Global Advisor, Angela Wright Bennett Foundation.

Dr. Crowley has a 30+ year career underpinning her global expertise in biodiversity across public and private sectors designing and implementing nature based and natural climate solutions, nature/biodiversity business strategy, investment and financing opportunities for impact. Her professional work spanned over a decade on conservation strategy and programs with Wildlife Conservation Society in Africa and Madagascar, a decade building corporate sustainability leadership with the luxury group, Kering, and most recently leading the nature focus across all sectors as Managing Director at the advisory and investment firm, Pollination. She now focuses her efforts more broadly as a global advisor to companies and investors guiding the development and implementation of their strategies and initiatives to align with the transition to Nature Positive and Net Zero and to contribute to building an economy thriving within the safe operating space for humanity. Dr. Crowley also dedicates time to teaching, writing and presenting to build awareness on ways of integrating nature into design and business. To this end she presents often in global fora, podcasts and online courses, co-produced a short documentary film and was noted as one of the top 52 ‘newsmakers’ in Australia in 2022. She is a non-executive Director on the Board of NatureHelm, advisor to the VC company Alante Capital and contributes to the Advisory Boards of the non-profit organizations Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, Textile Exchange, Capitals Coalition, Savory Foundation and Governance for Tomorrow. She is also a mentor and advisors to ‘nature-tech start-ups’ and innovators through Superorganism and Sustainabelle Advisory. She has a PhD in Zoology/Ecology from the Australian National University, has led research expeditions with the Australian Antarctic Expeditions to the Sub-Antarctic and the National Geographic Society in Madagascar. She was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre National from the President of Madagascar for services to the country.