Natural Capital Conference 2025

Antonin Vergez

Senior Expert for Natural Resources Economics, IUCN

Antonin Vergez joined IUCN in June 2021 as a Senior Expert on Natural resources economics to be part of the Economic Knowledge Unit. He is working on several themes such as BIODEV2030 project, the STAR metric, environmental accounting approaches, the CBD post 2020 framework as well as on the trade and deforestation and harmful subsidies issues.

Website : IUCN

Alexander Venn

Team Leader & Coral Physiology Team, Centre Scientifique de Monaco

Website : Le centre

Blue Alliance

Website : Blue Alliance Marine Protected Areas

Camille Maclet

Natural Capital & Biodiversity Lead, BNP Paribas

Camille Maclet is the Group Expert on Biodiversity and Natural Capital at BNP Paribas. His focus is to propose and implement BNP Paribas’s strategy on nature, across business entities, from a business opportunities perspective as well as through a risks and impacts lens. In 2022-2023, he was the Finance Sector Engagement Lead for the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). He was also Advisor to the co-Chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Ms Elizabeth Mrema. Camille Maclet worked 15 years in sustainability consultancy to public developments banks, private financial institutions, and investors, in a range of economic sectors and geographies. From 2012 to 2020, he was the Partner-in-charge of Sustainable Finance Advisory with Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in France.

Website : « La crise de la biodiversité modifie rapidement les territoires dans lesquels nous évoluons » - BNP Paribas

Sana Ben Abdallah

Associate Professor - FSEG Sfax and Adjunct Professor - SKEMA BS Paris

Céline Le Bohec

Polar biologist, Centre Scientifique de Monaco

Robert-Alexandre Poujade

ESG Analyst & Biodiversity Lead, BNP Paribas

Pauline Blandin

Investment Director - Impact Investment, BNP Paribas Asset Management

She worked for 10-years in CIB Commodities Financing activities, throughout different positions (Credit Analysis, Structuring and Coverage – Relationship Management) in Brazil for 4 years, in the US for 3 years and, since 2018 in Paris, with a specific focus on tropical agri-commodities and energy structured financing.

From 2020 to 2022 Pauline worked for BNPP’s Sustainable Finance team, in charge of structuring and promoting sustainability-linked loans, social and green loans for large corporate clients in EMEA – with a continued focus on food & agri-chains and natural capital themes, but also on specific industries such as shipping. 

Since 2022 Pauline joined BNPP AM Private Assets – Ecological Transition & Impact team and currently works as Investment Director in the Impact Investment team dedicated to investing (both equity / Venture Capital and debt) an envelope of 200m€ (on BNPP’s own account) in start-ups and projects around 3 impact areas: Social Impact, Natural Capital, Local Development & Climate Change

Website : (55) Pauline Blandin | LinkedIn

Pinar Deniz

Assoc. Prof. Dr. , Marmara University

Pinar Deniz joined the Department of Economics at Marmara University in 2016. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Marmara University in 2014. Her area of expertise is applied macroeconomics.

She is the editor of Journal of Research in Economics. Some of her articles have been published in journals such as Economics Letters, Regional Studies, Empirical Economics, European Journal of Political Economy.

Victoria Leccia

ESG expert, Oceans, Chemicals and Coal Power, BNP Paribas