YH

Youssef Hanna

Climate, Conservation and Restoration | Earth Sciences @ UvA | LBS MiM

Netherlands

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Research and Business Development Fellow

    2024

    Supporting investor outreach, strategic partnership, and design aspects for innovative carbon projects, focusing on biochar and Article 6 initiatives. Conducting in-depth research on carbon market policies and frameworks, supporting proposal development, regulatory alignment, and strategy development.

2024 - 2024

  • Natural Capital Team

    2024 - 2024

    Postgrad team member supporting high-impact ecosystem restoration and conservation carbon projects and transactions in Eastern and Southern Africa.

  • Fellow

    2023 - 2024

  • Associate

    2023 - 2023

    Focusing on investments in pre-seed startups building nature-positive and climate-resilient agrifood systems in Africa.

2022 - 2023

  • Senior Analyst

    2022 - 2023

    Focusing on agritech and climatetech across Africa and the Middle East.

2022 - 2022

  • Founder

    2022 - 2022

    Worked on developing alternative aquaculture protein solutions to address food insecurity, climate impacts and nature loss in the Middle East and Africa 1st place LBSxUCL Cleantech Challenge 1st place VentureLab North Pitch Competition 1st runner-up Cornell University Emerging Markets Startup Competition 1st runner-up LBS Launchpad Final Pitch Competition

2022 - 2022

  • 2022 Cohort

    2022 - 2022

    One of 18 teams selected from 150 applicants to participate in LBS Launchpad's 2022 pre-accelerator cohort.

  • Researcher and Consultant

    2021 - 2021

    Developed online sales and marketing strategies for a leading Dutch beverage producer.

2020 - 2020

  • Project Management, Sales

    2020 - 2020

  • Social Mentor, Operations Team

    2018 - 2020

    Helped support Human Rights Defenders from Egypt, Brazil and Nigeria on the Shelter City program. Responsibilities were project-based and ranged from creative, administrative and social leadership roles within Shelter City Groningen, all motivated by supporting defenders in their work. This included tasks creating YouTube content, producing an autobiographical documentary, organizing lectures and international conferences, helping Defenders with time management and public speaking skills and being a 'social mentor' to Defenders in Groningen.