Kerry ten Kate

Kerry ten Kate is a visiting professor in practice at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and a non-executive director at Finance Earth. She chairs the Strategic Advisory Group on Nature Investment Standards for the British Standards Institution and is a member of the RSPB’s England Advisory Committee. She is a member of the Aldersgate Group, of IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystems Management and a Conservation Fellow at the Zoological Society of London. She is a founding investor in, and serves on the Advisory Committee for, Lyscombe National Nature Reserve.

Background

Kerry was on the board of Natural England, served on the Natural Capital Committee and was a trustee of the RSPB, where she chaired the Conservation Committee. Kerry established and for fifteen years directed the Business & Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP): 100 companies, banks, government agencies, NGOs and experts worldwide working for ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’ through avoidance and minimisation of impacts and finally biodiversity offsets.
Formerly a barrister in London, Kerry served on the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 (the “Rio Earth Summit”) and was Director of Investor Responsibility at asset manager Insight Investment.

Research Interests

• Integration of the natural environment into economic decision-making
• Just transition to a net zero and nature positive economy
• Multiple land-use planning and blended finance at the regional scale to achieve environmental and economic targets.
• Good governance of environmental markets