James ALLEN

James Allen is director and co-founder of Olab, a Brazilian organization seeking to address climate challenges linked to forests and food systems. Olab has been leading the facilitation of multi-stakeholder solutions for addressing commodity-driven deforestation, and the development of public policies for forest restoration and the bioeconomy.  
In addition, James holds the position of co-chair of the Global Task Force on Vegetable Oils and has previously worked as the Brazil country representative for Fauna & Flora International, and has worked for both the Brazilian and UK governments in Africa. 
James has a political science degree from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil. in Development Studies from the University of Sussex.