Samantha Power

Samantha Power is a Co-Founder and the Director of The BioFi Project. A regenerative economist, systems futurist, and bioregionalist, she co-authored the book Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet. Her work focuses on building a new layer of global financial architecture: place-based institutions designed to serve rapid, radical regeneration.

For over a decade, Samantha has pursued one central question: “How do we change where money flows so it supports, rather than destroys, life?” That inquiry has taken her from disappearing rainforests in Southeast Asia to women’s lending circles in Myanmar, and from the US Treasury to the World Bank. At the World Bank, she spent five years publishing research and advising governments, central banks, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and major investors on how to bend the curve of nature loss.

Realizing the limits of top-down finance, Samantha began listening deeply to those regenerating lands and waters on the ground. She witnessed the funding gap faced by Indigenous stewards, regenerative farmers, and community builders—and envisioned a new architecture of bioregional-scale finance capable of meeting their needs and regenerating ecosystems, cultures, and economies together through living systems design. Her approach weaves economic systems thinking with her study of deep ecology and Indigenous wisdom, working from the belief that finance must turn to serving rather than destroying life.

That vision became the foundation for both the BioFi book and the BioFi Project—a “think-and-do tank” supporting bioregions to design, create, capitalize, and launch Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs). BFFs decentralize financial resource governance, coordinate portfolios of regenerative projects, and catalyze the transition to bioregional economies.

Today, Samantha and her team are collaborating with bioregional organizing teams across the Americas—from the Amazon Headwaters to Salmon Nation—to prototype this next generation of financial infrastructure for a regenerative future. The BioFi Project aims to seed a new category of financial institutions rooted in place, reciprocity, and planetary repair.

Samantha holds a Masters in International Affairs and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelors of Science in International Economics from Louisiana State University.