Amrei VON HASE

Amrei is an ecologist with a PhD from the University of Cape Town. Between 2009 and 2019 she was the Science Lead for the international multi-stakeholder Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme (BBOP), hosted by Forest Trends, where she led the scientific development of BBOP’s widely regarded work on best practice in the mitigation hierarchy and achieving no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity or a net gain (NG). To ground this in practical experiences, she has worked closely with private and public sector development projects (e.g. infrastructure, mining), and with financial institutions and governments across the world. Amrei continues offering specialist advice in this field, working across policy and practice. In 2022 Amrei joined the Wildlife Conservation Society as Programme Director, leading an international team and teams in six countries in Africa and Asia in implementing the Conservation, Mitigation and Biodiversity Offsets (COMBO) Programme, funded by the Agence Française de Développement and the Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial. She is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and is a Co-Chair of the IUCN Thematic Group Impact Mitigation and Ecological Compensation (IMEC).