Claudio Forner joins CIFOR as Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation (TroFCCA) Project Manager. He has worked with the UNFCCC Secretariat and has a Masters degrees in Environmental Management & Development from ANU and a Master degrees in Environmental Management & Administration from Instituto de Investigaciones Ecológicas, Spain.
Terence C.H. Sunderland has started work in Bogor as a Forests and Livelihoods Scientist. He has previously worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society and has consulted for GTZ, CIFOR and the Smithsonian Institute. Terry holds a PhD from University College, London.
Johnson Nkem has started at the Burkina Faso office as a TroFCCA Project Coordinator. He has worked with Colorado State University, USA, the University of New England in Australia, and the Agroforestry International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cameroon. Johnson’s PhD is in Ecosystem Management from University of New England.
Heru Santoso is now a Project Coordinator for TroFCCA in Bogor. Heru has been working with the Research Centre for Geotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and obtained his PhD from the International Global Change Institute, New Zealand.
Cyriaque Nikuze Sendashonga is the new Regional Coordinator for Central Africa, based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Having trained as a biologist, Cyrie has been working with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She has also worked with UNEP Kenya and holds a PhD in Zoological Sciences from Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
Monica Idinoba joins CIFOR’s Burkina Faso office as a TroFCCA Scientist. Monica has worked with the Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and the West Africa Rice Development Association. Her PhD is in Climatology and Agroecological studies from University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Christiane Ehringhaus has joined CIFOR as a Forests and Livelihoods Scientist, based in the Belém office, Brazil. Her appointment is supported by Centrum für Internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM) Germany. Christiane has worked in Brazil previously, has taught with Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has a PhD from Yale, USA.
Mathurin Zida began with CIFOR in June 2005 as a Research Fellow. Based in Burkina Faso, he works on the Forests and Livelihoods’ Dry Forest project. His Masters Degree in Environmental Impact Assessment and Project Management is from the Angers 'Ecole Supérieure d’Agriculture', France.
Ganga Ram Dahal joined the Forests and Governance Programme as a Post Doctorate Fellow in September 2005. He earned his doctorate from the University of Reading, UK with a dissertation about Forest Governance and Institutional Structure in the Context of Devolution. Dahal has worked on natural resource management projects with bilateral and international organizations, particularly in Nepal.
Jean-Laurent Pfund joins CIFOR in January 2006 as Scientist in the Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Programme. Jean-Laurent is seconded to CIFOR from Intercooperation (Bern, Switzerland), where he was a Programme Officer on the Forest-Environment Team and oversaw the Biodiversity Project in Africa. He obtained a PhD in Natural Resources Management from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich.
Mireille Karambiri-Hein, joins CIFOR as a secretary at the Burkina Faso office. Mireille has worked as a Bilingual Executive Secretary at Diamond Cement, Burkina, and as Bilingual Executive Assistant at West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Accra. She has also taught English in Lycée Privé Newton. Mireille has Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Ouagadougou and Diploma in Bilingual Executive Assistance at the International Center for Professional Studies, Accra.
Moving on:
- Koen Kusters has finished his three-year assignment as a Dutch funded Associate Expert. Koen was a Research Fellow with Forests and Livelihoods and returns to the Netherlands to start his PhD at the University of Amsterdam.
- Dany Kurniawan, resigned in December 2005 after almost two years as a Research Assistant with CIFOR’s Forests and Livelihoods Programme. Dani has joined the Bank of Indonesia.
We would like to thank both Koen and Dany for their contributions to CIFOR and wish them every success.
Contributors:
Alison Ford, Charlie Pye-Smith, Daniel Tiveau, Eric McGaw, Greg Clough, Gideon Suharyanto, Heru Komaruddin, Hari Priyadi, Henny Saragih, Julia Maturana, Janneke Romijn, Kresno Dwi Santosa, Kristen Evans, Manuel Boissiere, Petrus Gunarso, Patrick Nyemeck, Renee Oyono, Patricia Shanley, Takeshi Toma, Yani Saloh and Ganga Ram Dahal.