Name
Mark Kenber
Job Title
Executive Director
Company
VCMI
Speaker Bio
Mark serves as Executive Director of the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI), an independent organisation whose mission is to enable high integrity carbon markets.
With a background in development and environmental economics, Mark has worked across various areas of environment and climate policy for over two decades, with a particular focus on the use of economic instruments in the pursuit of sustainable development. He was co-founder of both the Verified Carbon Standard and the Gold Standard.
His previous roles include: Managing Director at Climate Advisers, a Washington DC-based environmental consultancy; Chief Executive of Mongoose Energy Ltd, then the UK’s largest developer and manager of community energy projects; and Chief Executive at international nonprofit The Climate Group.
He serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and is also a board member of Brighton and Hove Energy Services Coop and a member of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Markets.
With a background in development and environmental economics, Mark has worked across various areas of environment and climate policy for over two decades, with a particular focus on the use of economic instruments in the pursuit of sustainable development. He was co-founder of both the Verified Carbon Standard and the Gold Standard.
His previous roles include: Managing Director at Climate Advisers, a Washington DC-based environmental consultancy; Chief Executive of Mongoose Energy Ltd, then the UK’s largest developer and manager of community energy projects; and Chief Executive at international nonprofit The Climate Group.
He serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and is also a board member of Brighton and Hove Energy Services Coop and a member of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Markets.