Tom Duncan, Partner
BTom is an environmental and social scientist with a track record in regenerative investment over the last 15 years as a fund manager and investment banker in Asia-Pacific building up and IPO'ing AgriTech and FinTech ventures. He is the CEO & Founder of Earthbanc, the world's leading AI-driven regenerative investment platform with built-in biodiversity and carbon tracking tools for investment portfolios, venture backed by the European Space Agency business incubator and European Institute for Innovation and Technology. He is the co-author of the 500+ page book 'Land Restoration' (Elsevier) along with thought leaders in the regenerative agriculture movement John D. Liu, Allan Savory and Climate Economist Jennifer Helgeson. Tom is a former Instructor of Environmental Medicine at Monash University training Medical Students in emergent public health policy frameworks such as zoonotic pandemics, climate change and biodiversity extinction. He is currently a Research Fellow at George Mason University, Centre for Diplomacy & Conflict Resolution, leading the environmental security analysis and action-research projects globally, including the 'Earth to Eden' project.
He taught and designed Permaculture for 15 years with Co-Founder of Permaculture, David Holmgren and taught with regenerative agriculture leader Darren Doherty of Regrarians. He led the large-scale regeneration project of the Inner Mongolia Steppe across 18.7 million hectares in 2004 with AusAid, and implemented the world's largest lake restoration project in 2004 with a biomimcry technology Tom invented, called the AquaBiofilterTM - case study published by Geoff Lawton at the Permaculture Research Institute. Tom is on the Advisory Council of the Ecosystems Restoration Camps Foundation, Steering Committee at Initiatives for Land, Lives, Peace (UNCCD/ IUCN). Tom is a Caux Scholar and mentors peace builders around the world at the nexus of environment, social, cultural and religious contexts to build common ground for regenerative economic abundance to emerge.
