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Randall Bluffstone is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economics and the Environment at Portland State University. His research interests focus on environmental and resource economics, including climate change, energy, pollution control and deforestation in low-income countries. Professor Bluffstone is associate editor of the journal Forest Economics and is currently a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Nepal.

Victor Tsang is a Gender Officer and the UN-REDD gender focal point at UN Environment

UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre’s Charlotte Hicks provides capacity-building and technical support to project partners and stakeholders in REDD+ partner countries on multiple benefits, spatial planning and safeguards. She serves as Programme Officer, Climate Change and Biodiversity, at UNEP-WCMC. Charlotte can be reached at [email protected]

Sahan T. M. Dissanayake is Assistant Professor of Economics at Portland State University in the US and serves as a research consultant of IUCN – Sri Lanka

Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs is a Programme Officer at FAO Forestry Department and a member of the UN-REDD Programme Management Group.

Ellysar Baroudy is Lead Carbon Finance Specialist in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. She manages the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and the BioCarbon Fund. Elly has worked on results-based carbon finance programmes ranging from afforestation/reforestation to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) as well as agriculture.

Danae Maniatis is REDD+ Technical Specialist at UNDP.

Kimberly Todd is REDD+ Technical Specialist at UNDP.

Jonah Busch is an environmental economist who researches climate change and tropical deforestation. He is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development and the co-author of Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change.