Elizabeth (Liz) Clarke is the Global Palm Oil Lead for WWF, the world’s leading conservation organization. Liz is on the Board of Governors for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and is an Organising Committee member of the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG). Prior to joining WWF, she managed the Business and Biodiversity Programme for the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), to include the global palm oil programme and the launch of the Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT), and was a sustainability consultant for AECOM. Liz is a Board Member for the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, and previously chaired the Biodiversity and Ecology section of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and served on the Executive Committee of the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP). Liz has a Masters in Environmental Policy from Cambridge University and a degree in Zoology from Imperial College, London.

Bilge Daldeniz was the technical lead  for the recent RSPO P&C Review process. At Proforest, Bilge is the Programme Director for International Programmes, which encompasses the International Training and the Support to Sustainability Initiatives programmes. Her technical work centres on the facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, the development and delivery of capacity building programmes, and direct support on sustainable production to agricultural commodity companies. Bilge speaks English, French, Spanish and German, and holds a BA in Politics and an MRes in Environment and Development from Lancaster University, UK.

Bilge has substantial knowledge of agricultural commodity, biofuel, forestry and tourism standards (e.g. RSPO, FSC, RSB, SAN, RA) and worked with the standard-setting organisation Ecotourism Australia. She spent four years carrying out research at the Centre for Tourism in Islands and Coastal Areas, University of Kent (CENTICA) and six years leading multi-country research at international research consultancy Intersperience. She has extensive experience in international development cooperation, including humanitarian relief work for CARITAS, education projects with UNESCO in Senegal, study semesters in Togo and Mexico, and fieldwork in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Since September 2007, Mr. Dias is the Social and Environmental Responsibility Manager of Agropalma Group in Brazil. He is an Agronomic Engineer by University of São Paulo and has a master science degree in Agribusiness by University of Brasilia, both Brazilian institutions.

For ten years, Mr. Dias has dedicated his professional life to environmental management and social responsibility of companies in sectors of agribusiness, rail roads and mining. Since 2008, also represents Agropalma Group in the chair of Fórum Amazônia Sustentável Executive Board, a Brazilian private multi-stakeholder initiative that promotes the dialog among different stakeholders and guide business activities in Brazilian Amazonia.

Audrey is trained as a biotechnologist. Following her own passion, she started her conservation journey with WWF-Malaysia in Sabah, working on issues related to timber certification and community development.

She joined the Roundatable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as the Biodiversity and Conservation Manager in 2011 and led the Impacts Unit of RSPO to establish impacts framework of RSPO certification via collaboration with research institution and internal data analysis, provide lesson learnt for continuous system improvement and ensure compliance to the ISEAL Impacts Code.

Currently, she is the Sustainability General Manager for Olam International Limited, a global agri-business operating across 66 countries supplying 47 different products, including palm, rubber, cocoa, coffee, etc

Perpetua “Pep” George has a career spanning work in forest conservation, sustainable production consulting, the FMCG industry, and oil palm plantations. Previously working for Unilever, Proforest, and WWF - she joined Wilmar in 2015 and is currently the General Manager for Group Sustainability in Wilmar International.

Her current responsibilities cover the implementation of sustainable practices in Wilmar’s plantation operations and spearheading the sustainable supplier transformation programme. She is also involved in wider engagement with stakeholders within the partnerships and initiatives that Wilmar belong too such as the HCSA executive committee, the Tropical Forest Alliance, and the Sabah Jurisdictional Approach Steering Committee. She is an active participant in various RSPO work streams, where she currently co-chairs the Smallholder Working Group, and is also the chair for the RSPO Smallholder Support Fund Panel.

Pep holds an MSc in botany and anthropology, and her research expertise is in the natural resource use of local communities – focussing on how land and different forest types are valued amongst the indigenous communities of Sabah. 

Faizal Parish is the Director of the Global Environment Centre, a Malaysian non-profit organization working throughout East and Southeast Asia on forest and peatland management, biodiversity, water resources and climate change. He is a wetland ecologist by training and has more than 35 years’ experience in assessment and management of peat swamp forests, mangroves and river systems. He is a Malaysian Permanent Resident and has been living in Malaysia since 1983. He has been the Director of Global Environment Centre since 1998 and is a Senior Technical Advisor of the ASEAN Programme on Sustainable Management of Peatland Ecosystems 2014-2020 (APSMPE).  He was a Lead Author for Wetland Chapter of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and a contributing author to the 2013 IPCC Wetland Supplement.

