Michael is an ecohydrologist and water footprint specialist who joined Trase in 2018. He leads Trase's supply-chain mapping team and research on priority agendas. Michael is a member of the Trase Management Team. Before joining Trase, he conducted research in Brazil and studied both water and carbon cycles in natural and agro-ecosystems. Michael holds degrees in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia (BSc, 2002) and Resources, Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia (MSc, 2011; PhD, 2018).

Michael Lathuillière

Argentina: The overlooked hub of South American soy

Chris West

Business & finance

Trase enhances life cycle assessment with ‘commodity supply mix’

Stockholm Environment Institute

André is the Global Engagement Lead at Trase, Global Canopy's supply chain mapping initiative in partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Based in Oxford, UK, André coordinates the team's engagement activities involving dialogue and solutions building with global actors to make agricultural commodity supply chains more sustainable. Over the last five years his work has focused on deforestation and supply chains, with a particular emphasis on the exposure of Chinese and European markets to deforestation and climate impacts.

Helen Bellfield

Toby Gardner

André Vasconcelos

Policy & regulation

EUDR delay: Maintaining momentum towards deforestation-free supply chains

Osvaldo Pereira

Brazil

Mato Grosso's path to net-zero: Tackling pasture degradation for enhanced beef exports

China

Will China take action on imported deforestation?

Erasmus zu Ermgassen

Yuan Zhang 

How Brazil and China can use data for a more sustainable cattle sector

Carina Mueller

Commodity-driven deforestation and peatland loss emits more carbon than Germany

Thomas Sembres

Spotlight on Brazilian soy exports to France

Global Canopy

Engagement

Management

Chris is a research scientist with expertise in ecology, supply chain modelling, and private sector engagement. He joined Trase in 2018 and works in the impact and research teams, leading engagement with the corporate sector. Chris has helped develop models, tools and associated projects at SEI that explore the role of consumption and supply chain activities on environmental degradation and sustainable development. Chris holds a degree in Ecology, Conservation and the Environment (BSc, 2005) and Ecology (PhD, 2010) from the University of York. He works part-time on Trase.

Simon Croft

Jolene Tan

To deliver on sustainable consumption targets, countries must measure their footprints

Reports & case studies

Approaches to assessing commodity-driven deforestation

Mark Titley

Assessing Germany’s soy deforestation risk

Supply chain mapping

Clement is an Earth scientist and software developer who joined Trase in 2015. He is a co-founder of Trase and leads the development team behind Trase's data systems. He developed the first prototype of the Trase Earth platform. Before joining Trase, Clement was a researcher in planetary geophysics. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he developed tools to study the magnetism of extraterrestrial rocks, including lunar samples from the Apollo missions and meteorites. Clement holds degrees in geosciences from Grenoble University (MSc, 2005) and Aix-Marseille University (PhD, 2009).

Data

Erasmus is a scientist studying global food systems. He is based at UCLouvain and since 2018 has been working with the Trase research team to map commodity supply chains and analyse data for priority agendas. Erasmus is a qualified veterinarian and has a PhD on sustainable livestock farming, focusing on the impacts of the cattle ranching and animal feed sectors. Erasmus holds degrees from the University of Cambridge in Veterinary Medicine (MA VetMB, 2013), Food Security (MRes 2014), and Sustainable Livestock Production (PhD, 2018).

Traceability is not a silver bullet for reducing deforestation

James Richens

Valentin Guye

Cocoa traders fall short on supplier disclosure in Ghana

Tiago Reis

Brazilian beef exports and deforestation

Action needed to address indirect sourcing 'blindspot'

Chocolate companies face deforestation risks from unknown cocoa supplies

Mapping cocoa exports from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Coronavirus drives US beef imports from Amazon

Université catholique de Louvain

Helen is a natural scientist and jack of all trades. Helen joined Trase in 2018 and leads the Trase impact team, coordinating content management, engagement with target users and communications. She leads the Trase team at Global Canopy and is a member of the Trase Management Team. Before joining Trase, Helen was Global Canopy's Programme Director and managed a programme on water, energy and food security in Latin America and Indonesia. Helen holds a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (BA, 2010) and captains Global Canopy’s derby winning six aside football team.

Trase urges EU to reject last minute amendments to deforestation regulations

Martin Persson

Chandrakant Singh

DeDuCE: New data to inform action against commodity-driven deforestation

Five ways Trase can and cannot support the EU deforestation regulation

UK unprotected from high levels of deforestation exposure

A double espresso with no deforestation, please

How data can make the EU's deforestation regulation fair and workable

Missing deforestation-risk products undermine EU’s due diligence proposal

Exploring the investor types with most significant levels of deforestation risk exposure

China’s imported deforestation risk from Brazilian beef imports

Jason is a geospatial data specialist and researcher. He started collaborating with Trase in 2018 and works on Indonesian supply chains. Previously, Jason was the Data Analytics and Visualization lead at The Forest Trust (now Earthworm Foundation) focusing on geo-data management, supply chain mapping, and data collection support for field assessments and smallholder engagement. He has broad experience in geospatial data analysis working in the private sector and non-profits in Malaysia and Australia. Jason holds a degree in Remote Sensing from the University of Technology Malaysia (BSc, 2004).

Jason Jon Benedict

Robert Heilmayr

Indonesia

Indonesian palm oil exports and deforestation

Indonesia makes progress towards zero palm oil deforestation

University of California, Santa Barbara

Spatial intelligence

Jonathan is a conservation scientist and joined Trase in 2018. Jonathan works across Trase's impact and research teams mapping commodity supply chains and analysing Trase data for priority agendas. Before joining Trase, Jonathan investigated the ecological impacts of coastal land conversion, worked closely with business and sustainability managers, and researched the impacts of agricultural commodity consumption on biodiversity. Jonathan holds degrees in Zoology from the University of St Andrews (BSc, 2007) and the University of Cambridge (PhD, 2012). Jonathan works part-time on Trase.

