Neil is a Director at Daemeter, where he leads cross-cutting strategic engagements across the firm’s land-use sector portfolio for government, development agency, private sector, and NGO clients. His work bridges sustainability strategy, sustainable finance and investment readiness, responsible supply chains, landscape and jurisdictional governance, and the kind of stakeholder facilitation that turns commitments into measurable outcomes.

With around 30 years of experience, he brings deep expertise in forestry, agriculture, and conservation. He advises on investment screening and ESG due diligence, supports investors and operators in moving from risk identification to risk-managed delivery, and contributes to regional development planning and corporate sustainability transformation. He is skilled at designing and leading complex, multi-party programmes where evidence, learning, and accountability need to be built into the architecture from the outset. He has served as a senior advisor to both the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development, and has worked extensively across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar.

Neil is motivated by work that moves from debate to delivery, particularly where environmental, social, and commercial interests need to be bridged at landscape and jurisdictional scale. Before Daemeter, he spent over a decade leading field-based conservation programmes in collaboration with government and held a senior sustainability executive role within a major Indonesian forestry corporation.

He holds a PhD in Conservation Management from the University of York and a BA in Applied Biology with Anthropology from the University of Oxford. A GRI certified sustainability reporter, he is a native English speaker and fluent in Bahasa Indonesia. When he is not at work, Neil is most likely on a trail run, out on the water sailing, or under it scuba diving.