Lucy Emerton

Lucy Emerton is an environmental economist specialising in ecosystem valuation, and the design and development of conservation finance and incentive mechanisms. She is currently Economics and Finance Director of the Environment Management Group, a consultancy group and think-tank. Over the last 30 years she has been working as a technical and policy advisor for various government, non-government, United Nations and private sector organisations across more than 70 countries worldwide, including DFID, GIZ, UNDP, UNEP, the World Bank, WCS, WWF, UNDP, UNEP and the African Wildlife Foundation. Between 1998 and 2008, she established and led environmental economics programmes for IUCN (the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) in Africa, Asia and at the global level.