrates, she focuses on ensuring African governments are positioned as rule-makers — not rule-takers — in the global carbon markets being shaped today. Until recently she served as Director at the Climate Action Platform Africa.
VCM+ Fellow
John Mwakima is a Kenyan climate governance and community development practitioner, strategic communications leader, and carbon market advocate with over 15 years of experience across government, civil society, and international development contexts. As Founder and Executive Director of ABCDE Trust Kenya, I work at the intersection of REDD+, biodiversity conservation, climate finance, and trusted carbon market communications, with a strong focus on advancing equitable, community-centered, and high-integrity climate solutions while amplifying Global South and IPLC perspectives within global climate discourse.
VCM+ Fellow
Dr. Leo Hyoungkun Park is a global carbon markets architect and UNFCCC Article 6.4 Climate Policy Expert with over two decades of experience directing high-integrity climate investments and frontier technologies. He currently serves as Senior Vice President at Capture6 Corp, where he spearheads global strategy and carbon credit commercialization, having previously managed a $3.5 billion climate asset portfolio across 60 countries for the Green Climate Fund. A pioneer in national carbon architectures, Dr. Park bridges the voluntary and compliance markets to mobilize scalable, equitable climate finance across the Global South.
VCM+ Fellow
Mamta Lama is a Program Officer at RECOFTC and a governing board member of the Engagement Forum at the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), where she works at the intersection of carbon market integrity, social safeguards, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. With nearly five years of experience across the Asia-Pacific region, she specializes in benefit-sharing governance, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), and ensuring high-integrity carbon markets deliver equitable outcomes for those most affected by climate change. She holds an MSc in Applied GIS from the University of Sheffield and has recently completed an executive program at Yale University on corporate engagement in carbon markets.
VCM+ Fellow
Rosendo Pérez has been working with Carbon Offset Projects and Indigenous Communities since 2014, successfully incorporating indigenous groups to the VCM and providing technical guidance to create Carbon Offsets that integrate Ecological, Social and Economic co-benefits to implementing indigenous communities.
VCM+ Fellow
WariNkwi Flores is a citizen of the Kara Andean and Kichwa Andean::Amazonian Nations and founder of the Kinray Hub, an Indigenous RDI Think::Do Tank operating across Ecuador and the United States. It centers IPs&LCs as sovereign actors in climate finance, data equity shares, and nature-based solutions. An IPBES Fellow at the 2nd Global Assessment and a contributor to international biodiversity credit frameworks through the IAPB and BCA-WEF collaboration, Flores specializes in Indigenous Data Sovereignty, BioKulture Systems Design, and trans-systems negotiation conditions for voluntary carbon and biodiversity markets. Flores has represented Indigenous Peoples at international meetings such as COP16, CEIBA, and EMRIP, and publishes in the fields of natural science, political economy, data authority, and Indigenous research policy.
VCM+ Fellow
Molly Peters-Stanley is Founder and CEO of Seneca Vantage, an advisory firm focused on climate finance, carbon markets, and sustainability strategy. She is widely recognized for her leadership in voluntary carbon markets, having previously led Ecosystem Marketplace, where she oversaw the industry's leading market intelligence and analysis on voluntary carbon markets. Molly has more than two decades of experience working across climate finance, environmental markets, and sustainable development, advising companies, investors, and policymakers on emerging opportunities in carbon and natural capital markets.
VCM+ Fellow
Stella Napanu is a conservation scientist and Indigenous advocate from Kenya's Samburu community, serving as Senior Manager for Indigenous Peoples Outreach and Policy at the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), where she also provides secretariat support to the self-led Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Engagement Forum — an independent, self-governing body ensuring IPLCs have a strong voice in shaping high-integrity carbon markets. With over 8 years of experience in Natural Climate Solutions, community-led conservation, and carbon justice, she bridges Indigenous Knowledge, contemporary science, and art to empower frontline communities as equal partners and decision-makers — not just beneficiaries — in the carbon market. She brings extensive expertise in ecosystem health, rangelands management, and community conservancy governance across Northern Kenya, and is a passionate speaker and advocate for equitable, community-centered climate finance on the global stage.
VCM+ Fellow
Ria Mariamah is a climate change and development professional with 15 years of experience at the intersection of land-use policy, finance, and social safeguards. Currently advising the Climate and Land Use Alliance in Indonesia, she focuses on strengthening the role of civil society and community-based organizations within the carbon market ecosystem. Driven by her roots in a farming community, Ria is deeply committed to ensuring that climate finance delivers both emission reductions and the socioeconomic benefits that sustain forest protection and local communities.
VCM+ Fellow
Dr. Tracey Osborne is the Founder and Director of the Carbon Justice Standard Lab and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Merced, with over two decades of experience working on climate change mitigation in tropical forests, carbon markets, climate finance, and climate justice. Her research and practice focus on the social, ecological, and political economic dimensions of forest-based climate solutions, with particular attention to Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Through the Carbon Justice Standard Lab, she is developing a framework for high-integrity, community-led carbon projects that centers community leadership, governance, and equitable benefit-sharing.