Staff

Johnson Nkem is trained in ecosystem management. He worked previously as a research scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University. His other experiences include working with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Australian Cotton Research Institute and in the Liverpool Plains Catchment in Australia. He is the global coordinator of TroFCCA.

Markku Kanninen is the Director of CIFOR's Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Program and TroFCCA is one of the projects in this programme. He has expertise in forest ecology, silviculture, forest management, and global climate change. He did his doctorate at the University of Helsinki.

Bruno Locatelli is an environmental economist in CIRAD and has been working in CIFOR, Indonesia since January 2008. From 2002 to 2007, he was working as a researcher and posgraduate teacher in CATIE, Costa Rica. His activities focus on climate change and forest, natural resource economics and complex system modelling.

Maria Brockhaus is an economist in forestry and agricultural sciences with a research background in conflicts over natural resources, policy analysis, and network analysis. Within TrofCCa she is involved in assessment of vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and financing mechanisms for environmental services, and in the science-policy dialogue.

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.

Rosita Go is a secretary to CIFOR's Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Program and TroFCCA project.

Popi Astriani is a secretary to CIFOR's Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Program and TroFCCA project.

Rina is an accountant to CIFOR's Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests Program and TroFCCA project.

Johnson Nkem is trained in ecosystem management. He worked previously as a research scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University. His other experiences include working with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Australian Cotton Research Institute and in the Liverpool Plains Catchment in Australia. He is the global coordinator of TroFCCA.

Monica Idinoba is a geographer with a strong climatological background. She has previously worked with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the West Africa rice development association (WARDA). Her current research interest focuses on climate change, variability and adaptation measures on tropical forest, including science-policy dialogue in West Africa. She is co-coordinating TroFCCA’s regional activities in West Africa.

Yacouba Noël Coulibaly is an environmental scientist who with expertise in plant (particularly sorghum) improvement for adaptation to drought. Yacouba worked previously at the centre for regional studies for the improvement of adaptation to drought (Centre d'Etudes Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation á la Sécheresse, CERAAS) in Senegal, where he specialized in plants and water conservation.

Fobissie Kalame is trained in natural resource management with a background in environmental science and forest resource management. Before joining TroFCCA, he was involved in an EU-Asian Link Project in Southeast Asia. In TroFCCA, he is focusing on policy relevant methodology for the assessment of vulnerability, adaptation and science-policy dialogue

Denboy Kudejira is a graduate student for a Master of Arts in Sustainable International Development (MA/SID) degree in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University (USA). Prior to that, he served as a Livelihoods Officer for Practical Action Southern Africa (an organization working on poverty alleviation with resource poor communities), and was responsible for coordinating livelihood initiatives in Chimanimani district of Manicaland province in Zimbabwe. Denboy recently joined CIFOR-West Africa Regional Office for a six months internship with the Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation (TroFCCA) project looking at the role of forests in the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) for Burkina Faso and Mali.

Javier Saborio is a civil engineer with expertise in computer Science, hydrology, and watershed management. His special interests are Geographic Information System & Remote Sensing, Risk Analysis & Management of Natural Resources

Raffaele Vignola is an agronomy engineer with expertise in environmental economics. His special interests are vulnerability and adaptation, risk assessment, water, policy-science dialogue.

Patricia Ramirez is a climatologist. In Trofcca, she works on climate change and variability scenarios and the interaction with climate modeling groups.

Lucio Pedroni is a forest scientist and the leader of the Global Change Group in CATIE. He is involved in Trofcca policy-science dialogue and the issues related with financial mechanisms.

Pablo Imbach is an agronomist with a specialization in watershed management. His special interests are Geographic Information System, landscape ecology and payment for environmental services.

Marcos Rugnitz Tito is a forest engineer. Within Trofcca, he works on bioclimatic modeling and database, for instance about species distribution. He is also involved in the policy-science dialogue.

Thomas Koellner was trained as biologist and economist. He is leading the research group "Ecosystem Services on Markets" at ETH Zurich. In TroFCCA he is developing an ecological economic model and assessment tool with respect to the insurance service of forest ecosystems.

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.

Dr. Carmenza Robledo is working for Intercooperation-Switzerland.

Dr. Isabelle Niang is a lecturer at the Geology Department of the University of Dakar since 1984. She has been involved in numerous climate change research activities, specifically climate change in relation to coastal zones. She is the one of the coordinating lead authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Working Group II (Chapter 9 on Africa). She is currently working with ENDA on vulnerability and adaptation activities, particularly in the ACCCA programme.

Dr. Max Campos has an academic background in Earth Sciences and Meteorology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and the University of Costa Rica. He has expertise in integrated water resources management, hydro meteorology and climate. He is the Executive Secretary of the Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources (CRRH) which is the water and climate agency for the Central America Integration System (SICA).

Dr. Nur Masripatin has backgrounds on forest biometric and forest planning. Currently she serves as the Secretary for Forestry Research and Development Agency, Forestry Ministry of Indonesia. She has been involved in climate change negotiations and other related initiatives.