Natalya Kharadi is an environmental economist at eftec with eight years’ experience and a Member of the College of Experts at The Office for Environmental Protection (2023-present). She has been involved in nearly one hundred projects with a primary focus on applying the natural capital approach to ecosystem service valuation, natural capital accounting, and policy appraisal and evaluation. Her work consistently bridges scientific, economic and policy perspectives to help decision-makers apply natural capital and valuation evidence in practice.

She works with the public, private and third sector clients managing the development of natural capital accounts across a range of sectors (e.g., forestry, water), scales (e.g., site-level, regional and national), and for management scenarios (e.g., protected landscapes, fisheries management). She led the production of the first regional UN SEEA-EA aligned ecosystem accounts in the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories (DPLUS109) and co-chairs the ecosystem accounting network created for the region. She regularly coaches and trains clients on natural capital accounting processes (ISO 14054/UN SEEA-EA) and using economic valuation evidence in decision-making.

Natalya has experience developing frameworks, novel ecosystem service valuation methods (e.g., outdoor recreation and tourism), and their application in appraising and evaluating management actions in terrestrial, coastal and marine environments. She has created tools and models, with accompanying guidance for various end-users (e.g., Natural Capital Register & Account Tool for the Environment Agency in England).

She holds an MSc in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics (with distinction) from the University of St. Andrews and a BSc in Economics with Econometrics from the University of Kent. She works both in English and Swedish.