Peter is committed to helping communities access the resources, tools, and information they need to defend their rights, territories, and environment. He has worked for three decades with Indigenous Peoples’ and environmental justice movements around the world. Most recently, he has worked with the Climate and Land Use Alliance, a donor collaborative focused on climate, tropical forests, and community rights. He also served for more than a decade as Vice President and Director of Programs of Global Greengrants Fund, where he managed participatory grantmaking programs reaching communities and grassroots social movements in over 150 countries and expanded grantmaking to indigenous Peoples’ organisations and at the intersections of environment justice with youth, women and persons with disability. As Co-Director of the Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin he coordinated campaigns for Indigenous Peoples’ territorial and consultative rights and inclusion in international policy processes, as well as organised international conferences and exchanges for Amazonian Indigenous Peoples on community mapping, extractive industries, and defence of territory. As a consultant, he has advised the MacArthur Foundation, Rights and Resources Initiative, World Resources Institute, WWF, and USAID on program development, grantmaking, and building equitable partnerships with Indigenous Peoples’ organisations. He is the founder of Just Planet Consulting and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Awana Digital and the Guiding Committee of the Environmental Defenders Collaborative. He holds a BA from Harvard University and a MESc from the Yale School of the Environment. Peter lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Tony joined the Tenure Facility Fund in July 2024 as the CFO/COO “Chief Financial Officer/ Chief Operations Officer” after working in a consultant capacity. Prior to joining TFF, he worked for Global Greengrants Fund as Vice President and CFO/COO, and guided the organisation through multiple years of austerity, the covid pandemic, and a period of significant growth. The core responsibilities as the CFO/COO are to lead the financial and operational needs of TFF, development of banking and investment relationships, support the strategic development in cooperation with members of Tenure Facility, and other funds or partners, and oversight of the financial, managerial and regulatory reporting requirements. Tony brings over 30 years of financial management experience and leadership which includes the financial services sector, Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSE), nonprofit sector, and public municipalities. Tony is a native of Colorado and graduated with a BS degree in Business Administration – Finance from University of Northern Colorado. He earned his MS degree in Business Administration from Colorado State University. Tony is married and has three children.

Christine Halvorson is the Program Director of Rainforest Foundation US. She oversees the organization's program portfolio working closely with partners in the Amazon and Central America and brings extensive expertise in institutional strengthening, land management planning and titling, policy and campaigning. Prior to joining RFUS in 1999, she was a director of Amanaka’a Amazon Network. She has worked on issues connecting the environment and social justice for nearly thirty years, both in the Amazon as well as locally in New York City where she serves on the board of ABC No Rio, a cultural center in the Lower East Side. She holds a Master’s in Anthropology from The New School for Social Research. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and rusty French.

Carl is an independent economic advisor. He grew up outside Gothenburg and studied Forestry and Business at university. Later on, he moved to Stockholm and started on what was intended to be a short period at KPMG and stayed for over 30 years ending as chairman. He has an MBA from Warwick University and a bachelor’s degree in geosciences, and an on-going master’s studies in Hydrology as well as Climate Change at Stockholm University. After leaving KPMG in 2013 he directed his efforts into trying to pay back to a world, which involves everything from global issues (climate change, children's rights, etc.) to individual projects (a school in Tanzania, mentorship etc.)

Juan Martinez, Social Practice Leader (SPL) at the Environmental and Social Solutions Unit (ESG) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) where he is leading the Social Sustainability Standards such as indigenous peoples, stakeholders engagement among others for projects and programs that the IADB finances. Prior to his role as Social Practice Leader (SPL), Juan worked at the World Bank for more than twenty years in multiple regions of the world as a Senior Social Development Specialist these included East Asia and the Pacific; Southeast Asia, Africa (Zimbabwe), Latin America and the Caribbean. During his career he carried out multiple field assignments working close to clients in Indonesia, Central America, and Mexico. In this role he was responsible for leading the practical implementation of social inclusion schemes by identifying ways to ensure the full participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in the development processes. Juan has led multiple land and community forestry projects, also worked in multiple other sectors around the world that promote the participation of indigenous peoples and local communities by addressing the fundamental rights to their territories, forests and natural resources.

Nonette is a lawyer, and a specialist in Indigenous Peoples, land rights, environment, and natural resources management. Most of her work has been in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, especially in Indonesia, Philippines, Mekong region and Melanesia. Her experience spans for more than 30 years and includes nearly a decade advising the Global Greengrants Fund, several USAID and DFID-UK Natural Resource and Community. Nonette is a lawyer, and a specialist in Indigenous Peoples, land rights, environment, and natural resources management. Most of her work has been in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, especially in Indonesia, Philippines, Mekong region and Melanesia. Her experience spans for more than 30 years and includes nearly a decade advising the Global Greengrants Fund, several USAID and DFID-UK Natural Resource and Community. Nonette currently serves as Tenure Facility's executive director.