Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board brings together people we have worked alongside in one way or another over the years. Each of them carries a deep love and respect for nature and all life, and we are grateful for their counsel as we build the Mirn Grabn Initiative. Beyond all, we treasure their visits to the valley: walking the land, sitting by the water, building bridges, and lending a hand wherever needed - that’s where the real conversations happen.
Marilou van Golstein Brouwers
Former impact investment banker, always focused on how money can contribute to positive, transformative change. Co founded and led Triodos Investment Management as well as Triodos Regenerative Money Centre.
Founder of Liberating Money and longtime advocate for women’s financial inclusion through Women’s World Banking.
Marilou brings decades of experience in aligning capital with people and planet.
Sonia Castañeda Rial
Environmental lawyer and former Director of Fundación Biodiversidad, Spain’s largest funder of nature conservation.
Councillor of the IUCN and participant in Homeward Bound, the global leadership initiative for women in science.
Sonia brings two decades of experience connecting nature conservation with how we live, produce, and relate to the natural world.
Louise Brierley-Ingham
Communications and public affairs consultant, formerly leading Patagonia’s communications and advocacy across Europe for many years.
Board member of the It’s Great Out There Coalition and longtime voice of the outdoor industry.
Louise brings the craft of turning purpose into voice, movement, and public momentum.
Adriana Rejc Buhovac
Full Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business and Senior Consultant at its Centre of Business Excellence, where she has developed strategies for more than 70 companies and institutions. Co-author of Making Sustainability Work,
Adriana brings deep expertise in turning purpose and strategy into measurable, lasting impact.
Mark Vernooij
Co-Managing Partner at THNK School of Creative Leadership in Amsterdam and member of the World Economic Forum expert network on innovation.
Former faculty at Stanford and Wharton and a serial founder,
Mark brings the art of creative leadership - helping ambitious initiatives grow from bold idea to lasting institution.
Andrej Sovinc
Hydrologist and protected-areas expert who led Slovenia’s Sečovlje Salina Nature Park for fifteen years and served as European Vice-Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.
From wetland restoration to international conservation policy, Andrej brings deep, hands-on knowledge of how rivers and protected landscapes are brought back to life.
Pascal Rösler
Founder of Pure Water for Generations, who left a business career in Munich to paddle 2,467 km down the Danube to the Black Sea- a journey that became a movement for living rivers and a vision of a drinkable Danube by 2042.
Through more than 100 events a year, Pascal brings people in Germany and Austria back to their local rivers, turning personal commitment into collective action for water.