He has been actively involved in the oil palm sector since 2004. He was the Co-chair of the RSPO Peatland Working Group (2009-2012) and RSPO Emission Reduction Working Group (2013-2017) and is currently the Co-chair of RSPO Peatland Working Group 2 (2017-2020). He coordinated the preparation of Guidelines for Minimising the impact of Oil Palm Plantations and Mills on River Water Quality in Sabah (2011) and  the RSPO Manual for BMPs for oil palm cultivated on peatlands. (2012) and was lead author of the RSPO Manual on BMPs for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of natural vegetation associated with for oil palm cultivation on peatlands (2012). He has advised a number of oil palm companies on peatland management and emission reduction.

Johan Verburg is a strategic advisor on inclusive value chains and  multi-stakeholder partnerships. He has been representing Oxfam in the RSPO board of governors and various working groups. He is the initi-ator of the FAIR Partnerships model, the landscape approach to smallholder in-clusive growth, which has been co-created with private sec-tor (sustainable trade and impact investment) and civil society allies. Johan has over 25 years experience of driving change in complex and intercultural local-to-global and global-to-local working environments, with civil society as well as with business, in consultancy and NGO roles.

Rukaiyah Rafik (Uki) has been carving out career in NGO since 2000, starting as a Community Organizer volunteer with Walhi Jambi. During 2003-2005 she was the corporate campaigner with Sawit Watch Bogor. In 2007 she founded Yayasan Setara Jambi with a number of forest practitioners and has since been supporting independent smallholders by providing sustainable palm oil training and assistance.

She is also very active in various international and national forum. A graduate from the Environmental Science of Jambi University, and finished her Master in 2017, she is currently a ToT Trainer in sustainable palm oil certification.

With Yayasan Setara Jambi, she has successfully helped 2 independent smallholder`s group in Jambi and 4 similar groups in South Sumatera to obtain RSPO Certification.

Now, she also advisor of FORTASBI, and she is the head of FORTASBI School.

Ashwin Selvaraj joined the RSPO Secretariat in Europe in March 2016. In his current role, Ashwin assists companies that would like to switch to sourcing sustainable palm and palm kernel oil. In addition, Ashwin supports the certification bodies accredited for supply chain certification and also supports the Standing Committee on Trade & Traceability.

Ashwin is an engineer and holds an MBA in General Management from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining RSPO, Ashwin has worked as a Business Analyst for an Investment Bank in India and the US for 5 years, followed by 4 years in the Traceability team at UTZ Certified. Ashwin also has experience with inclusive business, participatory and sustainable development.

Ingrid Richardson works as a Senior Manager in the Sustainable Sourcing at Unilever, with responsibility for designing and managing smallholder projects, working particularly with independent palm oils mills and managing digital projects in palm. Prior to Unilever and for the past ten years, Ingrid worked across SE Asia for NGOs focusing on program design, monitoring and evaluation. Ingrid also has previous experience in Australia working for Rabobank in agricultural market analysis. Ingrid has a degree in Agricultural Science and a Masters in Sustainable Development specialising in Rural Development.

David Burns is the Senior Manager for Tropical Forests and Agriculture at the National Wildlife Federation – the oldest and largest conservation and education organization in the United States.  David works with the private sector, governments, and research institutes to eliminate tropical deforestation associated with the production of major agricultural commodities, such as palm oil, soy, and cattle products.  He leads NWF’s engagement on palm oil in Southeast Asia and South America, and recently co-authored two analyses of RSPO certification’s impact on deforestation and fire. David provides strategic counsel as a Steering Group member for the High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA) and Accountability Framework Initiative (AFi), and also follows the international climate negotiations, focusing on land use, REDD+, and agriculture. 

Prior to joining NWF, David consulted for the World Bank and Climate Focus, specializing in climate mitigation, carbon finance, and international policy. He holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and is based in Washington, DC.

Julia joined the RSPO Secretariat Office in July 2011. Prior to that, she was the Project Manager to one of WWF-Malaysia's landscape-based projects in Sabah.

Based in RSPO Secretariat Office in Kuala Lumpur, she is also responsible in managing the RSPO Smallholder Support Fund (RSSF). Julia has a Bachelor's degree in Social Science majoring in Mass Communication and Political Science, and a Master's Degree in Education Management.

Wathshlah G. Naidu first joined RSPO as the Grievance Manager in January 2017, and subsequently moved on to the position of Senior Manager of Grievance in September 2017. In this capacity, she is responsible for the strategic oversight and management of the overall Complaints System. This includes continuous strengthening of the complaints and DSF mechanisms and procedures, aimed at promoting effective resolution of complaints and disputes.

