Mafalda Evangelista

Mafalda Evangelista is a Partner and Director of Natural Capital and Strategy at NBI – Natural Business Intelligence, a Portuguese consultancy specialising in nature-based economics, natural capital, biodiversity and ecosystem services. A forestry engineer by training, she has more than 25 years of experience spanning the forestry sector, corporate sustainability and strategic nature consultancy, including the role of ecosystems in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

She holds a degree in Forestry Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro and has completed the taught component of the PhD programme in Sustainability Science at the University of Lisbon, as well as the Sustainable Finance programme at Nova SBE Executive Education. She also taught Circular Bioeconomy on the Executive Programme in Sustainable Management at Porto Business School.