Who we are

Adinda Hasan is the Knowledge Coordinator at the Global Landscapes Forum, working closely with all teams to ensure GLF’s broad knowledge base is embedded across core activities, including GLF events, GLFx, the Landscape Academy, Youth in Landscapes, the Knowledge Hub and communications and outreach. Adinda has worked in programme management, partnership engagement and communications over the past ten years, across multiple sectors including the environment, health, education and women’s and children’s rights.

Ali Mahfud is a passionate WordPress developer with 8+ years experience in building high quality WordPress themes and plugins. He is a developer who usually solves problems in different ways. He has joined Globallandscapes forum in December 2018 as a web developer consultant of the globallandscapes forum.

Anna Bucci works with the Global Landscapes Forum since 2018, and since 2019 she has been coordinating all GLF youth programs, working in close collaboration with the Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL). As youth coordinator, Anna supports the GLF in creating more opportunities for youth involvement, networking, mentorship, training, and more. In the last two years she had the opportunity to co-design and plan in-person workshops prior GLF events, as well as on the ground experiences as the Youth in Landscapes Camp or the Restoration Stewards program, and digital learning programs as the "Biodiversity: A Digital Journey".

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Ardini Raras has computer science and economic management background. She completed her graduate both diploma and bachelor degree in Bogor Agricultural University. For more than 10 years she works related to database, information system also website development. Previously she worked as Consultant under Web Team, CoE. At present, she works as Web and Digital Marketing Administrator.

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Arne heads up the digital strategy for the Global Landscapes Forum (and for CIFOR-ICRAF) and since 2019 has helped shape GLF's digital platforms and online outreach. Experienced as a serial internet entrepreneur and digital marketer, Arne is now focusing on double bottom lines and how to help mission-driven organizations changing the status quo for future generations. Arne is passionate about innovative digital solutions and organizational models as a conduit to positively impact humanity's relationship with the environment.

Cora van Oosten has a passion for landscapes, in particular their governance. She considers governance to be key to successful landscape restoration, as it addresses the principle question of who decides on what to restore, where, how and for whom. Over the past 30 years Cora spent most of her time living and working on long term postings in remote landscapes in Africa, Latin America and Asia. She worked as advisor, team leader and manager of landscape projects, always putting stakeholder participation and capacity development at the forefront. Throughout the years, place making has become Cora’s second nature, as she found joy in adapting to and blending in the biophysical, social and cultural identities of her new homes. Currently, Cora is based in the Netherlands. She works at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, running a project portfolio on landscape governance, training and learning across the globe. She also works at Global Landscapes Forum, supporting its dynamic team in the design of learning products, including the Landscape Academy, which is a multi-party initiative to promote Restoration Education for All.

Dinny Saputri works as an Events and conference assistant. Before joining the events team in 2018 as an Event assistant, In 2017 she initial work with CIFOR’s Knowledge sharing team as Database consultant. She support Communications, Outreach and Engagement – Global Landscapes Forum event team in the planning, administration and delivery of event and conference. She completed her undergraduate in the Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism at the Faculty of Forestry from IPB University.

Emmi Riikonen is the Social Media Coordinator at the Global Landscapes Forum. Having a background in political sciences and languages, she has worked in several countries across Europe, both for the private sector and NGOs. She joined the GLF in 2019, after moving to Germany from Belgium, where she led the communications of the Green Vice President of the European Parliament. Previously, she worked as a Communications Officer for the Green Party of Finland, responsible for visual communications and social media campaigns. Outside of the office, you can find her painting portraits, taking photos or trying out new vegetarian recipes.

Gabrielle Lipton runs the GLF’s news platform Landscape News, including hosting its live Q&A series GLF Live. She has been with the GLF since 2018, inspired by the opportunity to spread knowledge and awareness about the state of nature through reporting and creative storytelling. She is a trained journalist, having built her career in New York and Jakarta at renowned travel magazines and a political consulting firm before shifting to environmental reporting for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Bylines range from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal. She also runs, meditates, makes ice cream and is finishing a fiction novel.

Gideon Suharyanto is a production team coordinator. He joined CIFOR’s communications unit last twenty years ago as a desktop publishing officer. Before joining CIFOR, he worked as a publishing specialist for six years with USAID in Jakarta. In March 2013, he was promoted to production team leader where he led the CIFOR publications team and was afforded greater responsibility to coordinate all work requests submitted to the CIFOR communication units; interacting with clients to develop production plans and priorities; managing work outsourcing processes for editorial, design, and typesetting consultants; and overseeing and reviewing their outputs.

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Jessica Ball is the knowledge sharing coordinator for the Global Landscapes Forum. She is a trained facilitator, specialising in Bohm dialogue and values based approaches. Since starting at GLF in 2018 Jessica has worked to bring creativity and inclusive participation to both physical and virtual events. She has thirteen years experience working for diverse organisations across international development, business, and charities. She is currently a trustee of the Human Values Foundation.

