Speakers - Forests Asia

There will be more than 120 speakers at the Summit. Here are those who are already confirmed.

Plenary Speakers

H.E. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

President of Indonesia

Video and transcript of opening address
H.E. Minister U Win Tun

Union Minister for Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Myanmar

Video of plenary speech
H.E. Minister Pehin Dato Yahya Bakar

Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, Brunei Darussalam

Video of ministerial address
H.E. Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal

Minister of Environment, Peru

Video and transcript of plenary speech
H.E. Minister Vivian Balakrishnan

Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Singapore

Video and transcript of plenary speech
H.E. Vice Minister Akhom Tounalom

Vice Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao PDR

Video and transcript of plenary discussion panel
Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio

Undersecretary, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines

Video of ministerial address
H.E. Secretary of State TY Sokhun

Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia
H.E. Ola Elvestuen

Head of Parliamentary Committee for Energy and Environment, Norway
H.E. Stig Traavik

Ambassador to Indonesia, Royal Norwegian Embassy
Rajendra K. Pachauri

Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Video of discussion forum
Video and transcript of keynote speech
Heru Prasetyo

Head, REDD+ Management Agency, Indonesia
Agus Purnomo

Special Assistant to the President of Indonesia for Climate Change; Head of the Secretariat of the National Council on Climate Change, Indonesia
Pavan Sukhdev

Founder and CEO, Green Initiatives for a Smart Tomorrow Advisory and United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador
Hadi Daryanto

Secretary General, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
Peter Holmgren

Director General, Center for International Forestry Research

Video and transcript of opening address
Video of welcome address
Video of closing plenary
Peg Putt

CEO, Markets for Change
Rodrigo Chaves

Country Director for Indonesia, World Bank
Andrea Bassi

Founder and CEO, KnowlEdge Srl
Franky Widjaja

Chairman and CEO, Golden Agri-Resources
Sunny Verghese

Group Managing Director and CEO, Olam
Louis Verchot

Director, Forests and Environment Research, Center for International Forestry Research
Scott Poynton

Executive Director, The Forest Trust
Felia Salim

Vice President Director, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI)
Mark Burrows

Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Global Investment Banking, Credit Suisse

Video and transcript of keynote speech
Glenn Hurowitz

Managing Director, Climate Advisers
Aida Greenbury

Managing Director, Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement, Asia Pulp and Paper
Tina Lawton

Regional Director, Syngenta Asia Pacific
Mauricio Amore

CEO, Monsanto Indonesia
Ben Ridley

Asia-Pacific Head, Public Policy – Sustainability Affairs, Credit Suisse
Shinta Kamdani

Vice Chairwoman, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle

International Forestry Students’ Association
Crystal Davis

Senior Manager, Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute
Joko Supriyono

Director, Astra Agro Lestari
Bustar Maitar

Global Head, Indonesia Forest Campaign, Greenpeace International

High-Level panel and discussion forum speakers

Ken-ichi Abe

Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
Sulthon Mohammad Amin

Kharisma Jati Antik
Kiran Asher

Senior Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research
Howard Bamsey

Adjunct Professor, Australian National University
Tony Bartlett

Forestry Research Program Manager, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Andreas Beckermann

Counsellor, Head of Development Cooperation, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Tony Boatman

Chief Disruption Officer, Global Initiatives
Jeremy Broadhead

Senior Forestry and Land Use Policy Advisor, Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (LEAF)
Jake Brunner

Program Coordinator, IUCN Vietnam
Bruno Cammaert

Forestry Officer for EU-FAO FLEGT and Trade Support Program, FAO Office for Asia and the Pacific
Doris Capistrano

Senior Advisor of the SDC-supported ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC)
David Carden

Partner-in-Charge of Asia, Jones Day; Former US Ambassador to ASEAN
Joan Carling

Secretary-General, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Kim Carstensen

Executive Director, Forest Stewardship Council
Xie Chen

Forest Economics and Development Research Center, State Forestry Administration, China
Tim Christophersen

Senior Programme Officer, Forests and Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
David Cooper

Director for the Scientific, Assessments and Monitoring Branch, Convention on Biological Diversity
Peter Cronkleton

Senior Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research
Ganga Ram Dahal

Regional Facilitator, Asia Program, Rights and Resources Initiative
Arief Darmawan

REDD+ Special team, REDD+ Agency of Indonesia
Chhun Delux

Deputy Chief, Forest Carbon Credits & Climate Change Office, Forestry Administration, Ministry of Agriculture Forestry & Fishery, Cambodia
Ahmad Dhiaulhaq

