Christine Carey is an expert on the environment and corporate social responsibility. She specializes in sustainable forest management and finance issues:

• Most recently investigated the potential links between expansion of agricultural commodities and deforestation

• Working with the World Bank and a number of NGOs, managed the development of financial safeguards for investment in operations that impact forests, in order to reshape what development banks and other finance professionals believe relevant to their fiduciary duty

• Working with WWF International, examined the funding and wood supply sources for a number of large-scale greenfield pulp mill projects in Eastern Europe and South America

• In 2002, worked with IUCN’s, Business Unit on a range of projects including an assessment of the biodiversity robustness of sustainable forestry certification, biodiversity plans for business, and the IUCN, WBCSD and Earthwatch 'Business and Biodiversity Handbook for Corporate Action'

• In 2000, co-authored a book, “Squandering Paradise” on the increasing threats to protected areas

• In 1999, co-authored a report with Innovest Strategic Value Advisors for WWF International on financial investment in the forest industry comparing certified and non-certified forest revenues

• From 1997-1999, worked in the research programme of the New Academy of Business in London, an NGO set up by Anita Roddick to assist business and organizational leaders with the emerging challenges of corporate social responsibility

Christine has a Masters Degree in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge, and has worked in Europe, Africa, and Canada.