Our Team

CEPF staff at reception for CEPF's 10th anniversary book, "Investing in Life," in Nagoya, Japan

Secretariat

Patricia Zurita
Executive Director

Inês Castro
Senior Program Coordinator

John De Wet
Senior Director for Finance and Information Management

Alison Blank
Grant Coordinator

Laura Johnston
Grant Coordinator

Nina Marshall
Managing Director

Whitney Hodde
Finance Coordinator

Adam Nilsen
Information and Finance Manager

Russell Frandsen
Grant Coordinator

Daniel Rothberg
Grant Director

Emily Rudge
Communications Coordinator

Julie Shaw
Director, Communications

Deborah Rainey
Senior Director, Grants Management Unit

Jack Tordoff
Grant Director

John Watkin
Grant Director

Michele Zador
Grant Director

Pierre Carret
Technical Advisor

Regional focal points

Caribbean Islands
Anna Cadiz, RIT Manager
CANARI
Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies

Eastern Himalayas
Sarala Khaling
Regional Coordinator, CEPF Coordination Unit
WWF-Nepal Programme
Kathmandu, Nepal

Indo-Burma
Jonathan Eames
Head, Regional Implementation Team
BirdLife International in Indochina
Hanoi, Vietnam

Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
Dr. Roelie Kloppers
Project Leader, CEPF-RIT
Wildlands Conservation Trust
KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa

Polynesia-Micronesia
Leilani Duffy
Grant Manager, CEPF Regional Implementation Team
Conservation International Pacific Islands Program
Apia, Samoa

Western Ghats
Bhaskar Acharya
Project Coordinator, CEPF Regional Implementation Team
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Bangalore, India