Leila Pankhurst

Leila Pankhurst

Researcher

Email: [email protected]

Leila is a Researcher in the Corporate Performance Programme, working to understand companies and financial institutions’ policies and actions on deforestation and associated human rights abuses.

Prior to joining Global Canopy, Leila spent several years working in carbon markets, and brings to the team experience working on forest carbon & biodiversity, REDD+, and nature finance. Leila also holds an MScRes in Forestry from Bangor University, specialising in Jurisdictional REDD+ and deforestation modelling.