BOEN PURNAMA
Senior Expert to the Minister, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia

Following his five-year role as the secretary general of the Ministry of Forestry in Jakarta, Boen Purnama became senior advisor to the Minister. Previously, he was director general of the Agency for Forest Planning and the director or head of various centres and institutes within the Ministry of Forestry. He started his career as a researcher in the Forest Products Research Institute (FPRI) in Bogor, Indonesia.

Purnama has been actively involved in various international activities including bilateral and multilateral cooperation efforts with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Germany's Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and others. He was chair of the UNFF-8 Bureau of the United Nations Forum on Forests.

Purnama received his bachelor's degree in forestry from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and his PhD in forestry (resource economics) from Michigan State University.

CHARLES V. BARBER
Forest Division Chief in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, US Department of State

Charles V. Barber is currently forest division chief in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, US Department of State, where he leads and coordinates US multilateral and bilateral relations concerning forest policy. From 2005 to 2009, he served as a focal point for multilateral environmental treaties and institutions at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). From 2002 to 2004, Barber served as an independent consultant on forest, coral reef and biodiversity issues for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and a variety of UN agencies and NGOs. From 1989 to 2001, he was a senior research associate with the World Resources Institute, working on forest, coral reef, protected areas, biodiversity publications and policy advocacy.

Barber has travelled and worked throughout the Asia—Pacific region, including living for 11 years in Indonesia and the Philippines. He received his PhD in jurisprudence and social policy, JD and MA in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

CHEN XIAOQIAN
Associate Professor, Beijing Forestry University School of Economics and Management; FLEGT Facilitator in China, FLEGT Asia Programme European Forest Institute

Chen Xiaoqian obtained her PhD in forestry economics and policy from Beijing Forestry University School of Economics and Management in June 2000, and started working at Beijing Forestry University School of Economics and Management in September 2000. In addition to teaching and supervising graduate students, Chen has also been involved in many domestic and international research projects on forestry trade and investment over the past 11 years, and particularly during the past five years. She worked as forest policy advisor for The Nature Conservancy's USAID-funded Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade (RAFT) Programme China project from January 2009 to October 2011; project manager for TNC's China programme Green Wood and Sustainable Forest Management Project from October 2006 to January 2008; writer of the China country report titled 'FAO Asia Pacific Forest Outlook 2010' for the FAO's Asia Pacific forest office from September 2008 to December 2009; financial and fiscal expert for Asian Development Bank's 'China's Six Forestry Ecological Programs and Poverty Deduction' project from January 2004 to March 2005. Chen has rich knowledge and project management skills in forestry economics, trade and investment areas in China and the Asia—Pacific region and has also published four books and over 25 articles.

DENG ZHIXIN
Country Manager of The Forest Trust, China

Deng Zhixin is country manager of TFT China supporting businesses delivering responsible products into markets through helping companies to comply with international legal and sustainable requirements (EUTR and US-Lacey). While managing the implementation of EU TTAP Programme (EU Timber Trade Action Plan) in China, he provides technical and operational solutions to Chinese companies for integrating their timber supply chains, in factories as well in forests.

He gained his PhD in Germany by working in a large-scale, interdisciplinary international development research project and was responsible for a working group on adaptation of agroforestry systems to climate change in West Africa. Deng has over 18 years operational and research experience in Asia, Europe and Africa, in forestry and related social, ecological and environmental areas. He has participated in FSC FM/COC auditor courses as well as in field FM/COC audits, has supported companies achieving their FSC certifications and has helped companies to successfully achieve the first ever VLO and the first VLC certificates in China.

DIAH RAHARJO
Programme Director, Indonesia Biodiversity Foundation (Yayasan KEHATI) for Forestry Governance and Multi-stakeholders Forestry Programme

Diah Raharjo facilitates the establishment of Indonesian Timber Legality Assurance System (TLAS) instruments and policy development. Her day to day work with MFP's team and the Ministry of Forestry and Verification Body in Indonesia, as well as Europe Union experts on timber legality, focuses on the improvement of forest governance with a particular focus on the negotiation and implementation of an EU–Government of Indonesia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT-VPA). In the programme, she works by strengthening government–civil society partnerships at local and national levels to build capacity, empower community forest managers, and develop and implement policy, in particular delivering a clear and significant contribution to policy formulation on forestry at national and subnational levels, in order that the flow and transfer of paradigm on forest-related dialogues is more structured: subnational, national, regional and global.

