Hannah Ward

As Director of Environment, Hannah Ward leads WCF’s environmental focus area, through the organization’s landmark collaborative programme, the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI). Additionally, Hannah leads the development of new projects and drives collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners to improve forest protection, reduce and reverse cocoa-related deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions in cocoa-producing countries.

Prior to joining the World Cocoa Foundation, Hannah was a Senior Manager of Institutional Relations at the Rainforest Alliance where she had the overall responsibility for the organization’s relationships, programme design and development, and resource mobilisation from and with European Governments and multilaterals such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF). She has previously worked at Twin & Twin Trading, leading programmes and partnerships with coffee sector stakeholders across East Africa and Latin America, and the U.K. Department for Energy and Climate Change as the Head of Fuel Poverty Targeting as a Senior Policy Advisor. She has lived in West, East and Southern Africa, with experience in South Asia and Latin America.

Hannah holds a Masters in International Development: Social Policy and Social Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Manchester University.