Wathshlah comes to RSPO with more than 15 years of experience in human rights and humanitarian fields, with specific focus on gender and women’s human rights. Armed with an LLM in International Law (majoring in Human Rights & Humanitarian Law), she’s worked globally and nationally with UN agencies, governments and women’s human right NGOs, dealing with law and policy reform and advocacy related to violence against women; access to justice; development and economic rights; migration and trafficking; and conflict, transition and post conflict situations.

Lukita has worked in Organization Development and the Private Sector since 1998, with experiences in retail, banking, airlines and palm oil. Her work in Organization Development started in 2004 with Save the Children UK as Government Relation Officer where she first learned about Children’s Rights advocacy and was introduced to CSR. In 2008 she joined Goodhope Asia Holdings one of RSPO member operating in Indonesia, becoming their Regional CSR Adviser until 2017, when she joined UNICEF Indonesia.

Her passion for corporate social responsibility led to two awards, first in Feb 2016 as one of the “100 Most Impactful CSR Leaders” in the World CSR Day Mumbai India, and in Aug 2016 with the “CSR Leadership Award” by CMO Asia in Singapore. She is also a member of the International Society for Sustainability Professional (ISSP), of the Institute of Certified Sustainability Practitioners (ICSP) in Indonesia, of the Human Rights Working Group of RSPO (2014/15-2017) and was co-chair for the INA FPIC Task Force (April – Sept 2017) during her days in Palm Oil.

With UNICEF Indonesia, her work is focusing on Private Sector Advocacy of the 10 Principles of Children’s Rights and Business (CRB), engaging with various sectors to improve child rights realization and the achievement of the SDGs.

Denise Westerhout currently leads the Sustainable Markets Programme (SMP) in WWF-Malaysia which addresses the adoption of sustainable commitments by corporations. She spearheads the delivery of the programme and the strategies that drive sustainable consumption among commodity growers, producers, manufacturers and consumers. This programme includes stakeholder engagement within the palm oil, timber, paper, pulp, and rubber industries and focuses on, but is not limited to, the delivery of SDG 12 in Malaysia. Prior to her engagement with WWF- Malaysia, she was attached with the Australian Trade Commission and the Government of Canada. In both roles, she led the development and market studies of bilateral trade with Malaysia across various sectors such as defence, aerospace, marine, machinery, banking and finance and consumer products.

Denise holds an Electrical Engineering Degree, majoring in Power Generation, from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s degree in International Business from Monash University.

Danny Chua is the Sustainability Team Lead for Mewah Group. He is responsible for developing and executing strategies to drive the Mewah Group’s Sustainability agenda, building a fully traceable and sustainable palm oil supply chain and implementing Mewah’s supplier engagement programmes. Mewah Group is an integrated agri-business focused on edible oils and fats. It is one of the largest palm oil processors in the world by capacity.

Danny Chua first joined Mewah Group in year 2012 as Group Operations Controller before being promoted to lead the Group Sustainability Department. The role requires Danny to initiate and drive various sustainability projects; primarily to actively engage with multi- stakeholders in its supply chain especially the Suppliers and Buyers to educate them on best practices and to create awareness on the latest sustainability trends & requirements.

Danny Chua holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from University Technology Malaysia.

Since September 2007, Mr. Dias is the Social and Environmental Responsibility Manager of Agropalma Group in Brazil. He is an Agronomic Engineer by University of São Paulo and has a master science degree in Agribusiness by University of Brasilia, both Brazilian institutions.

For ten years, Mr. Dias has dedicated his professional life to environmental management and social responsibility of companies in sectors of agribusiness, rail roads and mining. Since 2008, also represents Agropalma Group in the chair of Fórum Amazônia Sustentável Executive Board, a Brazilian private multi-stakeholder initiative that promotes the dialog among different stakeholders and guide business activities in Brazilian Amazonia.

Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Kai is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented sustainability scientist, trained in ecology, policy, and ethics from Princeton and Stanford Universities. He strives to understand how social-ecological systems can be transformed to be both better and wilder. Kai leads CHANS lab (Connecting Human and Natural Systems), and is co-founder of CoSphere (a Community of Small-Planet Heroes). He is a UBC Killam Research Fellow; a Leopold Leadership Program fellow; a director on the board of the North American section of the Society for Conservation Biology; senior fellow of the Global Young Academy and of the Environmental Leadership Program; a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; Lead Editor of the new British Ecological Society journal People and Nature; a coordinating lead author for the IPBES Global Assessment; and (in 2012) the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Keith is a Sustainable Finance Engagement Manager at WWF, where he engages with finance sector stakeholders and conducts research and capacity building on responsible lending and investment. Most recently, he co-authored Keep Palm, a primer for investors on sustainability in the palm oil sector, released in July 2018. He is also a contributing author to WWF’s Sustainable Banking in ASEAN, released in September 2018.

His background combines sustainability expertise and finance sector experience. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals on sustainability-related topics such as food waste and livestock production’s climate change impacts. Keith also worked as an analyst in investment banking with UBS in Chicago, where he covered debt, equity and mergers and acquisitions in the diversified industrials sector.

Prior to joining WWF, he completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where he specialised in sustainability theory and practice. Keith also holds a master’s degree in environmental management from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago.

Petra Meekers has a background in Biochemistry, with international experience in quality management consultancy including environmental and social impact assessments. Based in Asia since 1998, she has been involved in implementation of environmental systems and social frameworks for different sectors including food, energy and agriculture.

Petra is the Global Head of Sustainable Sourcing for Unilever involved in the development, review and implementation of the Sustainable Sourcing policies of Unilever, a global Consumer Goods Company with a range of more than 400 brands.

Prior to joining Unilever Petra worked for Musim Mas- a global palm oil corporation with operations spanning the entire palm oil supply chain- as the Director of CSR and Sustainable Development. And before she worked as the Group Sustainability Manager of New Britain Plantation Services in Singapore and Papua New Guinea- a large scale integrated, industrial producer of sustainable palm oil in Australasia including domestic sugar and beef production. NBPOL is a subsidiary of Sime Darby Plantations since 2015.

Peter is a Senior Engagement Specialist for Robeco's Active Ownership department and covers the consumer staples, healthcare and chemicals sector. Specific areas of expertise are agribusiness, access to medicine, nutrition, supply chain management and Sustainable Development Goals. He is member of the Advisory Committee of the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI) working groups on Labour Standards in the Agricultural Supply, Sustainable Palm Oil and Deforestation. Building on his previous experience in the Food & Agri sector he is involved in impact investing research efforts within the Robeco group. Peter gained over four years of professional experience in business development in frontier markets before joining Robeco in 2011. Peter holds a master's degree in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University with a minor in Entrepreneurship.

Prior to RSPO, he was the Regional Director at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) based in Kuala Lumpur. He has also worked with various international advisory firms such as PFC Energy and Nexant specialising in downstream oil, after having started his career in Petronas. 

Bakhtiar actively works on public health issues in Malaysia, and currently serves in the Malaysian AIDS Council and several grassroots NGOs.  

Professor Meijaard has worked as a conservation scientist and practitioner in Indonesia for 25 years. He focuses his work very much on the island of Borneo, where he has been working on quantification of the environmental and social costs and social and economic benefits of deforestation. Prof Meijaard Chairs the IUCN Oil Palm Task Force and is Director of Brunei-based Borneo Futures. He is a frequent writers of books, scientific publications and newspaper articles and a well-known critical voice about all matters of wildlife conservation and forest management.

Ms. Lim Sian Choo joined Bumitama in 2011 as Group Head of Corporate Secretarial Services and Corporate Social Responsibility. She oversees Bumitama corporate secretarial and corporate social responsibility and sustainability departments.  Most of her past experiences are in area of accounts and finance and operations, holding positions from Operations Manager to Group Financial Controller in the Hong Leong Group and other organization.  Sian Choo obtained her Bachelor of Commerce and Administration degree in 1981 from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. She is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Fenneke works at Aidenvironment Asia as Program Manager Sustainable Landscapes. She is involved in various landscape projects, with special focus on West Kalimantan to support social forestry and business model development for communities. This work is done in close cooperation with palm oil companies and the local government. Besides landscape projects, Fenneke supports Aidenvironment Asia’s team in implementing oil palm companies’ sustainability commitments such as sustainable procurement, engagement with different industry stakeholders, monitoring of deforestation/peat land development and smallholders support program development.

Fenneke has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University the Netherlands. She has always had special interest in involvement of private sector in landscape development. Before joining Aidenvironment Asia, she worked for Aidenvironment in the Netherlands.

Anne Rosenbarger is the Southeast Asia Commodities Manager in the Food, Forests and Water Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI).  Anne has been based with WRI in Indonesia since 2010, concentrating primarily on the links between sustainable oil palm development and forest conservation. 