FAITH DOHERTY
Forest Team Leader, Environmental Investigation Agency

Faith Doherty has been involved in environmental and human rights work for over 20 years. Involved in the anti-nuclear movement, Faith was employed by Greenpeace Australia in the early 1980s, eventually working with Greenpeace International in their Nuclear Free Seas campaign. This included working with three of Greenpeace International's ships, the Rainbow Warrior, the SV Vega and the Moby Dick. In the early 1990s, Faith moved to Thailand where she worked with the human rights community with a special focus on Burma. Her work, together with the pro-democracy movement both within Burma and those in exile, also included issues related to the border regions of India, Bangladesh and China. In the late 1990s, Faith returned to the UK and joined EIA to work on their forests campaign. She has been engaged in many issues related to illegal logging and the associated trade with a focus on Indonesia, the Southeast Asian region and the consuming countries of Western Europe.

FRANCES SEYMOUR
Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research

Frances Seymour is director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an international research organisation with headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia, and offices in Asia, Africa and Latin America. At CIFOR, she led the formulation and initial implementation of a new strategy for the organisation focused on six priority research domains. She is co-author of the CIFOR report 'Do Trees Grow on Money?' and contributor to 'Moving Ahead with REDD+' and 'Realising REDD+'. Prior to CIFOR, Seymour founded and directed the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC. At the Institute she guided the launch of The Access Initiative, a global civil society coalition promoting citizen involvement in environment-related decisions. She also co-authored and contributed to the Institute's publications critically examining the role of public and private international financial institutions in promoting sustainable development. Previously, she served as director of development assistance policy at World Wildlife Fund, and spent five years in Indonesia with the Ford Foundation, where her grant-making focused on community forestry and human rights. Seymour holds a Master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a BS in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

HEIDI HILTUNEN
Environment Counsellor at the EU Delegation in Beijing, China

Heidi Hiltunen is the environment counsellor at the EU Delegation in Beijing, China, a position she has held since 2010. She has been working at the European Commission since 1996 on external relations, enlargement of the EU, enterprise policy and now cooperation on environmental and climate change policy with China. Before joining the European Commission she was a research fellow at the Finnish Institute for International Relations focussing on international environment cooperation. Hiltunen holds a Master's degree in political science, environment and development studies from the University of Tampere, Finland.

HUGH SPEECHLY
Coordinator, Forest Governance and Trade Programme, UK Department for International Development

Hugh Speechly has coordinated the UK's Forest Governance and Trade Programme since 2002. This supports implementation of actions to tackle illegal logging and its associated trade. A key part of his work has been oversight of UK inputs to development and implementation of the EU's FLEGT Action Plan and management of related DFID grants and contracts.

Speechly has botany and forestry degrees from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and the University of California at Berkeley. Following graduation he worked as a field forester for forest products companies in New Zealand and Sweden.

From 1977 to 1992, he worked for Silviconsult, a forestry consulting company. This included periods as an advisor on projects in Vietnam and the Philippines, and in project preparation and evaluation for international finance institutions in several countries in Africa and Asia.

He joined the inspection company Société Générale de Surveillance in 1992, where he led establishment of a new forestry business, including pioneering forest certification and timber export inspection systems. He was involved in audits of forest management in a range of temperate and tropical countries.

JACK HURD
Director, The Nature Conservancy's Regional Forest Programme in Asia-Pacific

Jack Hurd has worked on conservation and natural resource management issues with a primary emphasis on Southeast Asia and the Pacific Northwest of the United States for the past 20 years. He is currently the director of The Nature Conservancy's Regional Forest Programme in Asia—Pacific. In this capacity he leads TNC's regional forest carbon and REDD+ efforts as well as the USAID-funded Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade (RAFT) Programme, a five-year effort designed to influence the public policies and corporate practices that drive the global trade in forest products. Previously he was the director of TNC's Forest Trade Programme which addressed the US dimension of this work, and the conservation director with TNC's Washington chapter, overseeing forests, freshwater, grasslands and marine work across the state.

