… a degree in Sustainable Business. She has experience with internal and external auditing. Makayla is an external …

Ouattara is an agricultural engineer with more than 10 years’ experience in sustainable agriculture, especially in providing technical support for cooperatives and exporters. In 2013, she started working for the Rainforest Alliance business unit, RA-Cert, …

… National University of Agriculture. He has passed the training course for Rainforest Alliance Sustainable …

… Academy of Forestry, she has worked with a number of international NGOs and industry associations working on … accreditation maintenance, and supports implementation of internal quality monitoring of Assurance units. Guangxin is …

Mai has over seven years of experience in the accounting industry. Prior to joining Preferred by Nature, she worked for a Japanese company for six years, which has equipped her professional knowledge, cautiousness, time management skill and to always keep …

Jakob is a member of Preferred by Nature’s executive management group. He is a specialist in Sustainable Tropical Forest Management, including Community Forest Management, Forest Certification, Timber Legality, Agroforestry and Forest Monitoring. He has …

… guidance of Regional Managers, and providing support for training events. She also helps to translate Preferred by …

Leonid graduated from the Forestry Department of Kharkiv National Agricultural University, Ukraine. After graduating from his postgraduate degree at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration, he worked at the institute for more …

Linda provides accounting and financial support to all Preferred by Nature legal entities in Africa. She is a highly organised and seasoned accounting and financial specialist, with more than ten (10) years’ experience working in diverse financial roles …

… began her career in December 2011 after completing her training as a Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified and Cocoa …

She has over 9 years of experience in the financial and administrative management of multinational projects funded under European Commission (FP7, Horizon2020, etc.) and national programmes; supported by more than 15 years of practice in an accounting …

Prior to joining Preferred by Nature, Gabriel worked as a Forest Engineer at the Polytechnical University of Valencia. He had also worked in the Spanish Confederation of Woodworking Industries, from 2009 to 2013. In this role, he provided technical …

Joris has experience with FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody and Forest Management certification with from his earlier career in the Netherlands and Suriname, where he worked with sourcing sustainable timber from South America and with sustainable forest …

James is a Senior Specialist in Forestry with Preferred by Nature and a Registered Professional Forester in Ontario with over 8 years of experience in forest and resource management. James has been with Preferred by Nature since 2020, having completed ISO …

Michal is responsible for planning and conducting Chain of Custody certification assessments. Michal studied Environmental Studies in Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. During his …

Nhi prepares financial statements for Preferred by Nature. Occasionally, she also provides support for projects in Vietnam. Nhi started her career as an internal audit assistant for a building material manufacturer. As she wanted to expand her knowledge …

Violeta has a degree in forest engineering from the Agrarian National University (UNALM) in Perú. She began her career in the Peruvian Forestry Research Institute where she conducted a diversity of studies and monitored plantations and natural forests in …

Marimuthuram began his career working for the USAID Forest PLUS program as a Research Associate. In this role, he travelled extensively in India, having project landscapes in Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, to implement monitoring, …

… Carmen, a biologist by training, is our Senior Lead Auditor with a focus on …

Wendy juggles multiple tasks before the implementation of the audits for the Rainforest Alliance programme which are identifying equipment, arranging the logistics, providing support to the auditors where applicable, and reviewing reports outlining the …