Our team

Staff

Will van de Pol

CEO

Will stepped up to the position of CEO in 2023, having campaigned at Market Forces since 2015. Will previously led our Asset Management and Shareholder Action team, and his work at Market Forces has focussed on challenging investors to drag companies into line with climate goals. 

Gerlinde Scholz

Chief Operating Officer

Gerlinde joined Market Forces in 2024. She has extensive experience in building capacity and scale for not-for-profit organisations. Her experience includes both governance and senior executive appointments in a diversity of organisations. She brings a track record of driving transformational growth and business process improvement to Market Forces.

Antony Balmain

Media and Communications Manager

Antony joined Market Forces in 2022, bringing decades of experience in media, journalism and communications. Antony is responsible for ensuring Market Forces’ campaigns reach key media markets, our messaging is as powerful and impactful as possible and our team’s communications skills are developed.

Bernadette Maheandiran

Director, Asia Energy Finance

Bernadette joined Market Forces in 2017 and leads our Asian energy finance campaigns. Bernadette develops campaigns on coal and gas companies, projects and financiers. She also liaises with community groups, conducts outreach to investors, and manages our Asia-focused team.

Marcella Brasset

Australian Campaigns Manager

Marcella joined the Market Forces team in 2023, bringing extensive experience in campaign strategy, project and people management and cross cultural coaching, facilitation and empowerment of people with lived experience of intersectional injustice. 

Nellie Malseed

Operations Coordinator

Nellie manages the Market Forces office spaces, provides the team with logistical support, and is responsible for financial and compliance administration. Since 2021, Nellie has filled this integral internally-focused position, and they also provide an important liaison role with Friends of the Earth Australia.

Rose Tehan

Analyst

Rose started with Market Forces in 2023, bringing extensive experience in data analysis, research and quality control. Quickly becoming integral to the team, Rose has led research projects including an analysis of superannuation funds proxy voting, a global investor survey, and the Compare Banks Table update. 

Jack Wood

Company Analyst

In early 2024, Jack joined the team as our Company Analyst, having previously worked as an Equity Analyst specialising in ASX-listed mineral resource firms.  Jack conducts research for multiple campaigns, notably developing investor briefings and communications on APA, Santos, Whitehaven, and Woodside. 

Brett Morgan

Asset Management/Superannuation Funds Campaigner

Brett joined Market Forces in early 2021, having previously worked in the superannuation industry. Brett works on our campaigns to clean up Australia’s super funds, while also adding support to our shareholder action and Australian fossil fuel company campaigns. 

Rachel Deans

Australian Fossil Fuels Campaigner

Rachel has been with Market Forces since 2016. After five years as a Shareholder Action Campaigner delivering and supporting shareholder resolutions and actions at hundreds of company AGMs, Rachel then moved into a role focused on Australian superannuation funds. Rachel’s current work focuses on driving campaigns that target major Australian gas companies, including Santos and APA Group.

Morgan Pickett

Australian Fossil Fuels Campaigner

Since 2022, Morgan has worked across our Australian fossil fuels campaigns. His current focus is on Australian banks, working alongside Kyle to produce investor briefings on best practice lending policies, highlight where banks are breaching their climate commitments, and deliver campaigns that aim to end the Australian banking sector’s financial support for companies expanding fossil fuels.

Kyle Robertson

Australian Banks Campaigner and Analyst

Kyle joined the Market Forces research team in 2022, with a key focus on the role Australia’s banks play in financing fossil fuel expansion. Building off the back of this research work, Kyle now develops campaigns and investor analysis to drive progress at Australia’s major banks and keep the banks accountable to their climate commitments. 

Cari Lin

Shareholder and Community Action Organiser

Cari joined Market Forces in 2024 and quickly picked up the intricacies and detail required of this crucial role. Originally trained as a lawyer, Cari transitioned to the climate movement where she volunteered and worked as a community organiser. Cari now manages the shareholder action element of our campaigns, empowering shareholders to drive strategic and impactful change.

Munira Chowdhury

Analyst

Since late 2017, Munira has produced the research behind countless Market Forces reports and briefings on fossil fuel and energy companies, and was responsible for the coal lending studies that made waves in India from 2018 to 2021. Munira’s campaigning focuses on fossil fuel developments in the Chattogram region of Bangladesh. 

Sachiko Suzuki

Asia Climate and Energy Finance Analyst

After volunteering for Market Forces in 2018, Sachiko joined the team in early 2019. Sachiko’s PHD in sustainable finance and her background in the Japanese financial sector provides valuable insight into how we can effectively change Japan’s major banks. Sachiko’s work is integral to our ability to lodge and advocate for shareholder proposals in Japan.

Binbin Mariana

Asia Energy Finance Campaigner

Binbin joined Market Forces in 2020 and is based in Jakarta. Binbin’s role focuses on Indonesian coal mining companies, while supporting the wider climate movement in Indonesia. Binbin also supports our work targeting regionally significant banks financing fossil fuel expansion.

Meg Fukuzawa

Asia Energy Finance Campaigner

Joining Market Forces in 2019, Meg is based in southeast Asia and has a background working in civil society organisations across the region. Meg drives campaigns to change the policies and behaviour of Japanese corporations involved in the development and financing of fossil fuels across Asia.

Eri Watanabe

Japanese Banks Campaigner

After working closely with us in her previous role as a finance campaigner at 350.org, Eri joined the team at Market Forces in early 2023. Eri leads our Japanese commercial bank campaigns. 

Kentaro Nunokawa

Japan Energy Campaigner

Kentaro started with Market Forces in 2023, campaigning on Japanese companies and banks. Kentaro supports Market Forces to deliver public tactics in Japan, and contributes valuable research briefings on Japanese-funded fossil fuel projects and the companies developing them. 

Kumiko Kitano

Communications Campaigner – Asia Energy Finance

Kumiko joined Market Forces in 2022 as part of the Asia and Communications teams. Providing critical support to create and tailor campaign material to both English and Japanese-speaking audiences, Kumiko’s work is essential for producing publications and social media content supporting our work on Japanese corporations. 

Kate Simpson

Digital Campaigns Manager

Kate has been part of Market Forces since early 2017. She manages our digital and supporter communications, advertising campaigns, grant applications and community fundraising. 

Paula Martinez

Digital Content Coordinator

Paula has been with Market Forces since 2019, and her video production work helps to grow engagement for our campaigns. Paula also provides support with graphic design and digital communications. 

Amelia Benefield

Digital Communications Campaigner

Amelia joined Market Forces in 2023. She manages our social media channels, develops social media campaigns with the Australia and Asia teams, and designs creative content for Market Forces publications.

Matt Tomkins

Digital Campaigner

Matt joined Market Forces in 2020. He ensures that what we publish online is current, well-presented, and optimised for end users. Matt’s work supports our online marketing strategies to grow our audience, amplify our reach and influence campaign targets. 

Manny Perez

Website Manager