Aleksandra Holmlund
Aleksandra Holmlund
Chief Executive Officer
Qarlbo Biodiversity
Aleksandra is the CEO of Qarlbo Biodiversity, and a forester with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in operational forestry and timberland investments across Sweden, Europe and the Americas.
As CEO of Qarlbo Biodiversity, Aleksandra leads investments in nature-positive land management strategies that integrate science, technology and innovative financial tools to optimize production capacity and biodiversity conservation. The company focuses on implementing nature-positive management strategies and biodiversity credit projects in production forests, which cover roughly 10% of the world’s land area and play a crucial role in the global economy. Through incorporation of a proprietary monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) tool developed in partnership with Treemetrics, Qarlbo Biodiversity offers investors, corporations and landowners flexible, scalable frameworks for generating long-term returns alongside environmental resilience.
Aleksandra has engaged in biodiversity credit research and methodology development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and global biodiversity credit market development as a Task Force Member with the UN-affiliated Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA). The methodology derived from Aleksandra’s proprietary research was used to facilitate Europe’s first-ever voluntary biodiversity credit transaction in 2023, and has since been adopted as the basis for the Global Biocredit Standard launched at COP16.
Prior to Qarlbo Biodiversity, Aleksandra held Chair positions with the Swedish Association of Foresters and Arboreal BV (now impact forestry manager Generation Forest Invest). Earlier roles include COO of Nordics, UK and Western Europe for timberland investment and management firm GreenGold, leading supply chain review and timber market analysis for IKEA Group, and advising on natural resource and production landscape management as a consultant across Europe.
Aleksandra is a Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. She holds an MSc in Forestry and Biology and Forest Resources Production and Management from SLU, and an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.
