Quality Panel

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 and Quality Panel Member.

Anthropology Ph.D. University Science of Malaysia. Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement.MSC. Anthropology, University of Indonesia. BA Archeology. University of Gadjah Mada.Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder engagement. Land acquisition and Resettlement Plan (LARAP).Conflict analysis in development program. Social development & social sustainability. World Bank Operation Manual.

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 and an HCVN's Quality Panel member.

MSc. in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management, University of Oxford. BSc. in Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

M.A. in Linguistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. M.Sc. in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.

Forestry Engineer with over 20 years experience in the forestry sector, biodiversity conservation, assurance and verification systems, monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, stakeholder engagement and advocacy.

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MSc. with more than 10 years' experience working in conservation and certification (FSC, SAN, RSPO). Biology (Diploma) at University of Hohenheim, Germany. Master Degree (Diploma) in Botany, Phytochemistry, Landscape Ecology.

For more than 12 years, Arif has applied his expertise in Remote Sensing and GIS for Natural Resource Management and Environment, including in Forestry and Conservation, both in the context of landscape ecosystems and species. Arif has carried out HCV assessments since 2010 from an assistant's expert level, and now he is an HCV ALS Lead Assessor and HCSA Practitioner. Arif now lives in Indonesia and speaks Indonesian and English.

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BSc Ecology, MSc Geosciences & Environment, Phd Environmental Science ongoing +9 years

MSc Management of Natural Resources in the Tropics Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.Over 12 years' experience with sustainable forest management and chain-of-custody certification, timber legality verification, and step-wise certification. Tropical forestry and management of natural resources.

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.

Forestry Engineering University of Concepción, Chile.

Claudine has 20 years’ broad international experience in social development, natural resource management and sustainability.  She has experience in the forest sector, palm oil and in sustainable tourism.  Her work focuses on social and environmental policies and standards, including auditing, quality assurance, monitoring compliance, training and capacity building, and advising on social and environmental risks and safeguards.

She is currently based in Thailand and has worked in Europe, South America, Africa, South and South East Asia for international development agencies, local governments, NGOs, CBOs, social enterprises, and private sector companies.

BSc, MBA & 14 years.

Dicky is forester and obtained his PhD in 1994 at Forestry Faculty, Göttingen University, Germany, where he also worked for some years as scientist and researcher. Since then, he has been working for 28+ years in leading positions for various development, environment, and conservation programs and organizations. Currently he is the Senior Expert Biodiversity Conservation for G20 Global Land Initiative of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification).

Dicky’s field of expertise ranges from natural resource and forest management and conservation, biodiversity and protected area management, climate change, land use/spatial planning and landscape management, technical cooperation and development assistance, project planning and design, project analysis and evaluation, forest and land fire, forest harvesting/logging, watershed management, research and development, training and capacity building. He is also co-founder of HCV Network Indonesia, Founder and Board Chairman of Tropenbos Indonesia, Member of Advisory Board to Tropenbos International, and board member of some NGOs.

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BSc, MSc + 15 years. Forestry auditing, RSPO Social expert and team leader 12 HCV Assessments, involved in >40 forest audits as social expert, qualified CoC auditor.

MSc. from England with over 15 years’ experience with the HCV approach, applied to forestry, oil palm and REDD, including experience as a peer reviewer. He has worked in South East Asia and Africa and he's a Quality Panel member

Msc. in GIS/Remote Sensing. For more than 11 years, Franck has applied his Expertise in GIS/Remote Sensing in various fields ranging from Palm Oil, Rubber, Cocoa, Coffee to Cotton etc. He has been involved and led HCV and HCV-HCSA assessments as Social and/or GIS and Remote Sensing Expert. Franck is an HCV ALS Lead Assessor and HCSA Practitioner. Franck lives in Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast and speaks French and English

BSc Biology, MSc Environmental Science.Felicia has 8+ yrs of experience in ecological survey, HCV assessment and investment due diligence.

Ph.D. Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. Remote Sensing and Landscape Ecology.More than 13 years working on Landscape Ecology and remote sensing.

BS in Forestry, M.S in Natural Resource Management.Has 5 years' experience in Ecosystem restoration project with GIS and Remote Sensing core. Ajie is a registered HCSA practitioner.

PhD, Stirling University, Scotland. BSc, Psychology and Zoology at Reading, Has over 5 years' experience in international environment and development policy and practice (interdisciplinary social/environmental methodologies; social and environmental responsibility standards; conservation and indigenous rights; collaborative natural resource management, community conserved areas and protected areas governance. Experience with participatory planning and management, including stakeholder consultation, social/participatory aspects of mapping and FPIC processes. Expertise in wildlife surveying techniques (doctoral thesis).

BSC Forestry. Forest Conservation Department, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). More than 8 years of relevant experience in auditing, biological studies as part of environmental impact assessment, HCV assessment, forest dynamics research, forest biomass assessments, ecotourism management, facilitation of community forest groups in achieving FSC certification, and risk assessments for palm oil plantations in preparation for RSPO certification.