Her most recent focus is on increasing corporate sustainability in the palm oil sector via Global Forest Watch, a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that unites satellite technology and open data to provide business-relevant analyses for better supply chain management. In this position, Anne works closely with companies from different regions across the palm oil supply chain, with government decision makers in SE Asia, with other civil society organizations, and with local community stakeholders. 

Anne is a representative for Environmental NGOs on the RSPO Board of Governors as well as various other RSPO groups such as the BHCV WG, P&C Review TF, and Assurance Taskforce.

Prior to joining WRI, Anne conducted research on a range of topics related to tropical ecology and community based forestry management. She received her Master's degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
 

John (or Junaidi) Payne is a permanent resident of Sabah, Malaysia. He has worked as a biologist in Malaysia since the 1970s, and in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1999-2002. He is Executive Director of PONGO Alliance (Palm Oil NGO), an alliance of partners from oil palm growers and civil society, which advocates for and supports the conservation of orangutans and other wildlife within oil palm landscapes through engaging oil palm growers, businesses, independent experts and NGOs. The protected areas established by governments are essential for wildlife conservation, but too small, scattered and marginal to be able to save all wild species in the long term. PONGO Alliance works to seek ways to allow lands outside protected areas to contribute to conservation of wild species. Private land owners and businesses are encouraged to play a role in preventing the extinction of rare wildlife species, not by giving money to "rescue" programmes but instead by allowing their lands to contribute space, habitat and foods for those rare species. The PONGO Alliance vision is: Making resilient landscapes for wildlife and people a reality.

Ashwin Selvaraj joined the RSPO Secretariat in Europe in March 2016. In his current role, Ashwin assists companies that would like to switch to sourcing sustainable palm and palm kernel oil. In addition, Ashwin supports the certification bodies accredited for supply chain certification and also supports the Standing Committee on Trade & Traceability.

Ashwin is an engineer and holds an MBA in General Management from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining RSPO, Ashwin has worked as a Business Analyst for an Investment Bank in India and the US for 5 years, followed by 4 years in the Traceability team at UTZ Certified. Ashwin also has experience with inclusive business, participatory and sustainable development.

Robert Nicholls (Rob) is the General Manager of Programmes and Projects with the Musim Mas Group – a global palm oil corporation with operations spanning the entire palm oil value chain.

Rob oversees the implementation and scaling-up of smallholder projects that link to the supply chain of the group operations, as well as that of third-party suppliers.

His portfolio includes the Indonesia Palm Oil Development for Smallholders programme (IPODS), aimed at enhancing independent smallholder access to global markets through addressing key challenges. IPODS is implemented in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, and is currently the largest smallholder project being run in Indonesia.

Rob is also spearheading the development and ground implementation of the Extension Services Programme (ESP) that links to third-party supply chains across identified priority provinces in Indonesia. Together, these parallel smallholder projects form a critical component of the Group’s wider strategy on supply chain engagement.

Prior to joining Musim Mas, Rob has been working in the palm oil industry for 18 years and is well versed with the plantations business in Indonesia. He has worked in several different locations in Kalimantan and Papua in estate operations and new development, and his last posting was to Papua New Guinea as Regional General Manager.

Rob also has a background in agricultural trainings and has been involved in setting up training programmes for different companies in the industry.

Sheila Senathirajah is the Program Director for the Palm Oil Initiative program under Wild Asia. Over the last 8 years, she has been dedicated to promoting sustainable practices and pushing for traceability and transparency within the palm oil industry. In her current capacity she is responsible for managing the various program initiatives aimed at initiating sustainable practices. These include technical assessments, farmer support program, sustainability training, establishing market connectivity as well as ensuring compliance to key sustainability standards. She works directly with both small to large growers of palm, mills, refineries as well as downstream supply chain actors to truly understand the depth of issues, address the complexities and overcome the challenges in applying and adopting a sustainable production model.

She has a science background, having graduated with a degree in Chemistry and having worked as a chemist for a considerable part of her 20 year career. Prior to joining Wild Asia, she worked as a Program Manager for the Chemicals, Materials & Food division at Frost & Sullivan Consultancy.

Proactive and qualified professional with 10+ years verified results as a Project Manager, with strong cross-sectoral experience in the field of agriculture, focused in Organic Certified Oil Palm Plantations and mill site, Commercial Pineapples, Rice growing technologies, rural development, general management, and application of rights-based conflict resolution approaches. RSPO member and working towards achieving RSPO certification

Mark is the Head of Downstream Sustainability for Sime Darby Plantation Berhad and manages the company’s responsible sourcing programme. Sime Darby Plantation is a globally integrated plantation company and a leading producer of certified sustainable palm oil products.

