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Johan focuses on green economy mainstreaming in development planning in Indonesia to address drivers of deforestation as well as work on improving the ability to address peat land fires and peat land management both through facilitating stakeholder engagement as well as providing high level policy advisory services.

Before joining the UN-REDD team Johan worked as UNDP technical specialist on sustainable development and climate change in Vietnam to mainstream climate change into development planning and facilitated the development of a green growth strategy including the development and management of a national marginal abatement cost curve. Previous work experience includes advising the AusAID funded Kalimantan Forest and Carbon Project, a REDD+ pilot project and serving as CARE assistant country director for Indonesia. He managed the UNORCID Green Economy Unit which was responsible to coordinate the international technical assistance to the Government of Indonesia on Green Growth and Green Economy related matters which included mainstreaming Green Economy into the planning system, facilitating development partner coordination and providing strategic policy advise.

He has worked with senior ministerial officials on various climate change and sustainable development related issues in diverse countries such as Indonesia and Macedonia, East Timor, Myanmar. Earlier Johan worked with a range of organizations in Indonesia for over a 15 years period. His work involved both project/programme management as well as delivering of technical advisory services in sectors such as rural development, community empowerment

Lera Miles is based at the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), coordinating its work on REDD+ benefits and safeguards in support of the UN-REDD Programme. In 2017, she led a rapid analysis on carbon, biodiversity and land-use in the Central Congo Basin Peatlands, following the discoveries announced in January that year.

Hans Joosten (1955) studied biology and worked as university researcher and policy officer (Ministry of Agriculture) in the Netherlands. Since 1996 he leads the Department of Peatland Studies and Palaeoecology of Greifswald University (Germany), partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre, since 2008 as an Extraordinary Professor.

His department studies peatlands in an integrative way at the crossroads between palaeo-ecology, ecology, landscape ecology, nature conservation and wise use. Key research topic is paludiculture, on which he edited the first handbook in 2016.

Since 2000 Hans Joosten is Secretary-General of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), the world organization of peatland conservationists. For IMCG he produced the books ‘Wise use of mires and peatlands’ (2002) and ‘Mires and peatlands of Europe’ (2017).

Since 2009 Hans has been intensively involved in UNFCCC negotiations and IPCC guidance development, especially with respect to accounting for emissions from organic soils, and in FAO in advancing climate-responsible peatland management. Since 2017 he is steering committee member of the Global Peatlands Initiative.
In 2010 Hans Joosten received an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Batumi for his efforts in studying and protecting the mires of Colchis (Georgia).

In 2013 he was awarded the European CULTURA Prize for Sustainable Land Use, and the Research Award Sustainability of the German Federal Government. In 2014 he was elected as foreign member of Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Akademi, the oldest learned academy of Norway. In 2018 “his” International Peat Mapping Team won the $1 million Indonesian Peat Prize.

« Dr Norbert GAMI, anthropologue, de nationalité Congolaise (Brazzaville), titulaire d’un Doctorat en Anthropologie alimentaire depuis 1992 à l’Université Aix-Marseille III en France.
Depuis 1995, je travaille comme anthropologue de la conservation pour l’aménagement et la valorisation des aires protégées en Afrique centrale sous le volet de l’implication des communautés Autochtones et locales dans la gestion durable des ressources naturelles.

J’ai travaillé pour les ONGs internationales et organismes sous régionaux suivants : Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Ecosystèmes Forestiers d’Afrique Centrale (ECOFAC – UE), Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales (APFT), The Forest Trust « TFT – sur la certification forestière FSC), Le Réseau des Aires Protégées d’Afrique Centrale (RAPAC) en Afrique centrale avec base à Libreville au Gabon.

Le travail de terrain a été dans les différents parcs nationaux du Congo Brazzaville (Odzala, Nouabalé-Ndoki, Conkouati, Lac Télé, futur parc Ogooué Lékéti). Plusieurs missions de terrain dans les aires protégées des pays d’Afrique centrale (République Démocratique du Congo, Cameroun, Gabon, Sao-Tomé et Principe, Guinée Equatoriale).
Mon travail était axé sur les droits coutumiers, l’accès aux soins de santé et l’amélioration du bien-être en général des communautés Autochtones, Mbendjellé, Ba Aka, Mikaya, Ba Kola, Ngombé, Tswa.
J’ai beaucoup travaille sur les connaissances écologiques traditionnelles des peuples des forets de l’Afrique centrale.
Enseignant vacataire à l’Université Marien N’Gouabi au Congo (Anthropologie alimentaire), au département d’anthropologie de l’Université Omar Bongo (Gabon) en écotourisme et valorisation des aliments traditionnels sur le plan touristique, a l’Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forêts (ENEF) au Gabon.
Actuellement, je travaille comme Conseiller Technique Principal en Socio-économie pour l’ONG Américaine Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) au Congo Brazzaville.
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Timothy Jessup is a technical and policy advisor, program leader, and researcher in the areas of forests and climate change, rural development, peatland restoration, and nature conservation with more than 25 years’ professional experience, mostly in Indonesia. He currently works for the Global Green Growth Institute, where he leads work on designing bankable projects for forest and land use, including peatlands.

Mr. Jessup previously worked for bilateral and multilateral development agencies, including AusAID, USAID, and the World Bank, and for several international NGOS. He has advised and collaborated with district, provincial, and national level government agencies including the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the Peatland Restoration Agency, and the National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS).