Jane Carter is Senior Adviser on Natural Resource Governance at Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation.

Since 2020, she is responsible for the Helvetas portfolio on natural resource governance – promoting the sustainable, socially inclusive management of forests, biodiversity, and water in a landscape approach; and supporting participatory biodiversity conservation under the Nature Conservation Project, North Macedonia, and the Gulf of Mottama Project, Myanmar (both SDC projects).

Jane provides an on-going contribution to a SECO mandate on Biotrade in the Mekong region and represents Helvetas as a partner of the Rights and Resources Initiative.

Jane is a development professional with over 30 years’ experience of in the non-profit/development sector, combining a practical, ground-based perspective with a strategic, global outlook and an ability to analyze and write clearly.

Nelson Carvalho chaired the twenty-fifth session of ISAR. He is a professor at the School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting of the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He is an advisor on mergers and acquisitions, and a consultant on matters dealing with capital markets, banking, international accounting and auditing. He is a member of various boards of domestic and international banking and non-banking companies in Brazil. Mr. Carvalho is a member of CPC – Brazil’s accounting standards board. He is also a board member of Fundação Amazonas Sustentável (a non-governmental organization which works towards preserving the Amazon forest), and is a member of the International Integrated Reporting Committee of the Accounting for Sustainability project led by the Prince of Wales. He heads several audit committees of listed and non-listed companies. Mr. Carvalho has 25 years of audit experience, and has, in addition, served as a securities commissioner and as a board member of Brazil’s central bank.

Ms. Casado is the Secretary General of the Federation of Mediterranean Certified Accountants (FCM). An independent lawyer registered at the bars of Brussels and Madrid specialising in European Union Law, Ms. Casado has a law degree from the University Complutense of Madrid and a Master’s degree in European affairs and international relations from the I.E.H.E.I in Nice. She also has a PhD degree with distinctions on European Administrative Law from the University Rey Juan Carlos I, Madrid. She moved to Brussels in 2001, and worked as an assistant to a Member of European Parliament. She has also worked for an international law firm specialising in European law, litigation, and also managing capacity building of justice affairs and good governance projects in developing countries. Ms. Casado was appointed Secretary General of the International Association of Paper & Board Converters in Europe (CITPA) in 2008. Finally, she joined the Federation of Mediterranean Certified Accountants (FCM) in September 2014

Sandra Casanova, President of the Territorial Logistics Strategies Commission, Research and Innovation Policy of the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique, chairs the Special Transport Committee of the Association of Caribbean States since 2022.

Holder of a Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Caribbean Maritime University in Jamaica, she was Founder of the GAT CARIBBEAN Logistics and Transport Cluster.

Thanks to its leadership, this cluster has enabled better integration of French outermost regions into the supply chains of the Greater Caribbean.

In 2000, she created her first company in passenger transport.

An active member of WIMAC, Sandra was also President of Martinique Pionnières in 2012, an incubator dedicated to women entrepreneurs. She also sits on the supervisory boards of the Grand Port Maritime de Martinique and the local airport and was a member of the General Council of the Caribbean Shipping Association (CSA).

Kevin Cascella holds a doctorate in marine biology, and has worked for the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) in the fields of seaweed farming, the blue economy and marine biodiversity. He is currently in charge of the environmental affairs at the Comité national de la conchyliculture (French Shellfish farming committee), where he is working on adapting the industry to the challenges due to climate change and environmental constraints.

Daniel Cash is currently a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United Nations University, in their Center for Policy Research. Within this role, Daniel is leading numerous initiatives concerned with the credit rating agencies and their interconnection with the Global Financial Architecture.

Daniel has a Doctorate, Financial Regulation, Durham University; an LL.M., International Business Law, The University of Liverpool; and a Bachelors of Arts (Hons), Criminology and Sociology, University of Liverpool.

Adrian Cashman has over 40 years of experience in the water sector. He has been working as an international consultant based in Barbados on projects across the Caribbean.

Prior to setting up his consultancy in 2018, he spent 12 years with the University of the West Indies and served as the Director of the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES). Whilst Director he led CERMES’s postgraduate teaching and research programmes in water resources management, broadening its focus and outreach activities. As a lead research he was responsible for water and climate change funded research and consultancy projects, and as a teacher he has trained a significant cohort of young Caribbean water professionals.

