Leigh Fox is a forestry professional, impact investor, and conservation finance specialist that has worked with Indigenous communities around the world for the past 25 years. In Western Canada Leigh has managed complex silviculture and post-fire restoration projects for decades. In East Africa, he has helped establish multiple companies that directly engage local communities as equity partners in timber production, forest carbon project design, agriculture production, and wetland conservation projects. Currently Leigh is working for Wahkohtowin Development to advance innovative project files such as the mycorrhizal inoculation of forest seedlings for carbon and improved ecosystem services, climate smart forestry projects, workforce development and First Nations youth programs in forestry and environmental monitoring, forest policy, and carbon project participation agreements.