Meryl Richards directs Ceres’ strategy for working with leading companies and investors to address climate impacts of the food sector and nature-related risks more broadly. She also works on Nature Action 100, a global investor-led initiative to drive corporate action and ambition on nature loss.

Previously at Ceres, Meryl led research on the climate impacts of agriculture and commodity-driven deforestation and how food companies can reduce the material risks associated with those impacts. Before joining Ceres, she was a science officer with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.