Johanna von Braun

Johanna spent the last 20 years working on the interface between biodiversity, climate change and human rights. Within that time she helped set up Natural Justice, now one of the leading environmental justice organizations on the African continent, and served as it’s first Executive Director. Since leaving Natural Justice she has been consulting in the philanthropic sector, including for the Open Society Foundations and ClimateWorks Foundation, with a focus on different aspects of climate change.

Johanna has a BA Hons in Development Studies from the University of Sussex, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a PhD in Law from Queen Mary College, University of London. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and three children.