In previous roles, Mark led the development of the Sime Darby Group’s annual sustainability reports, established targeted stakeholder engagement programmes on sustainability issues and managed the Group’s climate change agenda. He also participated on various multi-stakeholder platforms, including the High Carbon Stock Convergence Process, which defined a unified approach to implementing no-deforestation commitments.

An Environmental Engineer by profession, Mark was previously an Associate Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Sustainability and Climate Change practice. He has also worked in the mining, forestry and property industries.

Inke is the Head of European Operations of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). In her role, she advises companies on RSPO membership, certification, sustainable sourcing, and RSPO claims. Further, she supports the RSPO Standing Committee Trade & Traceability, works with the supply chain accredited certification bodies, and the National Initiatives on sustainable palm oil in Europe. She enjoys the collaboration with all players that stimulate market transformation. Her previous position was at the Dutch Product Board for Margarine, Fats and Oils (MVO), where she worked as a policy advisor on sustainable development. Inke received her PhD in biology and worked in ecology, conservation, and sustainability projects.

Jalal Sayuti, 50 years old farmers from Jambi, Indonesia is the Group Manager of Gapoktan Tanjung Sehati. 

Gapoktan Tanjung Sehati started the journey towards RSPO certification since February 2009, a variety of activities has been done in order to meet RSPO Principle & Criteria and the Group Certification Standard. The Main Audit process was carried out in November 2013 by TUV Rheinland as the designated certification body.

Gapoktan Tanjung Sehati received their RSPO Certificate on June 16th , 2014.

Dave McLaughlin is Sr. Advisor: Strategy at Conservation International’s Center for Environmental Leadership in Business. Mr. McLaughlin joined Conservation International in January, 2018.  Prior to joining Conservation International, he led WWF-US’s agricultural team, focusing on international commodity supply chains.  The son of a geologist, Mr. McLaughlin was born and raised in Latin America. After obtaining a master’s degree in finance from Babson College, he moved to Costa Rica to work for Chiquita Brands International, where he worked for almost 30 years in a number of different roles.  Over the course of his career, Mr. McLaughlin made meaningful improvements to the agriculture industry in Latin America.  In the 1980s, as a palm oil plantation manager, he led efforts to implement cover crops, address effluent issues, and worker health and safety practices long before they became industry standards, as well as incorporating smallholder production as an integral part of Chiquita’s business plan.  In the 1990s, as the General Manager of Chiquita’s banana operations in Costa Rica, Mr. McLaughlin worked with the environmental community, including Conservation International, to implement a host of measures to improve the sustainability of banana production. He started with two farms in Costa Rica and ultimately executed a $25 million effort to implement the standards across Chiquita’s global operations in Latin America, Asia and Africa. This effort formed the centerpiece of “Smart Alliance,” a book that is now used in business schools as a case study for corporate responsibility and NGO engagement. Under Mr. McLaughlin’s leadership, Chiquita became the first multinational banana producer to be certified by the Rainforest Alliance in sustainable cultivation in all of its operations, including third party suppliers.  He also led the effort to certify all of Chiquita’s Latin American banana operations to the human and labor rights standard, SA8000.  In addition, while at Chiquita, Mr. McLaughlin led Chiquita’s agricultural research team as well as managed Chiquita’s banana operations in Panama.  At Conservation International, Mr. McLaughlin applies these lessons to a host of agricultural industries and works closely with global Brands to improve their supply chain sustainability. 

Andreas Knoell has a professional career spanning more than 15 years of work in responsible sourcing, certification and sustainability in natural resource management, mostly related to forest products and agricultural commodities. His extensive experience includes providing technical and strategic support to companies to meet the requirements of a range of sustainability standards including RSPO. Previously working for University of Hamburg, Proforest and as freelance consultant - he is currently the Secretary General of FONAP, based at GIZ in Bonn, Germany.

As secretary general he is leading the development of FONAP including managing day-to-day operations of the secretariat to support association members in meeting FONAP's objective of 100% certified sustainable palm oil. His facilitates technical input for improvements of certification schemes as well as for knowledge management within GIZ. He is also involved in wider engagement with stakeholders and represents the association on national and international level. He was an active task force member in the recent RSPO P&C review process and member of the sub-working group NoDIG.

