Darell is Technical Assistance Coordinator at Sarona Asset Management. Focusing on the Australian Development Investments (ADI) portfolio, he supports monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities, budgeting, reporting verification, and overall project management across ADI’s technical assistance projects and the associated fund managers and portfolio companies. He ensures projects uphold compliance and alignment with ADI’s climate and gender mandate, and facilitates impact measurement, donor reporting, and knowledge dissemination.
Prior to Sarona, Darell was an analyst at the University of Oxford’s Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute focusing on corporate climate risk and business decarbonization, where he advised policy recommendations and academic research on corporate sustainability transition, disclosure frameworks, climate scenarios, and financing gaps. He also has prior experience in ESG strategic communications and stakeholder engagement with Forests Canada, the University of Toronto’s Presidential Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability (CECCS) and International Education Centre, and the Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council Government in Finland.
He is passionate about environmental and social sustainability, and has delivered presentations, workshops, roundtables, and curricula on the topic at both an international and grassroots level.
Darell holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management (Distinction) from the University of Oxford as a full-ride Indonesian Government (LPDP) Scholar, and an Honours BA in Politics, Law, and Transnationalism (High Distinction) from the University of Toronto as a full-ride Lester B. Pearson Scholar.