Kim Neale, Conservation Finance & Ecological Economics Practitioner | Nature-Based Solutions Champion | Indigenomics & Regenerative Economies Advocate
Vice President Resilient Habitats at WWF-Canada
Kim leads WWF-Canada’s Resilient Habitats team, which is focused on increasing large landscape and seascape protections from coast to coast to coast by applying Indigenous knowledge and western research methods to achieve resilient ecosystem outcomes that support people and nature.
As an Indigenous rights, conservation finance and environmental risk practitioner, Kim is passionate about supporting Indigenous-led protection and conservation priorities. She spent more than 10 years in the finance and insurance industry, designing some of Canada’s first restoration bonds and other products that have supported small- and large-scale conservation efforts.
Kim has a degree in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph and several professional designations in greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting, energy management, finance, and insurance. On her mother’s side, Kim has mixed settler, Anishinaabe and Métis heritage and currently resides on Manidoo Minising (Manitoulin Island) with her partner, where she volunteers locally to support conservation and youth engagement in climate change and food security issues.
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