Tim Christophersen

CEO

Give, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark19 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of public service in climate action.
Leading sustainability initiatives at Salesforce.
Expert in nature-based solutions and ecosystem management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action.

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Skills

Core Skills

Climate ChangeSustainabilityNatural Resource ManagementEnvironmental PolicyEnvironmental ManagementBiodiversity

Other Skills

Nature-based solutionsStakeholder EngagementDeforestation reductionForest degradationCoordinationWater managementClimate adaptationEcosystem resilienceIntegrated landscape managementForestryAgricultureBiodiversity coordinationSustainable useEU donor liaisonProgramme coordination

About

After 20 years of public service to trigger climate & nature action, I made a career shift in May 2022, and joined the private sector. The world now has the scientific knowledge and a growing body of regulation and policies to trigger a massive transformation of the entire world economy. The sustainability revolution is here! And hopefully just in time. We must scale up existing and new climate solutions across the world, and that requires the scale and speed of the private sector. We need the innovation, financial muscle, entrepreneurship and the sheer force of hundreds of thousands of experts for the just transition to a net zero, nature positive world. It is the defining challenge of our time, and business is one of the greatest platforms for change. With the trusted relationship that Salesforce has with our 200,000+ corporate and public sector customers across the world, we can trigger change well beyond our own company. Join the sustainability revolution!

Experience

United nations

Member of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Advisory Board

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Nairobi County, Kenya · Remote

Salesforce

Vice President, Climate Action

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Denmark · Remote

VP, Climate Action. Focusing on nature-based solutions. Climate change is the most urgent threat humanity is facing today. The time for change is now! Salesforce and its 200,000+ customers have a responsibility to reach net zero & become nature positive. My role within the Sustainability team is to empower Salesforce team & customers to make the right choices for nature, climate & people, and invest in high quality, high integrity nature-based solutions.

BiodiversityClimate ChangeSustainabilityNature-based solutionsStakeholder Engagement

United nations environment programme

4 roles

Head, Nature for Climate Branch, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Jan 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Coordinate the UNEP team of the UN-REDD Programme, with the aim to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries

Deforestation reductionForest degradationCoordinationNatural Resource ManagementEnvironmental Policy

Head of Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch

Sep 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Coordinating the work of an excellent team to ensure that present and future generations have clean water to drink; healthy landscapes and forests to grow our food and sustain wildlife; and resilient societies and ecosystems that can adapt in time to the impacts of climate change.

Water managementClimate adaptationEcosystem resilienceEnvironmental ManagementSustainability

Chief, Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit

Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs

Leading the work of UN Environment on forests, agriculture and integrated landscapes management, and leading the UN-REDD programme for UNEP (www.un-redd.org)

Integrated landscape managementForestryAgricultureNatural Resource ManagementSustainability

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

May 2007 – Sep 2012 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Forest Biodiversity Programme Officer: coordinating the Convention on Biodiversity's Forestry Work Programme and Sustainable Use, including the Liaison Group on Bushmeat. EU donor focal point.

Biodiversity coordinationSustainable useEU donor liaisonBiodiversityEnvironmental Policy

Iucn - the world conservation union

European Programme Coordinator

Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs

Building and coordinating the Pan-European Programme of IUCN (EU, South-Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, and Caucasus), with building out new office presence in Serbia and Georgia.

Programme coordinationConservationBiodiversityEnvironmental ManagementSustainability