John has spent more than 30 years in Africa, South, East and Southeast Asia: including 10 years as the Director of Communications of CIFOR, where his team increased citations of publications more than ten times, media citations from 75 to 1900 per year, built more than 35 websites, and grew all social media platforms by double or triple digits from 2009-2019. In 2013 John and his colleagues developed and launched the concept of the Global Landscapes Forum, today the world’s largest forum on integrated land use with a social media outreach of 310 million and media outreach of 340 million. John spent more than 12 years as a foreign correspondent in radio, broadcast and print, five years with TIME Magazine where he served as Hong Kong Bureau Chief. As a journalist, he won numerous international and national awards. He has B.S. in forestry and a M.Ag in technical communication, both from the University of Minnesota, a M.A. in economic geography from the London School of Economics, and a MS. in journalism from Columbia University in New York.

Judith Sonneck helps lead the event, outreach and partner coordination team at the Global Landscapes Forum. She has worked in the human rights sector and on event coordination teams in four regions (Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia) with extensive experience in Western Africa and Central America. Before joining the GLF, Judith managed scientific conferences and helped pioneer a fairtrade beauty and health startup in Cologne, Germany. She can move easily between the political and grassroots sectors, and brings with her years of experience in marketing, communications, management, event coordination, advocacy, risk and security analysis and mental health implementation with a range of stakeholders including UN institutions, human rights defenders, Indigenous Peoples, private sector, youth, activists, artists, politicians, diplomats, etc. She speaks fluent German, English and Spanish.

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Kimberly Merten is the knowledge assistant coordinator for the Global Landscapes Forum. Kim is a nature conservationist, particularly interested in landscape governance and management. She has experience with large research projects, corporate environmental management systems, and was actively engaged in a small youth-based platform in Wageningen which she co-founded and nurtured in its early months.

Lily Hess joined the Global Landscapes Forum in August 2020 as the Landscape News Assistant, writing articles for Landscape News and helping with other related tasks.Originally from the US, she has been living in various parts of the world for the past few years for education and work. Before joining GLF, she worked as an academic editor and wrote for the Southeast Asia Globe. In her free time, Lily likes to read, do art and travel.

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Melissa Angel is the communications coordinator for the Global Landscapes Forum and since 2019 has helped lead GLF's communications and outreach efforts. Melissa Angel is a specialist in communications and behavior change, having worked in the public and private sectors for the past ten years, most notably with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the United Nations Climate Change secretariat. Originally from Florida, she has also spent time in California working with ocean nonprofits on activism and lobbying efforts to successfully shut down the driftnet industry.

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Mokhammad Edliadi is a Photo and Video Coordinator at CIFOR-ICRAF. Since the first Global Landscapes Forum 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, he has been responsible for the success of the audio visual aspect at the event venue as well as on the online platform including livestreaming. Edliadi is a photo/ videographer with more than 10 years of experience in major broadcast television in Indonesia. Joining CIFOR since 2011, he has involved extensively with many projects in producing scientific videos at several research locations in Asia and Africa.

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Salina Abraham serves as a Strategic Advisor and has worked with the Forum since 2017. Her work supports the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021 – 2030, the GLFx local action initiative and fundraising and growth opportunities. Prior to this as Youth Coordinator and then Learning Officer, Salina helped build the GLF Youth program running programs in Paris, Nairobi, Jakarta, Rome, Accra and more. As an Eritrean-American, Salina’s passion for green development across Africa has led her to explore the intersection of policy, environment, and development. She is a Master’s in Public Policy Candidate and Environmental Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Santi Darmokusumo works as a Customer Relationship Management Administrator. She oversees management of CIFOR’s Customer Resource Management database, coordinates knowledge-sharing initiatives, undertakes audience and media analysis for Communications, Outreach and Engagement. She completed her undergraduate in the Department of Library and Information Science at the Faculty of Communication from Padjadjaran University.

Sophie Callahan is a Knowledge Management Officer, specializing in monitoring and evaluation and contributing to creating, managing and sharing knowledge resources with the GLF community. She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Governance, and her previous research has focused on the role of social and economic inequality in land use governance in the Americas, Europe, Central Asia, and East Asia. Sophie also has engaged in grassroots organizing and community-led project development to support renewable energy transitions in the U.S. and Europe.

Stephanie Nitze joined the team in 2020 and coordinates the participation of diverse and rousing speakers for Global Landscapes Forum’s events. Any inquires and questions in that regard can go directly to Stephanie. With a background in sustainable textiles, she turned into the field of Natural Resource Management (M.Sc.) after working for UN Environment in Paris. She is curious and passionate to learn about the diverse shapes of the environmental movement -especially the individuals behind it, advocating for a more just future.

VitoGama is a professional event organizer who joined CIFOR in July 2015 as an events consultant before being recruited as Senior Events Officer. VitoGama Kaparang is a specialist in event planning and execution. He has more than 20 years of field experience in the event industry.

Wigid is an amateur swimmer, a morning runner and weekend cycling specialist. He has joined GLF as webmaster in 2018. His background with computer science helped him a lot with his technical ability, while his 8+ years of experience with non-profit organizations have sharpened his skill in working with high-level services and multicultural environments.