Leigh Fox is a forestry professional, impact investor, and conservation finance specialist that has worked with Indigenous communities around the world for the past 25 years. In Western Canada Leigh has managed complex silviculture and post-fire restoration projects for decades. In East Africa, he has helped found multiple companies that directly engage local communities as equity partners in timber production, forest carbon project design, agriculture production, and wetland conservation projects. Leigh’s graduate work focused on benefit delivery mechanisms as a feature of contract design in West African countries participating in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. Currently Leigh is working for Wahkohtowin Development to advance innovative project files such as the mycorrhizal inoculation of forest seedlings for carbon and improved ecosystem services, workforce development and First Nations youth programs in forestry and environmental monitoring, forest policy, and carbon project participation agreements.