Christine Carey works in conservation and corporate responsibility. She specializes in sustainable forest management, certification systems and related finance and trade issues.

• In 2008, working with the ISEAL Alliance, a London-based NGO, as Lead Researcher led an international research project on the governmental use of voluntary social and environmental standards.
  
  

• For IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy, she researched and prepared a report involving over 120 ‘good’ practice social and environmental standards, guidelines, and codes of conduct that have been developed to shape the behaviour of operations that impact on forest landscapes.
  
  

• Working with the World Bank and a number of NGOs, she managed the development of financial safeguards for investment in operations that impact forests, in order to reshape what development banks and other finance professionals believe relevant to their fiduciary duty.
  
  

• Working with WWF International, she examined the funding and wood supply sources for a number of large-scale greenfield pulp mill projects in Eastern Europe and South America.
  
  

• In 2002, she worked with IUCN’s, Business and Biodiversity Unit on a range of projects including: an assessment of the biodiversity robustness of sustainable forestry certification, Biodiversity Plans for Business, and contributed to the IUCN, WBCSD and Earthwatch Business and Biodiversity Handbook for Corporate Action.
  
  

• In 2000, Christine co-authored a book, “Squandering Paradise” on the increasing threats to protected areas and national park management.
  
  

• In 1999, she co-authored a report with Innovest Strategic Value Advisors New York for WWF International on financial investment in the forest industry comparing certified and non-certified forest revenues.
  
  

• From 1997-1999, Christine worked in the research programme of the New Academy of Business in London, an NGO set up by the late Anita Roddick (the founder of The Body Shop) to assist business and organizational leaders with the emerging challenges of corporate social responsibility.

Christine has a Masters Degree in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc Degree in Environmental Studies and Geography from Trent University, Ontario. She has worked in Europe, Africa, and Canada. She was born in Canada and has lived in the UK, Namibia and has been in Switzerland for almost ten years. She is married and has one son.

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