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GRI Topic Standard project forbiodiversity
Technical committee member biographies
July 2023© GRI 2022

Contents
GRI Topic Standard project for biodiversity .........................................................................................1
Contents ...............................................................................................................................................2
Technical committee members ................................................................................................................3
Raphaëlle Archambeaud-Sicot ............................................................................................................3
Garo Batmanian ...................................................................................................................................3
Jan Bebbington ....................................................................................................................................4
Gerard Bos ...........................................................................................................................................4
Wijnand Broer .......................................................................................................................................5
Sharon Brooks ......................................................................................................................................5
Rebekah Church ..................................................................................................................................5
Simona D’Amico ...................................................................................................................................6
Simon Gobert .......................................................................................................................................6
Annelisa Grigg ......................................................................................................................................7
Thomas Maddox ...................................................................................................................................7
Sue Mulhall ...........................................................................................................................................8
Elizabeth Peters ...................................................................................................................................9
Leah Samberg ......................................................................................................................................9
Alexandra Sangmeister ........................................................................................................................9
Katie Shaw-Brown ..............................................................................................................................10
Willie Staudt........................................................................................................................................10
Guy Williams.......................................................................................................................................11

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Technical committee members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected thefollowing members to participate in the technical committee that will be responsible for reviewing thebiodiversity disclosures in the GRI Standards. The members represent diverse, multi-stakeholder
backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge and experience inbiodiversity.

Raphaëlle Archambeaud-Sicot
Sustainability Director, L’OCCITANE Group, Switzerland
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Raphaëlle Archambeaud-Sicot joined L’OCCITANE en Provence brandin 2008 for its values, environmental commitments, and community
investment. She spent 10 years in International Marketing for the brand,
up to the position of Skincare Director, where she initiated a newambition and dynamic for the brand's environmental and social
commitments. In 2018, she took the position of Sustainability Director forthe group to extend this strategy and ambition to the whole company (6brands, 90 distribution countries, 3 production facilities) – and started at
the same time a Master’s in Sustainability Management at Geneva
Business School. She is also a volunteer facilitator of Climate Fresk, aworkshop to explain climate change, its causes, and consequences, anduses it to raise awareness on her professional and personal networks.

Garo Batmanian
Global Lead for Forests, Landscape Biodiversity, World Bank,
USA
Constituency: Investment Institution
Garo Batmanian is the Global Lead for Forests, Landscape Biodiversity,
responsible for coordinating the implementation of an integrated green
agenda. Garo coordinates and manages the Global Partnership for
Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes (PROGREEN) and the Forest
Investment Program (FIP). Garo is the World Bank’s authority focusing
on the International Consortium to Combat Wildlife Crime (ICCWC),
Convention on Biological Diversity, the Collaborative Partnership on
Forests (CPF), and the chair of the Finance Task Force of the UN
Decade for Ecosystem Restoration Initiative.
He has previously worked in the World Bank offices in Brazil and China.
Garo has extensive experience in environmental management, forestry,carbon finance, and rural development. He has also led or had
involvement in the Bank’s analytical work and lending operations
focusing on environmental sustainability.
Earlier in his career, Garo was the LAC Program Director of WWF-USA
and the first CEO of the Worldwide Fund for Nature Brazil (WWF-Brazil).
Garo is also the founder of FSC-Brazil, serving as its first chairman,
leading the development of national standards for natural forest
management in the Amazon and plantations.
Garo holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia, USA.

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Jan Bebbington
Professor, Centre Director, Lancaster University, UK
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Jan Bebbington works at Lancaster University and published on topics
such as the Sustainable Development Goals; sustainability science;motivations and rationales for standalone reporting; carbon accounting;sustainability assessment, and accounting education. Jan is involved ina long-term collaboration between ecologists and sustainability scientists
at the Stockholm Resilience Centre that aims to provide knowledge to apractice-based cohort of seafood companies seeking to actively
contribute to ocean stewardship (focusing on SDG 14 – Life Below theWater). The project is yielding insight into the differences between
accountability and stewardship as well as the issues in establishingorganizational control over supply chains and reporting meaningfully on
performance.
Alongside her academic work, Jan also has made contributions to thepractice and policy communities in a variety of roles, including, forexample, being the Vice-Chair (Scotland) of the Sustainable
Development Commission from 2006 to 2011. The role of theCommission (a part of the UK Government) was to promote sustainable
development across the UK and all sectors of society, particularly within
Government. In 2021 Jan was part of a panel of experts for theIntergovernmental Panel of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services andthe Business and Biodiversity working group.