Prior to joining TNC, Jack worked in a number of capacities with the World Wildlife Fund in both Asia and Europe; in Washington, DC, with Pact, an international development organisation; and in Bangkok with Thailand's Population and Community Development Association. Jack holds a Master's in public administration from the University of Washington and a BA in economics from the University of Vermont.

PETRUS GUNARSO
Programme Director of Tropenbos International Indonesia Programme

Petrus Gunarso received his PhD from the School of Natural and Rural System Management, University of Queensland, Australia, in 2004. His PhD dissertation was titled, 'Nature Conservation in Indonesia in the 21st Century: Can Decentralisation Work?' He holds a Master's of Science in fisheries and wildlife from Michigan State University, USA, in 1988, and he obtained his bachelor's degree in forestry from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1982.

Since November 2007, Gunarso has been the programme director of Tropenbos International Indonesia Programme. Tropenbos Indonesia is a Dutch foundation promoting sustainable development through its vision to make knowledge work for forests and people. Gunarso was the secretariat coordinator of Asia Forest Partnership from January 2006 to November 2007. From August 2005 to December 2006, he participated in the development of IUCN Guideline on Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Production Forest and tested the implementation of the guideline for Indonesia. He was assigned as Malinau research forest coordinator for CIFOR from 2002 to 2005.

DAIJI KAWAGUCHI
Deputy Director, Wood Products Trade Office, Forestry Agency, Government of Japan

Daiji Kawaguchi joined the Forestry Agency of Japan after obtaining a Master's degree in forest hydrology at the University of Washington, USA. During his career, he served three years at the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia and two years at the Ministry of the Environment. He is now in charge of illegal logging and associated trade at the Forestry Agency.

HERLINA HARTANTO
Learning and Application Senior Manager and Coordinator, community forestry programmes in Berau, East Kutai and Central Sulawesi

Herlina Hartanto joined the Indonesia Forest Programme of The Nature Conservancy in 2009 as its learning and application senior manager. She is currently coordinating the Conservancy's community forestry programmes in Berau, East Kutai and Central Sulawesi. She was a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) from 1997 to 2005, undertaking research on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, adaptive collaborative management of community forests and collaborative monitoring. She obtained a PhD from Monash University, Australia, on the political ecology of customary forest institutions in Central Sumatra, Indonesia.

THOMAS PAKA
Executive Director of the Papua New Guinea Eco-forestry Forum

Thomas Paka is currently the executive director of the Papua New Guinea Eco-forestry Forum which is one of the umbrella organisations with a membership of over 20 NGOs that are carrying out community development projects in different provinces and communities. The organisation promotes sustainable forest management in Papua New Guinea through good governance and works with different organisations and institutions including schools to promote awareness on environmental and resource governance issues.

Paka's role is to ensure that issues of corruption and mismanagement in the forestry industry and other natural resource development sectors are adequately addressed. The Papua New Guinea Eco-forestry Forum believes in fairness, transparency and accountability.

Paka graduated from the University of Papua with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in 1994 focussing on forestry issues. He has promoted environmental and developmental issues since 1996 in different capacities ranging from leading campaigns to round table consultation meetings both with the private sector and the government.

Paka also serves on a number of boards and committees including the National Forest Board making contributions to policy formulation and implementation strategies.

CHEN YONG
Deputy Director, Center for International Forest Products Trade, Chinese State Forest Administration

Chen Yong is currently the deputy director of the Center for International Forest Products Trade, Chinese State Forest Administration (SFA), in charge of a joint study on a Chinese Timber Verification System project funded by DFID. As an expert on SFA, he also provides support for China–EU, China–Japan and China–Austrian cooperation to combat illegal logging and associated trade, as well as for the China–US Strategic Economic Dialogue on combating illegal logging and associated trade. From 2007 to 2008, he represented SFA in the Expert Meeting on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry of the China–Korea FTA (Free Trade Agreement) Joint Study. He is currently carrying out a study on forestry economy, forestry policy and forest products trade policy at the Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, in Haidian District, Beijing, China.