Andreas holds a MSc in wood sciences and technology, a BSC in cultural anthropology and a MBA in sustainability management.  He is engaged in a teaching appointment regarding sustainability initiatives in natural resource management at the BTU in Cottbus. His research expertise includes an analysis of zero deforestation pledges of consumer goods manufacturers and retailers focusing on supply chains of palm oil from Indonesia to Europe. 

Dr. Gary Theseira has a professional career spanning more than a decade in climate change and sustainable policy development, forestry and research. He is a skilled communicator in climate science, policy positions and measures, as well as the effects and outcomes of implementation of measures. Previously serving as the Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, he is currently the Special Functions Officer to the Minister at the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC) in Malaysia. Dr. Gary holds a PhD in agronomy and crop science from Mississippi State University.

Mr. Yulhaidir is the head of Seruyan District in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Seruyan District, a major palm oil producing district in Central Kalimantan, declared its commitment to becoming a pilot for jurisdictional certification in 2015. Since then, the district government, with the support of civil society organizations and the private sector, has launched a comprehensive effort for ensuring that palm oil is produced sustainably and inclusively in the district. These efforts have included mapping all independent oil palm smallholders in the district and establishing a facility for systematically providing inputs and training to smallholders. Moving forwards, the district will focus on protecting and restoring forest ecosystems as part of its revised spatial plan

Mr Frederick Kugan is a forester by profession having graduated from Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM) (1987) and from New Brunswick University, Canada (1991). He has been with the Sabah Forestry Department since 1987 and had served in various positions over the years. He was appointed as the Deputy Conservator of Forests (Forest Sector Planning) since 2008. His current portfolio, amongst others, involves: Policy and Legislation, Forest Sectoral Planning, International and Corporate Affairs and Project Collaboration and Cooperation.

Mrs. Patricia Serrano is a lawyer specialized in Sustainability and Environmental Management. She has more than 8 years of experience in advising and applying environmental legislation and public environmental policies in Ecuador.
 
She has worked on REDD+ since 2012 leading at technical and strategic level the implementation of Ecuador’s REDD + Action Plan (REDD+ AP), under the guidance of the Ministry of the Environment.

Supported in the processes of institutional articulation and coordination, as well as in the establishment and strengthening of the political, legal and operational framework necessary for the effective implementation of the REDD+ AP, providing advice to the Undersecretary of Climate Change of the Ministry of the Environment in legal and technical aspects related to the implementation of REDD+ and within the framework of the results based payments, under the UNFCCC.
 
She has also participated as a guest and speaker in different national and international spaces, to present the achievements and advances of the country in REDD+.

Dr. Gary Theseira has a professional career spanning more than a decade in climate change and sustainable policy development, forestry and research. He is a skilled communicator in climate science, policy positions and measures, as well as the effects and outcomes of implementation of measures. Previously serving as the Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, he is currently the Special Functions Officer to the Minister at the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC) in Malaysia. Dr. Gary holds a PhD in agronomy and crop science from Mississippi State University.

Kristin leads ISEAL’s work on the impacts of sustainability standards. This includes supporting organisations in the development of their monitoring and evaluation systems and facilitating cross-organisation collaboration on the development of indicators, methodologies, and research studies.  ISEAL’s impacts programme also works to identify, synthesize and communicate relevant research about sustainability standards.

Before joining ISEAL, Kristin worked as a Senior Lecturer in environment and sustainable development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam. At ISS, she taught Masters and PhD courses on research methodology, sustainable development and environmental policy.

Professor Meijaard has worked as a conservation scientist and practitioner in Indonesia for 25 years. He focuses his work very much on the island of Borneo, where he has been working on quantification of the environmental and social costs and social and economic benefits of deforestation. Prof Meijaard Chairs the IUCN Oil Palm Task Force and is Director of Brunei-based Borneo Futures. He is a frequent writers of books, scientific publications and newspaper articles and a well-known critical voice about all matters of wildlife conservation and forest management.

Dr Lucey is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK and Programme Manager for the Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Oil palm Research (SEnSOR) programme: A multi-disciplinary research programme co-funded by the RSPO, to test the impact of palm oil certification. Jennifer completed her PhD at the University of York, UK, and has a scientific background in tropical biodiversity. Her current work focuses on translating science into policy and practice for improved sustainability in the oil palm industry. 

Soo Chin first joined RSPO in 2013 as the Biodiversity and Conservation Manager under the Technical Division and moved to ​​the Impacts and Evaluation Division in 2016.

