Matt Smith
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Matt is an ecologist with 20 years’ experience undertaking nature related projects throughout Europe, Africa and Latin America. His work involves applying natural capital and integrated capitals thinking to inform socio-economic development, sustainable use of natural resources and implementing nature-based solutions.
For over a decade he worked as a technical advisor to UK Government on biodiversity and natural capital, with an international portfolio. This included being a principal investigator on a UK government initiative using trade data to develop metrics and impact models for monitoring the UK environmental footprint from resource extraction overseas. He also co-led (until 2020) the Ecosystem Service Partnership Sectoral Working Group on Business and Ecosystem Services and contributed to the biodiversity supplement of the Natural Capital Protocol.