Heru Santoso is the Project Coordinator of the TroFCCA project in Asia. Before working with TroFCCA, he has been working at the Research Centre for Geotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) as a researcher. His research interests are on adaptation to climate change and modeling the impact of climate change on water resources.

Daniel Murdiyarso is a senior scientist in CIFOR and has interests on global change research, including topics such as climate change (adaptation and mitigation), carbon cycling and land use change. Before joining CIFOR, Daniel is a professor at Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB), Department of Geophysics and Meteorology. He was also the Deputy Minister of Environment for Natural Resources Management Policy Formulation and he is still one of the Board of Trustees members for World Agroforestry Center (previously ICRAF).

Hety Herawati is a Research Programme Assistant to CIFOR's Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Program. WithinTroFCCA, she helps the coordinator in ensuring smooth processes of all activities and is also involved in the Asian science-policy dialogue mechanism processes. Her background is Forestry and Agroforestry.

Yulia Siagian is a Research Assistant at CIFOR's Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Program. Within TroFCCA-SEA, her research interests are to identify and analyze the ongoing policy generated data on climate change adaptations and to conduct the Policy Network Analysis for Asia region. Her background is Forestry and socio-economist by practice.

Rodel D. Lasco is currently the country coordinator of the World Agroforestry Centre in the Philippines. He is the Coordinating Lead Author/Lead Author. Intergovernmental Pane on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1999 up to the present. He is one of the leading experts on global change in the Philippines. He has been and currently is leading numerous studies on carbon and climate change vulnerabilities, adaptation and mitigation).

Florencia B. Pulhin is a Researcher from the College of Forestry and Natural Resources (CFNR), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). Effective July 1, she took a leave of absence from UPLB to join ICRAF-Phils. She obtained her Ph. D. degree in Forestry from UPLB with major in Silviculture and minor in Environmental Science. She has rich experience in implementing researches in forestry. Her research involvements for the last ten years focus on tropical forests and climate change specifically on assessing carbon stocks in various land uses in the Philippines, Greenhouse Gas inventory on Land Use Change and Forestry and adaptation to climate change. She has attended various local and international conferences and trainings on climate change and presented papers or posters in some of these meetings. She has also published a number of papers in scientific journals.

Patricia Ann J. Sanchez is an agricultural engineer for land and water resources engineering and waste management. She has great interest on global climate change and is currently doing modeling work on the impacts of climate change in Philippine forests.

Rafaela Jane Delfino is a Research Assistant at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Philippines. Prior to TroFCCA, she is with the APN Funded Project entitled: Linking Climate Change Adaptation to Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of the Philippines Los Baños on April 2007.

Arief Darmawan is a student from Indonesia who is now pursuing a PhD from 2006 at the Tokyo University. His first degree is in forestry from Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia. He has a Master degree in Global Forest Environmental Science from the University of Tokyo. Before joining the University of Tokyo, Arief worked for a logging company in Kutai, Kalimantan and at WWF Indonesia Kayan Mentarang National Park as a GIS Officer. Arief will develop a research on estimating forest fire risk using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and a GIS.

Danan Prasetyo Hadi is an Indonesian student taking MSc at the Bogor Agriculture University. He received the first degree in Cartography and Remote Sensing from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He has been employed by the World Agroforestry (ICRAF) since 1997, and has a long experience in using GIS. Danan will develop forest fire risk/ hazard maps in Kalimantan based on a multi-criteria approach by using combined remote sensing and GIS techniques.