Greta is an international consultant and environmentalist specialising in wildlife crime, conservation strategy, and socio-environmental justice. She currently serves as Lead, Partnerships & Coalition Building at Daughters for Earth, advancing alliances and resourcing pathways for women-led climate and nature solutions.
With 15+ years advising governments and international organisations, her work spans political ecology, nature-based solutions, ending the illegal wildlife trade, and fostering human–wildlife coexistence. She also brings a long-standing focus on the gendered dynamics of organised criminal networks—using a systems lens to translate complexity into more equitable, practical conservation reform. From 2014–2024, Greta led programme development and human–elephant conflict work across 25 African member states with the Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation.
Passionately advocating against historical patterns of accumulation and dispossession in rural communities, especially women and girls, Greta stands firm in hoping to break barriers and move away from dominant and often ineffective conservation structures and instead cultivate scalable systems which dismantle deeply engrained forms of spatial injustice for both people and wildlife.
In an age of climate collapse, she believes restoring gender balance, ownership, and the sacred values attached to the living and spiritual worlds can help redefine how we map our sense of belonging, responsibility, and kinship to place, ancestors, one another, and the many species we share the planet with.
She is an active member of the IUCN Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Specialist Group, a founding fellow and delivery team member for Women for the Environment Africa, and part of the “Matriarchy” of the Great Elephant Migration. She continues to shape global conservation dialogues and practices, championing trauma-informed, compassionate and systemic transformation to enable socio-environmentally just and climate resilient future for all living things.