KRYSTOF OBIDZINSKI
Scientist, Forests and Governance Programme, CIFOR

Krystof Obidzinski is a scientist with the Forests and Governance Programme at CIFOR. He obtained his PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a thesis exploring the history of illegal logging practices in Kalimantan, Indonesia. His thesis examines the evolution of stakeholder coalitions associated with illegal timber and delves into the role of illegal timber in local politics and economy, finding enduring commonalities through time. He has extensively researched the political economy of the forestry sector in Indonesia, particularly the social, economic and environmental impacts of illegal logging and the illegal timber trade. He has also researched regulatory and market mechanisms to reduce illegal logging. In recent years, his research has focused more on the impacts of global investment and trade in commodities affecting forested landscapes in the tropics with particular interest in the impacts of oil palm development and timber plantation expansion in Indonesia. By examining these extractive regimes, Obidzinski hopes to generate information on possible obstacles or barriers to the implementation of sustainable forestry practices, including REDD+.

NGUYEN TUONG VAN
Deputy Director, Science, Technology and International Cooperation Department, Vietnam Administration of Forestry

Nguyen Tuong Van is deputy director of the Science, Technology and International Cooperation Department, Vietnam Administration of Forestry, a position she has held since 2010. She is also chief of the FLEGT Standing Office since Vietnam has been officially involved in negotiations with the European Union on a Voluntary Partnership Agreement. Since 2005 she has been the deputy director of the Forest Sector Support Partnership, working with 25 international partners, and a member of the Board of Trustees of RECOFTC since 2009. Working for the forestry sector in Vietnam for 20 years she has had tremendous working experience especially in forestry development projects and in the field of forestry community. In her current position, Van coordinates a Vietnamese negotiation team with the EU on the development of Vietnam Timber Legality Definition and Timber Legality Assurance System.

Vincent van den Berk is the head of the European Forest Institute Asia regional office in Kuala Lumpur. The regional office was formally established in October 2009 and is based at the Finnish Embassy to Malaysia. He coordinates the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Asia Regional Programme. This programme is implemented in close collaboration with the EU and aimed at implementing the EU FLEGT Action Plan in Asia. It focuses on promoting international trade in verified legal timber within Asia and exported from Asia to other consumer markets.

Vincent has worked for the European Commission at the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He was the EU FLEGT Advisor for Malaysia, supporting the FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) negotiations between the EU and Malaysia, and the Asia region since April 2006.

Louis Putzel is a scientist in the Forests and Governance Programme of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia. His main research interests relate to the economic botany of tropical timber and the connections between logging, smallholder forest management and global markets. His work currently focuses on two CIFOR projects: 'Chinese trade and investment in Africa: Assessing and governing trade-offs to national economies, local livelihoods and forest ecosystems' and 'Policy and regulatory options to recognise and better integrate the domestic timber sector in tropical countries'. Prior to joining CIFOR, Putzel was associated with the New York Botanical Garden's Institute for Economic Botany as a biology doctoral student in the CUNY Plant Sciences programme, where he completed a dissertation related to the Chinese timber trade in Peruvian Amazonia and the growing demand for shihuahuaco (Dipteryx spp.), a valuable and ecologically important hardwood timber. Putzel previously worked in the field of conflict resolution in central Africa as well as in the private sector in Hong Kong and China. 

Research theme
Managing impacts of globalised trade and investment on forests and forest communities
Key areas of expertise
Effects of forestry policy and global trade on forest cover and quality and on forest-based livelihoods
Designation
Multidisciplinary biologist; economic botanist
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Chinese

Phuc Xuan To is the Southeast Asia analyst for the Forest Trade and Finance Programme of Forest Trends, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. He received his doctoral degree in human geography at Humboldt University in Berlin in 2007, where he also worked as a junior researcher at the Junior Research Group on Post-socialist Land Relations. His dissertation examines the political economy of the forest sector in Vietnam, with particular attention given to the dynamics of access and control over forestland and forest resources. From 2007 to 2009, To was a post-doctoral fellow at the Anthropology Department of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he was involved in a research project entitled 'The Challenges of Agrarian Transitions in Southeast Asia (ChATSEA)'. Recently To has been focusing on PES including REDD+, particularly on REDD+ benefit distribution system. In addition, he has been heavily engaged in the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) processes in Vietnam.

