Monique Mikhail and Ward Warmerdam
Monique Mikhail is the campaigns director of the agriculture and climate finance program at Friends of the Earth, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
Ward Warmerdam is a senior researcher at Profundo, where he leads the financial and economic research team.
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