Rebeca Leonard joined the TEEB team in September 2019 and is based at the UNEP Regional Office for the Asia Pacific to support the TEEB programme implementation in Thailand and Malaysia. Rebeca is a law graduate with a postgraduate degree in Environment and Development with twenty years professional experience in development policy research and analysis. Her research work has centred on analysis of approaches for promoting sustainable livelihoods of low income communities in developing countries, focusing on agrarian reform and community and smallholder tenure of land and natural resources, and more recently on agri-food policy and initiatives to support men and women small-scale farmers and food producers, and measures to monitor and improve food safety. She has worked with various local and international NGOs in support of community based organisations, as well as bilateral and multilateral agencies in the South East Asia region, including Myanmar, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.