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
Dr. Sonja Stuchtey

Science

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

Tech

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

Sales

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

Communications

Naoko Brückner
Nicola Maglio

Institutional Excellence and Growth

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

Advisors

Felipe Fernandez
Stefan Brunzel
Frauke Fischer
Frank Thiele
Holger Wohlenberg
Christina Domecq
Elvira Lefting
Liliana Martinez
Alexa Firmenich
Musonda Kapena
Katharina Schüller
Elisabeth Seeger
David Tepper
Helen Crowley
Christopher Schütz
Michael Braungart
Michael Obersteiner
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We never settle for status quo.
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