Genevieve Bennett leads Forest Trends’ communications team, where she is responsible for developing and executing outreach strategies in support of Forest Trends’ organizational and fundraising goals. Genevieve works to advance Forest Trends’ mission through creative, content-driven communications, meaningful engagement of our coalitions of partners and thought leaders in the field, and strengthened internal capacity for communications.

Genevieve has expertise in environmental markets and finance, and has written extensively for Forest Trends and trade and academic publications including Environmental Finance magazine, Civil Engineering, and Nature, on topics including biodiversity finance, natural infrastructure, eco-entreprenuership, strategies for scaling public and private conservation investments, and other market cross-cutting issues. Prior to joining Forest Trends she managed a demand assessment project for the Willamette Partnership in Oregon, and has also held positions with the Breakthrough Institute, the NYC Commission to the United Nations, and NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from New York University.