Gregg Brill

Gregg is a Senior Researcher with the Pacific Institute and Acting Technical Lead for the United Nations Global Compact CEO Water Mandate.

His current work focuses on developing and scaling awareness and investment of nature-based solutions (NBS) by the private sector.

This work includes the development and implementation of a standardized method, guide, and tool to demonstrate stacked water, carbon, biodiversity and socio-economic benefits associated with NBS for watersheds around the world. His technical support stretches across water resilience, net positive water impact, and science-based target setting.

Gregg has 15 years of experience in corporate sustainability, ecological infrastructure/nature-based solutions, conservation, economic water resilience, and stakeholder engagement. He has worked in the public and private sectors, for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and in academia.

Gregg has a Ph.D. in Environmental and Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town, where his research focused on the uses, values, impacts, and management of water-related ecosystem services in Cape Town and Table Mountain National Park.

Gregg will work with the IISAAK Olam Foundation and the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership by exploring relational values of sociocultural and biophysical ecosystem services in Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).