THE STORY

The Landbanking Group is the culmination of a lifetime of work by its founders, Sonja and Martin Stuchtey.

Sonja is the established technology investor and social entrepreneur behind the educational initiative “ScienceLab”, and the pro-democracy platforms Alliance4Europe and Disarm. Martin is a former Senior and Managing Partner of McKinsey & Co. where he led the global sustainability activities, the founder of the systems change company SYSTEMIQ, and professor for industrial systems in transition at Innsbruck University.

Parents to six children, Sonja's and Martin's personal journey has given them the reason and the expertise - in resource economics, societal change and technology. But it was their role as owners of an organic family farm in Austria that gave them the inspiration behind The Landbanking Group. As they watched the area surrounding their farm slowly degrading by unsustainable land-use practices, the couple came to a profound conclusion—the only way to protect nature is to give it identity and a value.

Our Team

The people breaking the status quo

Martin and Sonja started the work. But The Landbanking Group is the result of many. It convenes a fast-moving and passionate team of leading scientists, technologists and economists, developing Nature Equity solutions that can change the way we make land use decisions - every day, everywhere, all over the planet.

Founders

Prof. Dr. Martin Stuchtey

Science

Gordon Lawrence
Ahmed Fuad
Simon Marggraf
Maryn van der Laarse
Benjamin Leutner
Maarten Nieber
Nafiseh Kakhani
Jascha Muller
Hossein Zare

Tech

Mário Lameiras
Brighton Ngema
Eugene Dorfling
Gareth Priede
Priyanka Kanade
Tshepo Nkuna
Tanvi Bhardwaj
Pablo Fernandez
Pranesh Krishnamurthy
Devendra Dora
Rutha Prasad
Stefanie Strifert

Sales

Katarina Furlan
Sophie van Berchem
Henrike Rädler
Elle Arbury
Benedict Witte
Lia Andras
Maria Koppatz
Elisabeth Thouet
Lena Luepken
Peenaz Aspi Irani
Jamie Batho
Robert Powell
Tobias Bandel

Communications

Naoko Brückner
Nicola Maglio

Institutional Excellence and Growth

Cadi Fester
Leigh Attwood-Smith
Dr. Fidelis Stuchtey
Victor Mancilla
Layla Kader
Ruth Hütte
Robinson Wollersheim

Advisors

Stefan Brunzel
Katharina Schüller
Christina Domecq
Michael Braungart
Christopher Schütz
Michael Obersteiner
Helen Crowley
Alexa Firmenich
Musonda Kapena
Elvira Lefting
Felipe Fernandez
Frauke Fischer
David Tepper
Liliana Martinez
Frank Thiele
Elisabeth Seeger
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