LENs central team

George is the UK Senior Manager for Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs). He oversees the delivery of LENs in established regions and leads expansion into new parts of the UK, while designing the systems that underpin the programme.

Since facilitating the first trade in the East of England, George has helped the network scale across Yorkshire and into emerging regions in Scotland and Wales. His work spans the entire supply chain – from engaging with farmers and traders as they transition to regenerative agriculture, to building relationships with funding partners in the agri-food, utilities and finance sectors, strengthening business resilience and delivering measurable environmental benefits. He also keeps a close watch on trends in UK agriculture and on evolving monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) standards and frameworks.

Prior to LENs, George was a Senior Consultant at 3Keel, working with FMCG, retail and other corporate clients on carbon footprinting, target-setting, climate-risk assessment and disclosure, finding that many landscape challenges converged on the LENs model. He holds an MPhil in Environmental Policy and a BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

Emilien is Strategy Director at Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs), a programme that funds regenerative agriculture at scale, developed by sustainability consultancy, 3Keel.

He is also a co-founder of the Carbon Accounting Alliance, a non-profit with over 750 members in 60 countries, where he brings urgency and collaboration to solve the climate crisis.

Previously, he has held leadership and commercial positions across carbon emissions management, supply chain transparency and tech start-ups.

He was most recently the UK MD for ClimatePartner (advisory & solution provider), where he grew the business 10x in 4 years to become a major player in the climate space. He started his career in venture capital at Crowdcube (investment crowdfunding platform, backed by Balderton Capital, Numis and DFJ).

He holds a BSc Financial Economics at City St George’s, University of London and a Business Sustainability Management certificate from University of Cambridge. He is passionate about rewilding, food and community.

As a Senior Analyst, Ifeoma leads data management and carbon accounting for LENs MRV, ensuring that sustainability metrics are robust, fit for purpose, and aligned with evolving standards. She is responsible for processing annual MRV data and works closely with the Trade Teams to ensure the metrics underpin credible, scalable outcomes across LENs regions. Her work also supports the development of protocols for monitoring, reporting, and verifying impacts related to carbon, soil health, biodiversity, and other environmental indicators.

Before joining 3Keel, Ifeoma worked as a Senior Soil Researcher on projects focused on carbon removal technologies such as biochar and enhanced weathering. She holds a PhD in Geosciences from the University of Edinburgh, where she specialised in land-based climate mitigation strategies. With over 10 years of experience in soil science and sustainability, she brings a strong blend of academic expertise and applied research to her role in delivering credible and actionable MRV outcomes for LENs.

Donald leads the development of the institutional and governance frameworks for LENs, to provide the foundations that will allow LENs to grow and expand, with new partners and in new geographies.

With a background in Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture, Donald started his career in research, before working in International Development for 20 years, managing and delivering diverse programmes in climate policy, agriculture and forestry with partners around the world.

Hugo is a Programme Manager in the LENs delivery team. He works across the UK and European regions on trade delivery and process design, including proposal allocations, contracting and verification of practice delivery.

Before he joined LENs, Hugo worked for Agreena as a UK account manager, working with farmers to aid their transition to regenerative agriculture. Before Agreena, Hugo spent four years producing Climate Summits at the COPs and Climate Weeks, with a focus on sustainable agri-food chains.

Hugo also co-manages a 600ac arable farm in South Essex and has a degree in Biology from Newcastle University.

Chris is a Senior Consultant in the LENs team, focussing on developing robust systems, processes and governance structures centrally that enable the implementation and scaling-up of existing and new LENs regions. Additionally, Chris is pursuing the expansion of the LENs model into urban/peri-urban contexts.

Chris is an experienced consultant specialising in climate change and sustainable development. He has worked with public and private sector stakeholders to deliver impact in complex systems and contexts. Prior to 3Keel, Chris worked in international development for 13 years where he established and managed projects addressing: mainstreaming climate change into social safety net programmes; water resource governance; natural disaster risk reduction; marine plastic litter and terrestrial waste management. Additionally he supported the implementation local and national level climate change mitigation and adaptation policy. Prior to that, Chris gained experience as a Sustainabilty Officer in a large UK Local Authority.

Alan is the EU Senior Manager in the Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) business unit. He is responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of the LENs programme in Hungary, Poland and Italy. In this role, he works closely with clients, in-country project teams and farmers to fund, implement and monitor regenerative agriculture and sustainable land management practices. With a focus on building strong relationships with project partners, Alan has helped to deliver tangible environmental outcomes in the supply chains of clients including Nestlé Purina, Cereal Partners Poland, Diageo Scotland, PepsiCo and the Prosecco Consortium. Alan is keen to increase the scale of LENs activity in the EU, to onboard new businesses and sectors interested in investing in the landscapes they and we all rely on.

Prior to joining 3Keel, Alan completed a MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford, as well as a BA, majoring in Governance, from the University of Freiburg. In recent years he has also worked on his family’s farm in rural Australia and volunteered to rehabilitate native grasslands around his hometown of Canberra.

Will has two roles at LENs: leading fundraising for LENs regions and the LENs Company; and co-ordinating the launch of a new LENs in West Wales.

Will’s background is in supply chain sustainability. He worked at Tesco for 10 years, helping build the responsible sourcing practice there across fresh produce, food manufacturing, commodities and marine. He then ran Community Fair Trade and sustainable sourcing for ingredients at The Body Shop, before moving to Blue Ventures as Conservation Programmes Director in 2018. BV is a UK not-for-profit working with coastal communities to advance local management of natural resources.

Rebecca is the Senior Programme Manager who leads and manages the LENs programme in Yorkshire. Rebecca builds networks and relationships that are crucial to ensuring that the trades that take place are financially and technically sound, delivering real private sector investment into nature-based solutions and regenerative agriculture.

Rebecca works on the LENs programme for three days per week. For the remaining two days, she retains her role as Head of Farming and Land Management at the North York Moors National Park Authority, where she has spent over 25 years working with farmers and land managers on projects that help deliver against the Authority’s statutory purpose to conserve and enhance the natural environment.