About SAC

Rodney Taylor is a forest sector expert with senior multi-country experience in two international NGOs. He has expertise on corporate social responsibility, commodity certification, land-use, forestry and sustainable development.

Since October 2017, he leads the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forest Program as Director, responsible to oversee the Program’s overall leadership, management, outreach and fundraising. Prior to this, he was Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Global Forest Programme from 2007 to 2016.

Rodney also holds a position in the High Conservation Value Resource (HCV) Network as Co-Chair since 2014 and a Steering Group Member at the Accountability Framework Initiative since 2017. He’s been a Co-Chair of the Forests Dialogue between 2009 – 2015 and Editor in Chief of Living Forest Report.

Rodney holds a Master degree in Environmental Law from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws from Macquarie University. He was admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, in 1982. Five years later, in 1987, he was admitted as a lawyer of the National Court of Justice of Papua New Guinea.

Neil joined the Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) in January 2016. He has been active in tropical forestry for most of his career, including project management with FAO and UNDP in Bangladesh (1982-1984), the Nepal Australia Community Forestry Project (1986-1991) and was Assistant Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research (1993-1998) based in Indonesia.

Since 1980, Neil consulted internationally in the design and evaluation of forestry projects, especially in social and community forestry. He was the Commissioner responsible for environment, agriculture and natural resource management issues in the Australian Productivity Commission from 1998 to 2010.

Neil is Adjunct Professor in Environmental Economics at the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. In 2014 - 2015 he chaired an independent review of Biodiversity Legislation in New South Wales which led to the drafting of a new Biodiversity Conservation Act.

Currently serves as non-executive Director of Alluvium Holdings Ltd, the Institute of Foresters of Australia as well as Earthwatch Institute Australia, he was also a non-executive Director of a FSC-certified plantation forestry company in New Zealand for 4 years.

Neil completed his Bachelor of Science in Forestry at Australian National University, Canberra and received his Masters of Economics and PhD at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver.

PROFESSOR OF FOREST CONSERVATION AT UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Jeffrey Arthur Sayer is an expert in ecology and has worked throughout his career either as a researcher or program manager, mostly at the inter-face between research and practical natural resource management.

At present, he is Professor of Forest Conservation at University of British Columbia.

He has worked for FAO and IUCN and was a Senior Environmental Adviser at the World Bank. He was the CEO of Center for International Forestry Research from 1993 to 2001 and has also worked as Senior Associate and Science Advisor for WWF International from 2001 until present. He held the chair of International Nature Conservation at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

He was founding Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia and is now Senior Fellow of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Jeffrey is a member of the Science and Partnership Council of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research and has authored papers in peer reviewed journals and a number of books on natural resources topics. He has taught a Master’s program at the University of Utrecht and has been a frequent guest lecturer at universities in Holland, United Kingdom, United States of America and several other countries. Jeffrey has been an invited speaker at numerous scientific and conservation meetings in many countries and have given keynote addresses at a many international conferences and for the past few years he has given a major public addresses on forest or environment topics.

Bastien Sachet became CEO of Earthworm Foundation in January 2016, which marked his tenth year at the organisation. He began working at Earthworm Foundation as a member manager before becoming a director in 2011. His background and experience in business and agriculture are well linked to Earthworm Foundation’s work between two worlds of business and nature. He has helped to coordinate Earthworm Foundation’s palm oil strategy, heading up teams in France, Switzerland and Africa, and launching the Rurality programme, which works to empower smallholder farmers. In 2018, he launched the Living Soils initiative, dedicated to accelerating regenerative agriculture and soil health.

Prior to joining Earthworm Foundation in 2006, Bastien worked for several years in Brazil, Australia, England and Argentina, where he led product and sales teams in logistics and agro-business for Hamburg-Sud and the Roullier Group respectively.

In 2000, Bastien graduated his bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (Agro Paris Tech). He then completed his postgraduate degree in marketing and strategy at the University of Paris IX Dauphine.

Dr. Dinna Prapto Raharja is a distinguished senior advisor in public policy and an Associate Professor in International Relations at Bina Nusantara University. Certified by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Indonesia, she is a renowned scholar with extensive international networks and has represented Indonesia on a range of diplomatic initiatives. She has authored numerous publications on health politics, labour issues, social security and human rights.

Notable roles include representing Indonesia in human rights negotiations at the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (2016-2018), serving as a member of the Expert Team and Chair of Migrant Worker Prevention and Protection in Destination Countries (November 2020-December 2021), and chairing the National Assessment for the Paritrana Award from the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture and the Workers Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan). She was also a member of the selection panel for the National Social Security Council (2019-2024) and led the Working Group on Health, Employment and Population in the transition team of President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla in 2014.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Universitas Indonesia and earned her master’s degree and PhD from Ohio State University, U.S., under full scholarships. Her media and scientific publications can be found under the name Dinna Wisnu or her current name.

Dr. Fahmuddin Agus is a senior soil scientist at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia, with long-standing expertise in peatland and upland management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories.

His career has focused on advancing sustainable agricultural practices and strengthening the scientific basis for climate change adaptation and mitigation, particularly in agriculture and forestry. Much of his research has been conducted through international collaboration, addressing land management and environmental challenges in Indonesia and abroad.

From 1984 to 2022, Dr. Fahmuddin worked as a soil scientist at the Soil Research Institute under the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Ministry of Agriculture. He was appointed Principal Researcher in 2008 and Research Professor in 2012.

He has played key roles in national and international scientific and policy initiatives, including as a member of the Independent Peat Expert Working Group (2020–2025) and in peatland management programmes in collaboration with various institutions, including CIFOR-ICRAF and universities. He also served as a member of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2015 to 2023 (6th Assessment Report period).

Dr. Fahmuddin studied soil science at Universitas Andalas, Indonesia, and obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in soil science from North Carolina State University, USA.