Gerard Bos
Partnership Coodinator, Global Commons Alliance, Switzerland
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Gerard Bos is working with the Global Commons Alliance. He is theformer Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme at
the International Union of the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Gerard’s
career started in the banking world, followed by many years in finance,
procurement, and supply chain roles in the building materials sector. He
has working experience on all continents, has lived in many countries,and speaks five languages fluently.
Gerard is passionate about driving transformational change throughmulti-sector collaborative platforms that challenge the corporate sector's
current and future business models. He understands that to achieve asustainable world that values and conserves nature, decision-makers inbusiness, civil, and government need to systematically explore how to
avoid or mitigate any negative impact and optimize the opportunities toscale up the positive impact on people and nature. Gerard believes
valuing natural capital and integrating nature-based solutions incorporate decision-making are the next two critical game-changers
towards a more sustainable future.

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Wijnand Broer
Programme Manager, PBAF, The Netherlands
Constituency: Investment Institution
Wijnand Broer studied Horticulture and Marketing at Wageningen
University in the Netherlands and is a partner at the Dutch Sustainability
consultancy CREM. He has been working with CREM since 1993 andhas specialized in corporate social responsibility, business andbiodiversity, natural capital, and socially responsible investment. He has
been working with ASN Bank on their long-term biodiversity objective
since 2014 and has been the Program Manager at the Partnership for
Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) since its start in 2019.
Wijnand previously contributed to two GRI publications: Biodiversity, a
GRI Reporting Resource (2006) and Approach for reporting on
ecosystem services: Incorporating ecosystem services into anorganization's performance disclosure (2011).

Sharon Brooks
Deputy Head of Business and Biodiversity, UNEP-WCMC, UK
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Sharon Brooks is Deputy Head of Business and Biodiversity at UNEPWCMC. Sharon oversees a portfolio of work emphasizing nature-related
metrics, targets, and data for business and has experience with various
industry sectors, including extractives, agriculture, and finance. Sharon
has led projects related to private sector standards, methods, and tools
to assess, monitor, and report on biodiversity throughout value chains,
including prior work with GRI on developing an approach for reporting on
ecosystem services. Sharon has over 20 years of experience ininternational conservation, an MSc in Applied Ecology andConservation, and a Ph.D. in Conservation and Development.

Rebekah Church
Global Lead Biodiversity Stewardship, WWF, Germany
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Rebekah Church has extensive experience identifying, assessing, andmeasuring the impacts of business on nature as an environmental
lawyer and advisor with over a decade of experience in biodiversity
conservation, sustainability, and corporate governance. As WWF’s
Global Lead Biodiversity Stewardship, she leads the development andimplementation of a corporate biodiversity stewardship management
framework. The stewardship framework guides corporate engagement
on biodiversity risk and opportunity analysis and the development ofbusiness cases, implementation strategies, goals, targets, and KPIs.
This work also includes developing tools to help the private sector
understand and manage the risks and opportunities concerning theirbiodiversity impacts and dependencies.
From 2018 to 2021, Rebekah acted as Senior Counsel, Sustainability
and Climate Change for BMO Financial Group. In this role, she initiatedthe development of an industry-leading biodiversity framework for the
8th largest bank in North America. She also participated in the
Biodiversity Working Group of the Equator Principles Association andPage 5 of 11

acted as Chair of the Cross-Sector Biodiversity Initiative, an organization
seeking to develop best practices for biodiversity conservation in theextractive industries. In this role, Rebekah supported the production of
BMO’s public disclosures on sustainability issues, including meeting
requirements under GRI, CDP, SASB, TCFD, and emerging regulations
made under the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan.
From 2012 to 2018, in her role with the Environmental Commissioner ofOntario, she provided cutting-edge research and thought leadership on
biodiversity conservation.

Simona D’Amico
Biodiversity Expert, UEBT, The Netherlands
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Simona leads UEBT’s work on biodiversity. She has been central in thedevelopment of biodiversity-related requirements in the internationallyrecognised Ethical BioTrade Standard, as well as on implementing tools
such as the UEBT Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs). Simona is currently
overseeing the roll-out of BAPs by UEBT members and partners incountries around the world. She is also now developing UEBT's
approach on topics such as regenerative agriculture and ecologicalrestoration.
Simona holds a PhD in Rural Sociology from Wageningen University.
Prior to UEBT, she worked on European research projects on policies
for organic farming and sustainable food systems, as well as thevalorisation of agrobiodiversity through sustainable agrifood chains.

