Built on relationships and the art of listening.

Diana van de Kamp

Founder & Chair

Diana's commitment to the natural world began with a childhood instinct to save all creatures great and small. A graduate of the college of William & Mary in Virginia, she began her career in Washington DC researching environmental legislation and policy for Senator Lowell Weicker from Connecticut.

From Washington she moved to New York, spending nearly a decade at Institutional Investor in New York and London as Global Director of Sales and Corporate Memberships across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She built networks across continents and developed a deep understanding of how to connect people to a common cause through membership communities.

In 1997 Diana founded WildInvest in London, driven by a conviction that the right investment, in the right hands, at the right time could bring species and habitats back from the brink of extinction. The model was as personal as it was powerful. Donor members gave annually to a conservation project, with project leaders travelling from around the world to London and New York to tell their conservation success stories in person.

In 2004 Diana was nominated to the Board of Trustees of Fauna & Flora, the United Kingdom's oldest conservation organisation, with His Royal Highness Prince William as Patron. She served on the board for two decades, as well as being appointed Secretary and Treasurer of Fauna & Flora's USA Board in 2011.

In 2026 Diana, in partnership with Celeste Allen, relaunched WildInvest. The conviction that has driven her career for three decades remains unchanged. Now the stories will get greater exposure on a bigger stage.

Celeste Allen

Director

Celeste's early upbringing on a small island off the coast of New Zealand's North Island instilled in her an early and enduring love of the natural world and a deep desire to protect it. She began working on conservation projects at the age of sixteen, and it was in the field that she discovered what she was most drawn to: not the science alone, but also the people. The community leaders and land stewards whose deep knowledge of place was quietly sustaining ecosystems that no outside intervention could replicate.

Celeste holds a dual degree from Columbia University and Trinity College Dublin. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia and received a First from Trinity. She has interacted with conservation projects across Africa and Latin America,  most recently in Nicaragua. Celeste holds a private pilot's licence, an invaluable tool for reaching the remote landscapes where the most important work so often happens.

Celeste is the co-founder of PathosPlanet Productions, a documentary company dedicated to telling the stories of communities living in harmony with the planet, a mission that sits at the very heart of what WildInvest exists to do. Celeste believes that conservation begins with listening: to communities, to landscapes, and to those who have lived alongside the natural world for generations. She brings that same curiosity, empathy, and long-term commitment to her role at WildInvest.