Prior to joining CERMES, Dr Cashman worked in the water sector in the United Kingdom and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been Head of Water Supply Operations and Civil Design with the government in Namibia in the Department of Water Affairs, introducing EIA’s as part of feasibility studies, developed a cost accounting framework, worked for six years in water resources planning, and was part of the team on the Corporatization of the Namibia Department of Water Affairs. Dr Cashman’s published works cover a diverse range of fields including critical accounting, geography, resource management and future studies.

He has worked with a wide range of international and regional organizations on water and climate related matters. He is a reviewer on the IPCC 6th Assessment Report and an editor for the Water Supply Journal as well as a reviewer for several journals, he serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of Global Water Partnership, is Vice-Chair of the GWP-Caribbean Technical Committee, and over the last 10 years has taken part in the annual Caribbean High Level Ministerial Water Forum.

He has worked with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, the Inter-American Development Bank, Food and Agricultural Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, as well as UK Government Departments, UK Water Industry Research, the House of Lords, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Mr. Hernán Casinelli serves as the Chair of the Accounting, Auditing, and Assurance Standards Board of the FACPCE, the Accountancy body profession in Argentina. Mr. Casinelli is a representative member of the FACPCE in the IASB’s Emerging Economies Group (EEG), and he is a member of the technical advisory group of the Group of Latin American Accounting Standard-setters (GLASS), having conducted several GLASS’ technical working groups over the last ten years. Mr. Casinelli is also a member of the Reference Group of the IAASB for the “Audit for LSEs project”. Mr. Casinelli is a former member of the IASB’s SME Implementation Group (2010 – 2016) and played a key role in the adoption processes of the IFRS for SME Accounting Standard and the IFRS Accounting Standards in several Latin American countries. In his own practice, Mr. Casinelli spent his time as a consultant on IFRS Accounting Standards matters. He combines his professional career and his standard-setting activities with a large academic activity. Since 2013, he has served as a director of the IFRS Certificate Program at the Universidad Austral, a partner in learning of ICAEW in Argentina, the best-ranked non-governmental University in Argentina, and one of the best-ranked in Latin America.

Baraka is a Certified Public Accountant in Public Practice (Tanzania) and a Chartered Accountant (Australia). Baraka also holds a Masters in Business Administration (Griffith University) and is a registered tax consultant (Tanzania) and certified tax adviser (Australia). Prior to Cassian and Associates, Baraka worked with KPMG (Australia) and practised in Tanzania . Baraka has a significant experience in accounting principles within the region having worked in different countries. This experience has given him a wide knowledge in different functional areas. He has been involved in tax advisory services in various industries such as Insurance, Banking, Textile, Auto, Publication, Media, Logistics, Energy, and Power. He has a vast tax consulting experience of more than 7 years having been involved in a variety of tax advisory assignments which include due diligence investigations, comprehensive tax reviews, tax health checks, regulatory audits, and general tax advisory services to a consortium of clients.

Adriel started his career after completing his bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2001, working for the University of Belize as the field station manager at the university’s field station in Calabash Caye, Turneffe Atoll. In 2005, he moved on to pursue a master’s degree in Natural Resource Management at ECOSUR in Quintana Roo, Mexico. His thesis focused on a bioeconomic analysis of the spiny lobster fishery in Belize. Upon completion of his degree, he collaborated with WWF as a consultant to assess the lobster fishery in Belize. In 2010 Adriel began working as a consultant with the Environmental Defence Fund in Belize to assist the Fisheries Department with the implementation of an innovative rights-based fisheries management tool called Managed Access.

He later joined the Fisheries Department in 2012 in the capacity of Fisheries Officer and later served as Deputy Coordinator of the Capture Fisheries Unit at the Department which is responsible for the monitoring and management of Belize’s main commercial species such as Queen Conch, Spiny Lobster and Sea Cucumber. In 2017, he was appointed Coordinator of the Ecosystems-Based Management Unit, leading the oversight of the management of the Marine Reserves, ecosystems monitoring and several other policy interventions in Belize. Adriel has represented the Fisheries Department in various national and international fora. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience in stakeholder engagement, rights-based fisheries management, stock assessments, fisheries research and monitoring, marine protected areas management and fisheries policy. He is currently the Senior Fisheries Officer at the Belize Fisheries Department.