The team
Who works on your assignment
Cap Impact is a small practice. The founder carries the thread of every assignment; the complementary skills an assignment calls for are drawn from a network of senior consultants, and named to the client before signature.
Marine Gauthier — founder
Fifteen years where the environment meets human rights, across international organisations, NGOs and research.
Senior Technical Advisor on climate safeguards at the United Nations Development Programme, leading a team of four across a portfolio of more than one hundred and fifty GEF and GCF projects. Before and since, she has worked with Indigenous and community-led organisations, mainly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on land rights, forest governance and civil society participation in climate processes.
Doctorate at the Geneva Graduate Institute, completed at the end of 2026. Member of the scientific committee of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and of IUCN's Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. She teaches environmental geopolitics at UCLy.
She founded the practice in 2016.
French, English. Based near Annecy, France.
Our network
For assignments that call for skills or presence we do not hold in-house, we mobilise a network of senior consultants built over the years — evaluation and conflict analysis, safeguards, gender, partnerships and donor compliance, country expertise. The people mobilised are named in the proposal, never after.