Benjamin Simmons, TEEB Coordinator
Benjamin Simmons is an international lawyer specializing in the interaction between environmental and economic law and policy. In addition to his overall responsibility for TEEB management and implementation, he is the Head of the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit in the Economics and Trade Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In this capacity, he is responsible for guiding the policy work for UNEP's Green Economy Initiative and implementing UNEP's trade programme.

Benjamin serves as the principal UNEP representative in the World Trade Organization’s trade and environment negotiations. Prior to joining UNEP in 2003, Benjamin worked as an environmental lawyer for a private law firm in New York City. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Before entering law school, Benjamin worked for two years on agricultural and forestry projects as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in southern Senegal.
To contact Benjamin email: benjamin.simmons[at]unep.org

Georgina Langdale, Communications Consultant
Georgina Langdale has over twenty years experience in international marketing and communications and media.  Her previous experience includes managing marketing and communications across the EMEA region for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, the country’s economic development agency.  She has also run a PR agency in London specialising in international cultural and media promotion, where her clients included Japan, Brazil, Russia and major cultural institutions in the United Kingdom.

She has worked as a producer, publicist and writer for television and radio in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.  Before joining TEEB, she was Head of Corporate Engagement and acting chief executive of the Kew Foundation for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Georgina was TEEB's communications manager and based at the TEEB Central Office in Bonn for two years. She now continues to manage TEEB's communications activity in Phase III as a consultant based in New Zealand. 
To contact Georgina email: georgina.langdale[at]unep.org

Nick Bertrand, Networks Coordinator
Nick Bertrand has worked on green economy issues, with a particular focus on biodiversity, since early 2009 as Economic Affairs Officer at UNEP. Previously, Nick managed the business engagement portfolio at the (UNEP administered) Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal.  Prior to joining UNEP, Nick worked on economics and business at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) where he helped establish the first programme on business and biodiversity. As part of this endeavour, he co-authored the IUCN Strategy for business engagement.  He was contributing editor of Business and Biodiversity: A Handbook for Corporate Action, published on the occasion of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (2002) and a co-editor of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise (2011). Nick obtained a BSc(Econ) and MSc(Econ) from University College London and an MPhil from the Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (Paris).
to contact Nick email: Nicolas.bertrand[at]unep.org

Mouhamed Diallo, Administration Officer
Mouhamed Diallo holds a Masters in Business Development from HEC Geneva and a Bachelor degree in Economics. He is managing TEEB's administrative and financial tasks. Prior to joining UNEP, Mouhamed worked as a marketing officer for the first African financial newspaper.  
To contact Mouhamed Diallo, please e-mail mouhamed.diallo[at]unep.org

Anita Beck, Communications Assistant
Anita Beck has been working in Science Communication for the last nine years, specializing in communicating environmental science since 2007. Anita has a lot of experience in web communication having been an interactive content developer for BBC online projects. Prior to joining UNEP, Anita worked as a communications consultant at several other UN organizations. Anita holds a BSc in Chemistry, a BA in Linguistics and a Masters in Science Communications.
To contact Anita email: anita.beck[at]unep.org

Asad Naqvi, Studies Coordinator
Asad Naqvi is responsible for supporting national and regional level TEEB activities. He has 15 years experience of policy research and advice, programme and project management and coordinating inter-agency initiatives. At UNEP, in addition to his work on agriculture and green economy, Asad is responsible for managing national scoping studies of trade in biodiversity products in Nepal, Namibia and Peru.

Before joining TEEB, Asad managed agriculture and poverty related work for the Green Economy Initiative and served as coordinator of UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF) where he played a key role in managing Wildlife Trade Policy Reviews in Uganda, Viet Nam, Nicaragua and Madagascar.

Prior to joining UNEP in 2004, Asad worked as programme advisor for UNDP’s Regional Governance Programme for Asia, and as a researcher and policy advisor on a wide range of issues including poverty-environment nexus, indigenous people’s rights in national parks, and establishing poverty baselines. Asad holds a Masters degree in Environment, Development and Policy from University of Sussex, UK and a Masters of Science degree in International Relations from Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan.
To contact Asad email: asad.naqvi[at]unep.org

Jasmin Hundorf, Intern (Carlo-Schmid Fellow)
Jasmin Hundorf holds a Master’s Degree in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) from the University of Barcelona, an LL.M. (cum laude) in European Law from Maastricht University and a B.A. in Political Science and Law from the University of Muenster. She joined the UNEP TEEB team as a Carlo-Schmid Fellow. Jasmin first got involved in TEEB working as an intern at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment in 2009.
To contact Jasmin email: jasmin.hundorf[at]unep.org