Researcher and trainer at RECOFTC—The Center for People and Forests
Rob Dodson

Vice President, African Field Operations, Wildlife Works
Gary Dunning

Executive Director of The Forests Dialogue
Patrick Durst

Senior Forestry Officer for Asia and the Pacific, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Michael Dwyer

Postdoctoral fellow, Center for International Forestry Research
Cristina Eghenter

Deputy Director for Social Development, Social Development Deputy Director, World Wide Fund for Nature, Indonesia
Hosny El-Lakany

Professor Emeritus, Alexandria University, Egypt and Adjunct Professor and Director, International Forestry Program, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada
Tachrir Fathoni

DG in Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and Vice Chair, INBAR Council
Hans Friederich

Director General of International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
David J. Ganz

Chief of Party, USAID’s Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests
David Gaveau

Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research
Piers Gillespie

Consultant, Agribusiness Services at International Finance Corporation
Eka Ginting

Founder, Commissioner and former President Director, PT Rimba Raya Conservation
Skye Glenday

Senior Associate, Climate Policy Initiative
Adam Grant

Manager Investments and Operations for New Forests Asia
Monica Di Gregorio

Senior Associate, Center for International Forestry Research
Maria Cristina S. Guerrero

Executive Director, Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme South and Southeast Asia (NTFP-EP)
Petrus Gunarso

Sustainability Director, APRIL
Parmaningsih Hadinegoro

Vice President Corporate Secretary, Danone Aqua
Herman Haeruman JS

Prof at Graduate School of Environmental Studies, University of Indonesia and Bogor Agricultural University
Dharsono Hartono

President Director of PT Rimba Makmur Utama
Hedrayanto

Associate Professor, Bogor Agricultural University
Thomas Heller

Executive Director, Climate Policy Initiative
Basah Hernowo

Director, Forestry and Water Conservation, Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), Indonesia
Lex Hovani

Terrestrial Program Advisor, The Nature Conservancy, Indonesia
André Hue

Senior Investment Officer, Jakarta Office, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Yusurum Jagau

Dean of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Palangka Raya
Riina Jalonen

Associate Scientist, Bioversity International
Hilde Jervan

Chief Advisor, Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund
Tracy Johns

Special Markets Director, Wildlife Works
Peter Kanowski

Deputy Director General, Center for International Forestry Research
Trieu Van Khoi

Senior official of the National Steering Office for Forest Protection and Development Plan, VNFOREST
Seong-il Kim

Seoul National University, Korea
Kanchi Kohli

Independent researcher of environment, forest and biodiversity governance, New Delhi, India
Ruslan Krisno

Agrigroup Sustainability Director, Great Giant Pineapple
Alaya de Leon

Senior Legal and Policy Specialist with the Climate Change and Environment Cluster of the Ateneo School of Government, Philippines
Judy Loo

Team Leader, Conservation and sustainable use of forest and tree genetic resources, Bioversity International
Cecilia Luttrell

Senior Research Associate, Center for International Forestry Research
Don Macintosh

Department of Bioscience, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Senior Adviser, Mangroves for the Future
Richard MacKenzie

Aquatic ecologist, the US Forest Service in Hilo, Hawaii
Cuong Pham Manh

Director of Vietnam REDD+ Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Nur Masripatin

ASEAN Regional Knowledge Network on Forests and Climate Change (ARKN-FCC) Coordinator
Mitsuo Matsumoto

Director, REDD Research Development Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan
Douglas McGuire

Senior Forestry Officer and Team Leader, FAO
Moray McLeish

Director and Technical Advisor, Sustainability and Climate Change, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC)
Daniel Mendham

Senior Scientist, sustainable management in plantation foresty, CSIRO
Manju Menon

PhD candidate, Center for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Andrew W. Mitchell

Founder & Executive Director of the Global Canopy Programme (GCP)
Moira Moeliono

Senior Associate, Center for International Forestry Research
Alistair Monument

Asia Pacific Regional Director, FSC
Lou Munden

Founder of The Munden Project
Zahrul Muttaqin

Senior Researcher, Forest Research and Development Agency (FORDA), Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
Manoj Nadkarni

Program Manager, Non Timber Forest Products Programme
Ani Adiwinata Nawir

Senior Socio-economics Scientist, Forests and Livelihoods, Center for International Forestry Research
Nguyen Ba Ngai

Deputy Director of Viet Nam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST)
Anna van Paddenburg

Indonesia Country Representative, Global Green Growth Institute
Christine Padoch

Director of Forests & Livelihoods Research, Center for International Forestry Research
Gary Paoli