Barber Cho attended Magwe College under Mandalay University from 1970 to 1974 and gained a BSc in chemistry. From 1975 to 1992, he worked as senior technician at the Precision Measurement Department in state-owned heavy industry.

In 1992, he entered the timber trade as the manager of a Thai timber company in Myanmar taking responsibility for log extraction. Private companies were banned from extracting logs in 1994, and Cho worked as general manager (marketing) of a wood based manufacturing company. In 1998, he moved to Thailand to work as managing director of a timber trading company for three years, before forming an agency or trading company to operate in the timber trade sourcing logs and sawn timber from Myanmar for the EU, China and Japan.

In 2004, Cho became a member of the Myanmar Timber Merchants Association (MTMA), a unique association in Myanmar representing the different sectors: industry, trading, plantation, logistics and the contracted extractors, etc. In 2006, he was selected as an executive committee member of the MTMA, taking responsibility for promotion of the international trade.

In 2010, Cho was selected as joint secretary general of MTMA and assigned the following tasks:

• To assist the Timber Certification Committee of Myanmar
• To execute the awareness-raising of MTMA members for the certification
• To initialise the informal relationship with FLEGT-Asia
• To draw up a code of conduct for the timber trade in Myanmar
• To enhance the existing relationships with international organisations in the timber trade, such as ITTO, MTIB, MTC and MTCC and Asean Furniture Industry Council (AFIC).

Teguh Rahardja has worked for the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry for the past 20 years. He is now in charge of multilateral affairs, which includes various UN-related bodies (FAO, UNFF, UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD, ITTO, WB, etc.), along with the accompanying initiatives such as the Forest Investment Programme, UNREDD, FCPF, and GEFF. Also under his portfolio are other international organisations such as CIFOR, ICRAF and IUCN. Previously, he was with the Bilateral Division as well as the Regional Division. He also spent nearly a year part-time at CIFOR in 2009 to help with the Asia Forest Partnership secretariat.

Rahardja is a forester by training, starting with a bachelor's degree at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, where he also obtained a bachelor's degree from the English Department of Yogyakarta State University. He got his Master's of Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and his PhD from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Chen Hin Keong has over 20 years experience working on conservation and environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region. During the course of his career, he has worked with and interacted with a wide range of civil organisations. He has been working with TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, for the last 15 years, initially as director of TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, and for the past 12 years as the Global Forest Trade Programme Leader, working on timber supply chain transparency and forestry governance issues, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Chen coordinated the development of a common framework for assessing the legality of forestry and the timber trade for seven countries. This framework can be considered the best compilation of the laws into a set of principles and criteria that encompasses all aspects of forestry, management, processing, industry and trade of timber. 

Hu Yanjie obtained her PhD in community forestry in 2001 from Beijing Forestry University (BFU) School of Forest Resources and Environment. She is currently an associate professor at the Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry. Since 1996, her research has focussed on forest products market and trade policy, SFM and forest certification, and social forestry networks. Her main projects include: 'ITTO Project PD 480/07 Rev.2(M) Outlook for Demand and Supply of Tropical Wood in China in 2020' (2010–2012), 'ITTO Project PD 171/02 Rev.4(M) Transparency in Trade Flows and Distribution of Tropical Wood Products in China' (2005–2007), 'Support Policies of Private Forestry Development in the World' (2006–2008), 'Comparative Study of Forest Tenure Arrangement between China and Some Developed Countries' (2007–2008) and the Asia Pro Eco programme funded by the EU entitled 'Feeding China's Expanding Demand for Wood pulp: A Diagnostic Assessment of Plantation Development, Fiber Supply, and Impacts on Natural Forests in China and in the South East Asia Region' (2004–2005) among others.

Iman Santoso joined the Ministry of Forestry in 1979. In his long career with the ministry, he has served as head of divisions before becoming director of social, economic and forest policy for the Forest Research and Development Agency in 2007 and director of forest utilization planning in 2009. He earned his bachelors degree in forestry from Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) and a master's degree in forestry from Michigan State University.