Bianca Voicu’s research focuses on developing techniques to design and implement nature-positive investments

Voicu’s research aims to unpack how nature-positive investments can contribute outlined by the CBD and what criteria these should meet from a science perspective. She focuses particularly on incorporating pluralistic value perspectives on how nature benefits and enhances the resilience of the Earth and human societies as a basis for defining nature-positive investments. The research aims to develop scientifically grounded techniques to plan, design, implement, and evaluate nature positive investments. Voicu’s PhD sits with the MISTRA Finance to Revive Biodiversity research programme, with the mission to support the financial sector’s capacity to contribute to a nature-positive economy, enhancing the resilience of our planet by reversing the loss of nature and biodiversity.

Voicu holds a MSc degree in Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development from Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her thesis focused on identifying “seeds” of nature-positive futures, in the form of innovative financial initiatives which seek to facilitate the allocation of financial resources to projects which benefit biodiversity and the people who look after it.

Previously, Voicu was a programme manager at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). She has worked across executive education programmes, tailoring and delivering sustainability leadership programmes for companies and public sector organisations. Voicu’s most recent portfolio of work focused on the finance sector, working with major international banks and investors. Voicu also worked with Cambridge Zero, the University’s initiative in response to the climate crisis, where she was responsible for shaping the organisation’s engagement with local businesses in Cambridgeshire.

Voicu completed an MPhil in Development Studies, at the University of Cambridge and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York.

Supervision

Main supervisor: Garry Peterson
Co-supervisor: Beatrice Crona
Co-supervisor: Megan Meacham