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He has more than 20 years of experience working in strategic communications for the World Bank and USAID in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Iraq, and South Sudan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from the University of California – Santa Cruz and a master’s in international relations from American University.

Karin Kaechele is a Carbon Finance Specialist at the World Bank's Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, based in Washington, D.C. Kaechele works on forest, landscape, biodiversity and climate change issues. She previously worked with the Bank's Climate Change department. She holds a master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, in environmental Science and Policy. She also has a master’s in environmental science from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Federal University Minas Gerais (Brazil).

Dr. David Ganz has over 28 years of experience in natural resource management including several years working in Asia on large-scale natural resource management and biomass energy projects. Before joining The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC), David served as the Chief of Party on SERVIR-Mekong, a joint initiative between USAID and NASA aimed at developing geospatial data to respond to the environmental and disaster needs of the region. Prior to SERVIR-Mekong, David was Winrock’s Chief of Party on USAID’s Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (USAID LEAF) Programme, where RECOFTC served as a key partner. He is a graduate of two distinguished community forestry institutions, holding a BSc from UC Berkeley, and a MSc and PhD from Yale University. He has successfully taken these skills into project management of international organizations including The Nature Conservancy, FAO, IUCN and WWF. David has also recently begun to serve as a CSO observer to the UNREDD Executive Program Board representing Asia and the Pacific.

Dr. Inge Jonckheere is a Belgian Environmental Engineer and obtained a PhD in Applied Bioscience and Engineering in 2005, at KULeuven (BE). She worked at the Università degli di Milano (IT), she was Guest Lecturer of the Geomatics Group at the Department of Land Management at KULeuven, combined with a mandate as Science Programme Manager for Environment at the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg (FR). She started working at FAO as Remote sensing expert in 2009. Since 2010, she is working as Team leader of the Remote Sensing group in the REDD+/NFM Team, supporting developing countries to set up national Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems. She is an official reviewer for LULUCF at the UNFCCC since 2012 and is Lead Author for AFOLU in IPCC since 2017 and Lead Author for the Sixth Assessment Report of IPCC. She has been involved in the SAFE work in FAO since 2015.