Simon Gobert
Sustainability Performance and Reporting Manager, DSM, The
Netherlands
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Simon Gobert is responsible for external reporting of DSM’ssustainability performance and ensures sustainability performance iscontinuously improved. He is the Sustainability Manager for DSM’sIntegrated Annual Report, where he is responsible for reporting incompliance with the GRI Standards: Comprehensive option. DSM’sannual report is subject to a reasonable assurance engagement which
Simon leads. He is part of DSM’s working group on biodiversity, which iscurrently investigating improving the use of digital tooling to measure our
proximity to, and impact on, biodiversity. The group is closely engaged in
the revision of the biodiversity standard. In 2022, DSM aims to appoint a
biodiversity lead. At this time, Simon would evaluate, together with GRI,
the most valuable and appropriate path forward regarding participation in
the technical committee.

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Annelisa Grigg
Director, Global Balance, UK
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Annelisa Grigg has more than 20 years of experience advising
companies and civil society on the business risks and opportunities
associated with the loss of nature. She combines a technicalbackground in conservation biology with financial accounting knowledge.
She started her career as a sustainability consultant with accounting firm
KPMG, later working in leadership roles within environmental groups
Fauna & Flora International and the United Nations Environment
Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).
Annelisa recently spearheaded efforts to create broad agreement on
corporate biodiversity indicators creating the Aligning Biodiversity
Measures for Business Initiative.
Annelisa now specializes in integrating biodiversity into natural capitalassessments, corporate biodiversity indicators and disclosure, and theintegration of biodiversity into business strategy and financial decisionmaking. She is a long-term advisor to Aviva on the inclusion of
biodiversity criteria within its stewardship fund range.
Annelisa has an M.Phil. in Environment and Development and a B.A. in
Zoology from Cambridge University.

Thomas Maddox
Global Director for Forests and Land, CDP, UK
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Thomas Maddox has worked on the interface between business and theenvironment for twenty years. He has a Ph.D. in Ecology from University
College, London, and an MBA from the University of Cambridge Judge
Business School and currently works for CDP as the Global Director for
Forests and Land. In this role, he is responsible for the CDP Forests
Questionnaire and the various projects associated with this, including
major grants from NORAD and USAID. He also plays a key role indeveloping strategy, including the expansion of CDP’s remit toincorporate a broader definition of environmental impact. This role
includes direct responsibility for incorporating biodiversity into thedisclosure cycle – a process initiated in 2021.
Additionally, he is a CDSB Biodiversity Technical Working Group
member and works closely with the SBTN. He previously initiated andcoordinated a project that subsequently evolved into the ALIGN projectfor standardizing approaches to measuring corporate biodiversity
impacts. Thomas also has a long history of working with standards
bodies. He is a current board member for Responsible Steel and theRoundtable for Responsible Soy. Thomas has also been actively
involved in various voluntary environmental industry standards.

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Sue Mulhall
Global Lead, Business and Biodiversity Partnerships, BirdLife
International, Singapore
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
As Global Lead, Business and Biodiversity Partnerships, Sue Mulhall's
key responsibilities include being an Integrated Biodiversity Assessment
Tool (IBAT) User Sub-Committee Member (since 2018), where she
informs strategy, including new product development, from a user
perspective. She leads BirdLife’s Biodiversity & Business Strategy. As
per BirdLife’s key conservation programs (e.g., Key Biodiversity Areas,
Flyways, Forests), she designed the strategies to address the key
conservation issue and desired outcome. The system change addresses
key sectors (e.g., Minerals, Renewable Energy, Agriculture) and sectorwide value chain engagement strategy to transform business as usual
practices (BAU) and secure financing to conserve nature. Sue isinvolved in sector/industry engagement to mainstream biodiversity
conservation, including:••Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) – anactive contributor in the development of the platform since March
2018, and an active member of the Capacity Building Working
Group, previously the Smallholder Working Group.
Membership of BirdLife’s Post-2020 Task Team, whose mandate is
to facilitate knowledge sharing and alignment on policy advocacy
across the BirdLife Partnership of 117 national partners, focusing
on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) global
biodiversity framework.

Sue engages businesses to inform and advance evidence-based
business policy into actionable, sustainable practices at a site level,
including:•••Mineral sector businesses with a focus on biodiversity proximity
studies, management plans and training, landholdings evaluation toassess the potential of sites to deliver biodiversity enhancement,
carbon storage and/or capture and opportunities for indigenous
people and local communities.
Renewable Energy sector businesses with a focus on synthesizing
data and delivering spatial tools to aid in decision-making on the
optimum project siting based on resource potential and naturesensitivity and guidance on mitigating biodiversity impacts.
Agricultural sector businesses with a focus on forest positive
practices and sustainable supply chains.

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Elizabeth Peters
Public Services International / Senior Ranger, Department ofConservation, New ZealandConstituency: Labor
Elizabeth Peters has a passion for conservation and environmental
sustainability with over 10 years of experience in advisory and researchroles in government, NGOs, and academia. With the Department ofConservation, she has helped shape policy and managed programs toprotect conservation values in Aotearoa. Elizabeth brings international
experience, including leading the food policy strategy at WWF Belgium.
She has experience in program and stakeholder management,
implementation, and development of environmental policies.

