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).

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

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

Mark Titley

UK unprotected from high levels of deforestation exposure

Jolene Tan

Business & finance

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

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

Trase enhances life cycle assessment with ‘commodity supply mix’

Supply chain mapping

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

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).

Rosa Indenbaum

Other Team Members

André Vasconcelos

Helen Bellfield

Michael Lathuilliere

Toby Gardner

Yani Wang