Rich Stockdale is Chief Executive Officer at Oxygen Conservation. He is a transformative leader and pioneering environmentalist on a mission to Scale Conservation. He combines relentless commitment with visionary thinking to redefine their relationship with the natural world. He founded Oxygen Conservation in 2021 and has rapidly built it into one of the world’s most impactful natural capital portfolios, valued at over 200£m and actively transforming almost 43,000 acres across the UK into thriving ecosystems for people and wildlife. Stockdale is determined to make natural capital as a mainstream asset class, with the ambitious target of managing over 1£bn in assets by 2030, reshaping how the world values nature and creating positive impact at an incredible scale. He has a PhD in data science.