Eryn is a New York licensed attorney, who has spent more than a decade combining her interest in the law and finance to combat human rights abuses and environmental degradation. She has worked in the fields of labor rights, business and human rights, anti-corruption, and shareholder advocacy.

Passionate about following the money, dissecting corporate structures, mapping networks and tracing supply chains—the more complex the better – Eryn tells stories that change the corporate behavior and government policies and practices that are essential to making this a more just world.

Her current obsession is ensuring that the financial sector upholds its responsibility to respect human rights and align transition plans to do no harm to the climate and nature in their policies and practices.

As a consultant to human rights and environmental civil society organizations, Eryn is supporting their call upon the world’s largest banks to halt and reverse nature loss and climate change with a rights-based approach. This includes the prioritization of cross-cutting issues like the rights of Indigenous peoples, women, and local communities, and deforestation in sectors that are primary drivers of the earth’s destruction.

Eryn has led a global team of experts to investigate illicit finance coming from the Mekong and flowing to major global economies for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Bangkok. Her research and recommendations are being used to guide global policies and to inform law enforcement agendas.

Her previous work at the internationally renowned investigative NGO Global Witness made headlines in major newspapers and on broadcast media, and included partnerships with ABC News and NBC News.

Eryn serves as a Strategic Advisor to the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC), after transitioning from the Coalition’s Interim Director in 2020. She works with journalists through the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and the Environmental Investigative Forum.

Eryn works proficiently in English and Spanish. She holds a Juris Doctorate degree from New England School of Law and a B.S.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Creighton University. She studied social justice, economic development, and international business in the Dominican Republic and finance in Pacific Asian markets in New Zealand.

Adrien is an expert on climate and environmental justice and works to bridge investigative and action-based research. He has extensive experience developing resources for environmental activists and land rights defenders resisting extractive industry violence, as well as co-developing mapping tools for frontline communities to record local climate change impacts.

His investigative research has exposed widespread greenwashing in the voluntary carbon market, fossil fuel lobbying within Conferences of States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COPs), and human and environmental impacts of the energy transition. Research he has led on or contributed to has featured in the BBC, The Guardian, and NPR, among others.

Adrien has a MSc in International Development from the University of Amsterdam. He's worked with environmental, research, and human rights organizations in Boston, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, and works in English, French, and Spanish.

Coziana is a senior sustainable finance specialist and market practitioner with over 20 years of experience working with the public sector, international development organizations, and financial institutions.

Her areas of expertise range from socio-economic development, conflict risk, and stakeholder engagement to corporate and country sustainability analysis, labeled bonds, governance, and human rights. She led corporate and sovereign sustainability risk assessments at Vigeo Eiris and Moody’s ESG and co-chaired the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data working group for the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA).

Coziana is an independent Board Adviser for the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). She holds a master’s in international trade from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a master’s in political science from the London School of Economics. She works fluently in English, Romanian, and French.

María is a recent law graduate from the Universidad Anáhauc México Norte. She has worked on issues of criminal justice and labor rights with a relentless passion for putting people and the planet first. María is fluent in Spanish and English.

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