Jonathan Green

Mapping the Indonesian shrimp supply chain

Research

Maria is a researcher specialising in commodity supply chains and their social and environmental impacts. She joined Trase in 2017. Maria works across Trase's impact and research teams mapping commodity supply chains and analysing data for key audiences in Latin America. Before joining Trase, she worked as a research assistant for a range of environmental NGOs and academic institutions and completed fieldwork in Brazil’s semi-arid zone. Maria holds degrees in Latin American studies from the University of Liverpool (BA, 2012) and Human Geography from the University of Cambridge (MPhil, 2014).

Maria Tyldesley

Stanislaw Czaplicki Cabezas

Deforestation and climate change threaten Bolivia’s soy sector

Soy expansion drives deforestation in Bolivia

High deforestation risk for beef from the Paraguayan Chaco

Soy deforestation risk in Paraguay continues despite decline

Robert is an interdisciplinary land system scientist with expertise in environmental economics and remote sensing who started collaborating with Trase in 2018. Robert works on supply chain mapping and sustainability research on the Indonesian palm oil and wood pulp sectors and is also a member of the Trase Scientific Advisory Committee. Robert holds a degree in environment, economics and politics from Claremont McKenna College (BA, 2006) and degrees in economics (MA, 2015) and environment and resources (PhD, 2016) from Stanford University.

Rosa is a sustainable trade policy analyst who joined Trase in 2020. Rosa leads on operations and resourcing across the program and is a member of the Trase Management Team. Before joining Trase, Rosa managed sustainable trade and supply chain programs in Latin America, the United States and Southeast Asia. She has a strong background in international trade law and policy. Rosa holds degrees in International/Intercultural Studies and Spanish from Pitzer College (BA, 2011) and a degree in International and Comparative Law from Columbia University (JD, 2014).

Simon is a mathematician and modeller who joined Trase in 2018. He works across Trase's data and research teams mapping commodity supply chains and analysing Trase data for priority agendas and target users. Before joining Trase, Simon worked on global supply chain mapping and consumption based models. He has experience developing and applying methods for quantifying the flows of goods and their associated impacts. Simon holds degrees in Mathematics and Theoretical Ecology from the University of York (MMath, 2006; PhD, 2012). He works part-time on Trase.

Toby is the Co-Director of Trase and supports work across the initiative with a focus on the research and impact agendas. He co-founded Trase in 2014. Between 2015-2019 Toby co-led SEI's global initiative on Producer to Consumer Sustainability. Prior to joining SEI, Toby was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge where he helped found and coordinate the Sustainable Amazon Network, a multi-institutional research network working on sustainable land use in Pará, Brazil. Toby holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh (BSc, 2001) and the University of East Anglia (MSc, 2001; PhD 2007).

Florence Pendrill

Patrick Meyfroidt

Land governance is key to reducing deforestation

Trase data can help tackle global extinction crisis

Valentin is an economist researcher who joined Trase in 2023 and works in the Supply Chain Mapping and Research teams. He is in charge with updating and developing the cocoa supply chain models, in Ivory Coast and Ghana. Before that, Valentin was a PhD student at MCC Berlin and PSAE paris, where he did research on Indonesian palm oil deforestation and on pan-tropical indirect land use change, using econometrics. Valentin holds degrees in economics from Université Paris-Saclay (BSc, 2015; MSc, 2017; PhD, 2022) and in geography from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (cotutelle PhD, 2022).

Smallholder cocoa farmers need support as EUDR compliance nears

Côte d'Ivoire cocoa exports and deforestation

Yani is a low-carbon transition analyst and program manager who joined Trase in 2021. She manages across teams to meet program objectives, engages in policy discussions, and facilitates program development. Before joining Trase, Yani was a policy and program coordinator at UNDP China, working on low-carbon development and global partnerships. She has diverse experience in sustainable finance and international cooperation in East and Southeast Asia. Yani holds degrees in Development Studies from the SOAS University of London (MSc, 2018) and Southeast Asia Studies from the Beijing Foreign Studies University (MA, 2017).

Michael Lathuilliere

Insights by Michael Lathuilliere

Explainer
11 Aug 2022

Argentina: The overlooked hub of South American soy

Explainer
18 Nov 2021

Trase enhances life cycle assessment with ‘commodity supply mix’

Other Team Members

André Vasconcelos

Chris West

Clement Suavet

Erasmus zu Ermgassen

Helen Bellfield

Jason Jon Benedict

Jonathan Green

Maria Tyldesley

Robert Heilmayr

Rosa Indenbaum

Simon Croft

Toby Gardner

Valentin Guye

Yani Wang

Michael Lathuilliere

Insights by Michael Lathuilliere

Explainer11 Aug 2022

Argentina: The overlooked hub of South American soy

Explainer18 Nov 2021

Trase enhances life cycle assessment with ‘commodity supply mix’

Other Team Members

André Vasconcelos

Chris West

Clement Suavet

Erasmus zu Ermgassen

Helen Bellfield

Jason Jon Benedict

Jonathan Green

Maria Tyldesley

Robert Heilmayr

Rosa Indenbaum

Simon Croft

Toby Gardner

Valentin Guye

Yani Wang

Explainer
11 Aug 2022

Explainer
18 Nov 2021