Staff

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 in 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 was 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).

Herry Purnomo is currently a scientist at Forests and Governance Programme of CIFOR. He has a bachelor's degree in agricultural meteorology from Bogor Agricultural University, master's degree in computer science from a joint program between University of Indonesia and University of Maryland, USA, and doctor's degree in forestry from Bogor Agricultural University (2002). Previously he had been involved in projects of forest ecosystem management, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, forest certification, adaptive and collaborative management of forests, leveling the playing field and REDD payment mechanism, distribution and institutional arrangement. In the TroFCCA project, he will be working on criteria and indicator for vulnerability to climate change.

Hety Herawati is a Research Officer 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 Philippines country coordinator for the World Agroforestry Centre. He is the Coordinating Lead Author/Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Pane on Climate Change (IPCC) (1999 to present). He is one of the leading experts on global change in the Philippines. He leads 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 is particularly interested 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.