Abraham Baffoe

MSc. From Ghana with over 19 years of experience with sustainability standards, HCV assessments, oil palm and training in nine countries in Africa. ALS licensed assessor.

Arthur Wieczorek

Ph.D. from Brazil with over 9 years of experience in HCV, ESIA, oil palm, soil and water, quality, environmental risk and GIS. ALS licensed assessor.

Daniel Arancibia

MBA. From Peru with 15 years of experience in applying the HCV approach in forestry, soy and oil palm, training, report reviewing, certification and accreditation. ALS licensed assessor.

Dwi Muhtaman

MSc. From Indonesia with 16 years of experience in a wide range of HCV work, auditing in forestry and oil palm, training and peer reviewing. ALS licensed assessor.

Edward Pollard

MSc. From England with over 15 years’ experience with the HCV approach, applied to forestry, oil palm and REDD, including experience as peer reviewer. He has worked in South East Asia and Africa

Felicia Lasmana

MSc. From Indonesia is a specialist in mammals, HCV assessment and ecological survey as well as an experienced RSPO auditor. She has 8 years experience of environmental assessment, due diligence and auditing in Asia. ALS licensed assessor.

Isaac Abban-Mensah

MSc. From Ghana specialises in the socio economics of tropical forestry, sustainable agricultural development, forest ecology and natural resource governance. He is a lead auditor for RSPO and has 10 years of experience in these fields. ALS licensed assessor.

Hannah Scrase

MSc. From Wales has more than 20 years of experience working in forest management and conservation, standards development, forest auditing and certification in Europe and South America. She has worked as the ALS Quality Manager.

Jules Crawshaw

MBS. From Australia with over 25 years of experience in forestry – both commercial and community, oil palm, HCV, high carbon and REDD assessments. ALS licensed assessor.

Langlang Tata Buana

MSc. From Indonesia with 10 years of experience working in forest management and HCV conservation in South East Asia. Experienced in certification and auditing (for FSC, RSPO, CCBA and GRI).

Marcelo Levy

MSc. From Canada has more than 20 years’ experience in forest management and supply chain certification, auditing and verification, standards development and stakeholder consultation in North and South America.

Maria Rodriguez

MSc. From Spain with over 8 years’ experience as auditor, reviewer and trainer in FSC forestry certification and HCV Assessments in Spain, UK, Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.

Marisol Zumbado

MSc. From Costa Rica with over 10 years of experience in HCV, HCV assessments, oil palm and payment for ecosystem services in Central America. ALS licensed assessor.

Nana Darko Cobbina

MSc. From Ghana with experience in forestry and oil palm. He holds an MSc. in Environmental Resources Management and has over 10 years’ experience in natural resource management. ALS Licensed Assessor.

Nick Moss-Gillespie

MSc. From Canada has over 15 years’ experience in the forest-sector governance, monitoring, certification and auditing, having worked in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Reza Azmi

PhD. From Malaysia with 20 years of experience in HCV training. He is a lead auditor for forestry and oil palm in Asia and Africa. ALS licensed assessor.

Sebastiaan De Smedt

Ph.D. From Belgium, has more than six years of experience working in responsible production, landscape ecology and planning and applying the HCV and HCS approaches, having worked in Africa and Latin America. ALS licensed assessor.

Sophie Dirou

MSc. From France, working mainly in Africa with 11 years of experience in auditing forestry and oil palm, EIA and HCV.

Ana Sofia Lorda

BSc. From Mexico, is a biologist with more than 2 years experience working supporting the HCVRN with capacity building, research on HCV monitoring and ALS quality assurance, communications and reporting work.

Mauro Ciriminna

MSc. From Italy with more than 6 years’ experience working on ecosystem services, certification, land management issues, customary rights, and social development in Latin America and Asia.

Sahat Aritonang

MSc. From Indonesia with more than 10 years’ experience in the forestry and agriculture sectors, HCV assessments, biodiversity and social surveys, management and monitoring conservation. ALS Licensed Assessor.

Laura Doughty

From the United Kingdom. Researcher in the fields of ecology , conservation, spatial analysis & Geographical Information Services.

Bart Van Assen

MSc. From the Netherlands, with more than 12 years experience in tropical forestry, forest management and chain-of-custody certification, timber legality verification, auditing for FSC and RSPO.

Mark Leighton

PhD. from the USA with over 15 years’ experience in tropical forest ecology, management and conservation, stakeholder engagement and HCV assessments in South East Asia, Africa, Latin America for the forestry, oil palm, and pulp/paper sectors.

Claudine Nagiah

MSc. From Ireland, with 15 years experience in natural resource management and social development, on isses related to oil palm, community forestry, rural livelihoods and climate change in Africa in South East Asia.

Helen Newing

PhD. from the UK with more than 5 years’ experience working with social and environmental responsibility standards, conservation and indigenous rights, stakeholder consultation and FPIC processes in Latin America, West Africa and South East Asia.

Lely Puspitasari

BSc. From Indonesia, with over 4 year’s experience in auditng for FSC, VLC and SAN standards in the Asia Pacific region.

Agus Eka Putera

BSc. from Indonesia, with over 8 years experience as auditor (FSC, SAN, VLC, VCS and CCB), nd with biological and forestry studies related to EIA, HCV and risk assessments in SEA.

Olivia Rickenbach

PhD. From Switzerland, with over 10 years experience in Africa and Indonesia including developing guidance for best practices in HCV identification and management, evaluation of HCV assessment reports and the study of socio-ecological systems.

Mike Senior

PhD. from the UK with more than 10 years’ experience working in conservation biology, landscape ecology and with the HCV approach in relation to natural forest management, palm and pulp, in Africa and South East Asia. He is also an ALS Licensed Assessor.

Titiek Setyawati

PhD. From Indonesia, a forest ecologist with more than 30 years’ experience in biodiversity conservation, wildlife management, sustainable forest management certification and with more than 30 certification audits in South East Asia over ten years.

Aisyah Sileuw

MSc. from Indonesia with more than 20 years of experience in Southeast Asia working in HCV assessments, HCV national interpretations, policy and training. She is also an experienced FSC and RSPO auditor.

Richard Sobey

MSc. from the UK, with 25 years of HCV related experience in Asia and Africa, working on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management and carrying out ecology and environmental assessments.

Lahiru Wijedasa

MSc. from Singapore. Botanist with 9 years of experience as a reasearcher working on vegetation surveys and remote-sensing based vegetation classification and statistical data analysis. Also experienced in HCV assessments and EIAs in Southeast Asia.

Jake Willis

MSc. From England, a forester with 20 years’ experience in forest governance and forest management approaches, territorial rights, mapping and participatory monitoring of mining, logging and oil palm.

Betsy Yaap

MSc. From the USA, with over 10 years of experience with HCV assessments, mentoring, peer reviews and internal audits in Southeast Asia and West Africa. ALS licensed assessor.

Benny Yeong

PhD. from Malaysia, a forester with 7 years’ experience in coordinating biodiversity conservation research and outreach projects in Sabah Malaysia, including in oil palm landscapes, oil palm certification, conservation and policy.

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