Director of Research and Project Development, Daemeter Consulting
Putera Parthama

Senior Adviser to Minister of Forestry on Economic Affairs and International Trade
Hadi Susanto Pasaribu

Executive Director, ASEAN-Korea Forest Cooperation Secretariat (AFoCo Secretariat)
Naya Sharma Paudel

Senior Researcher at ForestAction Nepal
Aulia Perdana

Integrated production and marketing system for timber and NTFPs management, ICRAF
Elizabeth Philip

Head of Climate Change and Forestry Programme, Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
Lesley Potter

Crawford School of Public Policy, Australia National University
Ujjwal Pradhan

Regional Coordinator for ICRAF Southeast Asia Region
Herry Purnomo

Scientist, Smallholder and Community Forestry, Center for International Forestry Research
Nguyen QuangVinh

VietNam Forest Inventory and Planning Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, VietNam
Noer Fauzi Rachman

Executive Director, Sajogyo Institute for Indonesian Agrarian Studies
Muhammad Rakib

Farmer and entrepreneur from Sumbawa, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia
Dita Ramadhani

WWF Indonesia
Sanath Ranawana

Senior Natural Resources Economist, Asian Development Bank
Ramon A. Razal

Professor in the Dept. of Forest Products and Paper Science (FPPS) of the College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR)
Dede Rohadi

Scientist, Forest Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia, seconded to Center for International Forestry Research
James M. Roshetko

Leader, Trees and Markets Unit, Southeast Asia, World Agroforestry Center
Mas Achmad Santosa

Deputy Head, President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4), Indonesia
Iman Santoso

Senior Terrestrial Policy Adviser, Conservation International
George Santoso

Managing Director, DuPont Indonesia
J.W. Saputro

Executive Director, Millenium Challenge Account, Indonesia
Agus Sari

Indonesian REDD+ Agency
Darius Sarshar

Director, Investments and Operations of New Forests Asia
Puja Sawhney

Coordinator, Regional Hub for Asia Pacific Adaptation (APAN)
Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt

Geographer, senior scientist,, ICRAF East- and Central Asia Office, Kunming, China
Swe Set

Land Core Group Myanmar
Simran Sethi

Associate, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
Yalmaz Siddiqui

Senior Director, Environmental & Supplier Diversity Strategy, Office Depot
Olof Skoog

EU Ambassador to Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and ASEAN
Rukka Sombolinggi

Deputy to Secretary General on Advocacy, Legal and Politics, Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara/AMAN, Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago
Edi Subahani

Executive Director, Community-Based Forest Management System Working Group Association
Adrian Rinaldi Suharto

Sustainability Manager, Neste Oil Singapore Pte Ltd.
Dian Sukmajaya

ASEAN Secretariat
Jatna Supriatna

Chairman of the Indonesian chapter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
I Nyoman N. Suryadiputra

Director of Wetlands International-Indonesia (WII)
Andi Idris Syukur

Head of Barru Regent, South Sulawesi
Tint Lwin Thaung

Executive Director, The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC)
Win Myo Thu

Director, EcoDev Myanmar
Satya S. Tripathi

Director, UN Office for REDD+ Coordination in Indonesia
Pham Van Trung

Senior Programme Officer, Viet Nam Forest Protection and Development Fund (VNFF), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Implementation of payment for Forest Environmental Services in Vietnam
Johnny Utama

PT Dian Niaga
Moriz Vohrer

Technical Director Land-Use & Forests, The Gold Standard Foundation
Heinz Walker-Nederkoorn

Swiss Ambassador for Indonesia and for ASEAN
Andrew Wardell

Senior Manager, Research Capacity and Partnership Development, Center for International Forestry Research
Wahjudi Wardojo

Senior Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
Peter Wehrheim

Head of Unit, Climate Finance and Deforestation, European Commission, DG Climate Action
Shelagh Whitley

Research Fellow, Climate and Environment, ODI
Iwan Wibisono

Indonesia REDD+ Agency
Prabianto Mukti Wibowo

Assitant Deputy Minister for Forestry, Ministry for Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia
Martijn Wilder

Lead of Baker & McKenzie’s Global Environmental Markets Practice
Wiratno

Director, Social Forestry Development, Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia; Chairperson of ASEAN Social Forestry Network (ASFN) Secretariat
Grace Wong

Senior Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research
Yurdi Yasmi

Forest Policy Officer for Asia and the Pacific for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Bangkok
Anthony Yeow

President Director, Cargill Tropical Palm Holdings