Leah Samberg
Scientist, Global Programs, Rainforest Alliance/ Accountability
Framework Initiative, USA
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Dr. Leah Samberg is a scientist with the Rainforest Alliance’s Global
Policy team. She works as part of the Accountability Framework
Initiative’s Backbone Team, where she leads the AFi’s activities onmonitoring, disclosure, and linkages between deforestation and GHG
emissions.
Before joining the Rainforest Alliance, Leah worked as a researchscientist looking at links between smallholder farming, livelihoods, andconservation, for the University of Minnesota’s Institute on theEnvironment, the Nature Conservancy, the University of California Santa
Cruz, and as a Fulbright Scholar in Ethiopia.
Leah has a doctorate from the Environmental Studies program at UC
Santa Cruz and a BA in Ecology from Dartmouth College.

Alexandra Sangmeister
Director, Marine Watch International, USA
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Alexandra Sangmeister is the Founder and Executive Director of Marine
Watch International. MWI’s mission is to protect the oceans by sharing
information and fostering collaboration among people and organizations
working in ocean conservation around the world. MWI partnered with theFoundation Center to launch FundingtheOcean.org, an online
knowledge hub designed to track, inform and inspire ocean conservation
philanthropy. Alexandra has over 30 years of experience inconservation, development, and international scientific research.
Organizations worked for include the Smithsonian Institution, California
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Zoo, The Marine Mammal Center,and WildAid. For the last five years, she has worked in Data Services fora financial technology company, SS&C Advent. Advent is a portfolio
management and accounting solutions and services provider to theworld's leading institutional asset and wealth management firms. She
recently completed the Sustainable Capitalism and ESG Certification at
Berkeley Law.

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Katie Shaw-Brown
Principal Advisor Biodiversity, Environment Area of Expertise, Rio
Tinto, Global
Constituency: Civil Society Organization
Katie Shaw-Brown has worked for 13 years in consulting, research, oiland gas, and mining sectors with experience in Australia, Senegal,
Myanmar, New Zealand, and Cambodia as an environmental
professional,
This work has spanned approvals and operational roles in mining andoffshore oil and gas; marine ecology and fauna research; oil spill
response execution; marine fisheries spatial planning and protected area
assessment; environmental assurance; carbon abatement; terrestrial
field monitoring and development of ESIAs and EMPs. Their technicalexperience lies in ecology, marine science, spatial science, andenvironmental management.
Currently, their role involves the administration of the Rio Tinto
biodiversity standard and implementation of external biodiversity andreporting standards. In addition, they provide technical biodiversity,
environmental management, and strategic support for activities across a
range of geographies, mining lifecycle stages, and within Iron Ore,
Copper, Minerals, and Aluminium.

Willie Staudt
Director Water & Biodiversity, ConocoPhillips, USA
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Dr. Wilfried Staudt is the Director, Water & Biodiversity inConocoPhillips’ corporate Sustainable Development team. He is a waterand biodiversity specialist with a Ph.D. in Geochemistry. He has over 25
years of experience with a multi-disciplinary background in sustainable
development, strategic planning, environmental impact assessment,
environmental human health & ecological risk assessment, metrics andstandards development, and multi-stakeholder collaboration.
As Director Water & Biodiversity, Dr. Staudt is responsible for providing
strategic leadership and oversight for managing water and biodiversity
business risks with an emphasis on the development andimplementation of policy, strategy, processes, and metrics to improve
performance and reputation. His focus includes integrating sustainability
concepts into project design and long-term planning for ConocoPhillips’s
global asset portfolio.
Current responsibilities include:•••

Providing global operations with strategic oversight andconsultation on water and biodiversity long-term sustainability
strategies and risk assessment;
Developing and implementing corporate biodiversity strategy;
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•••Leading the development of communications materials for waterand biodiversity in annual SD Report and submissions to ESG
rating agencies;
Leading the internal global water and biodiversity expert working
groups; andRepresenting ConocoPhillips at industry organizations working
groups.

Guy Williams
Executive Director, Pollination, Vietnam
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Guy Williams is the Executive Director at Pollination and works as anindustry thought leader in biodiversity and natural capital, providing
science-based solutions to solve new and emerging global challenges.
Guy served as Deloitte’s global representative of the Taskforce on
Nature-Related Financial Disclosure, as well as the IUCN Commission
on Ecosystem Management, Species Survival Commission, and as anactive supporter of the Science Based Targets Network. A professional
ecologist with 20 years in sustainability consulting, working closely withthe finance, extractives, infrastructure, and food and agricultureindustries.

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