Phil Cull joined the Nature Conservancy of Canada in 2025 as Director of Conservation Finance, after more than 15 years working in the environmental markets as a project developer and carbon finance expert.

Prior to working in the environmental markets, Phil spent 10 years in the City of London working on structured finance for various investment banks. He is responsible for leading NCC’s conservation finance-related programs that support NCC’s nature-based, natural climate solutions work, with a particular focus on carbon finance.

He has been involved in some of the largest IFM projects globally, including the Great Bear Forest Carbon project. Phil is involved in a number of large-scale land conservation programs in his work at NCC, with a focus on designing impact-based approaches by which to attract greater private capital into nature-based solutions projects across the country.