D.Phil Zoology / Wildlife Conservation, University of Oxford.MSc Zoology, University of Oxford. International Wildlife Conservation Practice. Worked for the Indonesia Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) for two decades. Within the MoEF, he has posted in several positions in various regions in west-central Sumatra. In collaboration with NGO partners, Iding managed several (complex) projects in wildlife conservation that have vast arrays of technical, managerial and social aspects (spatial, data analyses, socio-cultural, education and art, voluntaries, academic and science, inter-agencies relations, and policies).

BSc in forestry at Bogor Agricultural University, and a professional course in Geo-Information Management at ITC Enschede. More than 20 years of experience in the field of GIS, Remote Sensing, HCV, HCS, and landscape conservation.

MSc. Forestry and land use, University (2000). Territorial rights, mapping and participatory monitoring in relation to several industries (mining, logging, oil palm, protected areas, safari hunting and carbon).

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Executive Training Program. Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.Environmental Analyst. Universidad del Salvador, Argentina, 2000-2004. Jimena is ALS Senior Quality Officer at the HCV Network Secretariat.

Bsc Forestry, MSc Business systems.

Msc in Forest Science, 10 years experience working with socioenvironmental projects and Native forest management certification in Brazil. Experience with Quality system assurance including peer review process

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

Ph.D. Landscape Ecology, Oxford Brookes University. Researcher monitoring wild ungulate response to conservancy creation and management.

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BSc in forestry at Universitas Gadjah Mada Faculty of Forestry. Currently doing MSC studies at Northern Arizona University. Worked 4 years as an auditor for standards that consider the HCV Approach: FSC, VLC and SAN standards.

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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.

MSc Tropical Ecology, Universidade Federal do Paraná.
BSc in Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Over 10 years of experience as a biodiversity expert and wildlife ecologist.

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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.

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Engineering Geologist, University of Pretoria.
More than 20 years working on environmental and social aspects of large-scale projects, including large-scale agriculture, mining, infrastructure, oil and gas, and heavy industry.

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

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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.

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MSc environmental science policy and management (Erasmus Mundus ), BA in development economics (Palermo).
Ongoing MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing by Lund University.
Specialised in indigenous people land management issues, customary rights, and, in general, social development.

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Agricultural Systems with a Major in Agronomy and Honours in Applied Science for International Development.
10+ years of experience in sustainability, environmental management, socio-economic development, and FPIC practices.

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Ecology and Forestry Management. MSc Forestry Management, University of Aberdeen. B.Sc., Ecology (Hons). University of Leeds. 12 years of experience with HCV assessments.

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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.

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BA in Medicine , Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia. 5 years of experience in leading and conducting HCV Assessment for industrial forest, palm oil and rubber companies in South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and Papua, as well as carbon projects.

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Ph.D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, MSc Science in Conservation Biology, Ecology, (2008) University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has 10 years of experience developing guidance for best practices in HCV ID, M&M, and the study of socio-ecological systems.

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MSc and PhD in Tropical Ecology.Expert on wildlife conservation. She has over 15 years' experience in natural resource management, forestry sector, local communities, and national wildlife authorities.

Ph.D. London School of Economics. Development Studies/Political Economy.
7 years of experience on social aspects of voluntary certification standards in the commodity production sector, including the RSPO, HCSA and FSC.

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MSc. Climate Change, Development and Policy, University of Sussex.

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MSc Forest Management. Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester UK. BSc Geographical Science University of Portsmouth, UK.

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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. He's a Quality Panel member.

MSc. in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University. He speaks Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Bachelor froBachelor from faculty of forestry and master degree on natural resources management and environment from IPB University. More than 17 years of experience in a field of GIS, remote sensing and environmental management.

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.

MSc. From France, working mainly in Africa with more than 11 years of experience in auditing forestry and oil palm, Environmental Impact Assessments and HCV assessments.

Bachelors degree in Tropical Forestry and Masters degree in Landscape Ecology.

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MSc Forestry in International Development, Michigan State University.BSc on Forest Management Purdue University.Stephen has 26 year' experience with value chains, particularly in palm oil, timber, rubber, coffee, cocoa, and tea.

PhD in Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Melbourne, Australia. Master of Science in Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation, Mississippi State University. Bachelor (S1) degree in Forest Resource Conservation, Bogor Agriculture Institute.
30 years of experience revising the HCVF Guideline/Toolkit 2008, development of PHPL and PHTL forest certification standards; HCVF trainer (Remark Asia and WWF). Experience in Strengthening Community Based Forest Management, Forest Landscape Restoration, biodiversity conservation, and member of Quality Assessor team for RA work in 2017 on GSEP-POIG assessment for GAR-APP.

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MSc Environmental Conservation. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
10 years working on biodiversity conservation and research.

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Yamila has a bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences. She is a GIS and Remote Sensing specialist with over 15 years of experience in environmental and land use projects. She has solid knowledge of fieldrealted geographic mapping and data compilation. Yamila is based in Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish and English.

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PhD Forestry. Universiti Malaysia Sabah. He has 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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Forestry degree from Bogor Agricultural University and a master’s degree on Environmental Management from Yale University. FSC Forest Management Auditing, Indonesian Timber Legality Assurance System (TLAS), Sustainable Agricultural Network (SAN) and ISO 9000:2015. He is a Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) auditor and has participated in field assessments across timber, palm oil, and other sectors.

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