Lauren Steensma

Senior Associate

Lauren has four years’ experience working in nature conservation and international development. At Terranomics, she provides research, analysis, and project management support across our portfolio of projects. Lauren focuses on the development of blended private-public finance projects and helps conservation organisations access finance for nature-based solutions. Her work has involved projects in Latin America, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, the UK, and the US.

Prior to Terranomics, Lauren worked with the WWF-US Environmental and Social Safeguards team to implement safeguards into WWF-GEF and WWF-GCF Agency projects.

Lauren has an MA from the University of St Andrews in Sustainable Development and International Relations and an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics.