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

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

Tech

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

Sales

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

Communications

Naoko Brückner
Nicola Maglio

Institutional Excellence and Growth

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

Advisors

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