Trees Robijns

Trees Robijns is a.i. Director for the Land Use Programme based in the ECF’s Berlin office. In this role, she focuses on moving forward ECF’s portfolio on Land Use, Food and Nature. More specifically, she’s coordinating the grantmaking around the reduction of emissions from agricultural consumption and production as well as the promotion of the links between climate and nature.

Prior to joining the ECF, Trees worked for the NGOs NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union based in Germany), BirdLife Europe, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Throughout this time, she focused on a variety of policy topics related to agriculture, food, nature, climate and energy.

Trees graduated in Political Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and has an MA in International Relations and International Economics from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Italy and the USA.

Trees, who speaks Dutch, English, German and French, has a passion for politics and how it influences our society and the planet we live on.