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Alice Gerow

Researcher (forest finance)

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Telephone: +44 (0)20 3463 7399
Languages: English, French, Spanish

Alice works on research and programme implementation relating to forest finance and sustainable forest management.

Expertise

Forest finance; small-and medium-enterprise finance and financial inclusion; sustainable forest management; nature-based or natural climate solutions; urban forestry.

Before IIED

  • Operations manager for the urban canopy program of a Greater Paris public authority (France)
  • Nature-based Solutions at La Forestière de la Caisse des Dépôts (France)
  • Research for CIFOR-ICRAF (Kenya), Environmental Defense Fund, World Resources Institute (USA), Center for the Advanced Study of India (India)
  • Consultant in private equity and mergers and acquisitions at Kearney (USA)

Education

  • Master of Forestry, Yale School of the Environment

Current work

  • Finance for producer organisations – enabling producer organisations in areas with high forest cover, or operating in sensitive terrestrial ecosystems, to mobilise and access finance for livelihoods and nature and climate outcomes
  • Sustainable forest management – providing technical support and capacity building for small and medium forest enterprises

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