In this capacity, she will be leading the team to understand the impacts of RSPO certification, communicate these impacts to stakeholders and incorporate lessons learned to continuously improve the standard.

​​​T​he Impacts and Evaluation Division​ ​​is responsible for the ​Theory of Change, Monitoring and Evaluation System, Complaints and Appeal Procedures, RSPO key research priorities, SENSOR, ISEAL compliance and GeoRSPO.​

Soo Chin was trained in Forestry and prior to joining RSPO, she was a Project Coordinator for the Malaysian Environmental Consultants (MEC), where she was attached to for 10 years working on numerous projects and possesses vast experience in HCV assessment, sustainable palm oil auditing, due diligence, natural resource conservation and management in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Paul Wolvekamp (1961) obtained his bachelor's degree in law from Leiden University, graduated in political sciences and obtained his diploma in environmental sciences. He joined Both ENDS in 1989 and served for 15 years as its Deputy Director.

He worked on various assignments for the Dutch government, the European Commission and other agencies, in a wide range of areas, such as the development of an Indo-Dutch Environmental NGO Fund, evaluating the European Commission's contribution to dry land management, the 'Africa Regreening Initiative' and partnerships with companies in organic tea, timber, spices and palm oil.

Paul is member of the Board of Governors of the RSPO, vice-chairman of the Asia based NTFP Exchange Programme, co-chair of the RSPO Dispute Settlement Facility Advisory Board and facilitates the Steering Group of the Assurance Task Force. He served on the Supervisory Council of the Netherlands Committee for IUCN, the national Advisory Commission on Sustainable Biomass, the University of Wageningen Forestry course and the advisory panel of CIFOR’s forest certification programme.

He is editor and co-author of numerous publications, amongst which ‘Governance, agricultural development, nature conservation and land and water distribution in Africa’ (2015), ‘Forests for the Future (1999), 'Purposes and uses of a commonly structured Dispute Settlement Facility' (2010), Hybrid governance in agricultural commodity chains: Insights from implementation of ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ (NDPE) policies in the oil palm industry (2018) and
Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains (2018).

Aminah Ang is the Head of Assurance in RSPO. Her current roles in RSPO includes managing the certification related activities for both the P&C and Supply Chain, approval of license in palmtrace, providing training to the Certification Body’s auditors, etc.

Aminah has about 22 years of working experience in a Certification Body based in Malaysia. She was a lead auditor for schemes such as the ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System), ISO 50001(Energy Management System), Clean Development Mechanism and third party verifier of the Sustainability Report. She also had about 2 years of working experience in managing the RSPO certification scheme. In year 2017/2018 (June), she was the Vice Chair of the ISO/TC 207/SC 1 - Environmental management systems.

Based in Rotterdam, Daphne Hameeteman is the Sustainability Manager for Wilmar Europe, a subsidiary of Wilmar International Limited. She leads the sustainability conversation on tropical oils for all of Wilmar’s operations in Europe, connecting the requirements of customers in food, oleochemicals, and biofuels with the supplies from Asia as well as Latin America. She is also actively involved in various multi-stakeholder discussions with civil societies and industry peers on transformation programmes to build a more sustainable palm oil industry.

In Latin America, she leads the WISSH Programme (Wilmar Smallholders Support in Honduras) to build capacity and enhance smallholders’ knowledge of best agricultural management practices that incorporate principles of environmental stewardship, leading to improved crop yields and income. She is developing a similar programme in Colombia.

Daphne is well-versed in the advocacy of sustainable palm oil. Prior to joining Wilmar in 2014, she managed the implementation of the RSPO palm oil traceability system for UTZ. She continues an active participation in RSPO conversations and is a member of the Trade & Traceability Standing Committee, contributing to its working groups to promote the uptake of CSPO.

Majoring in International Financial Economics, she joined Citibank in Amsterdam after graduation. Her other job experiences also include Microsoft as a business planning manager in the Netherlands, Spain and Norway.

He holds a degree in Agricultural Science majoring in Agronomy – specialist in oil palm plantation management; from Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia. He has more than 13 years working experience in oil palm-related sectors. Started as a Plant -Breeder/Agronomist with one of the Malaysian oil palm seed producers located in Johor (Sasaran Ehsan Utama Sdn Bhd); and as a Field Assistant for PT PP London Sumatera Indonesia Tbk – an oil palm plantation company in Indonesia. Ended his career journey in the plantation, he moved to be involved in RSPO audits since 2009 as an Auditor and subsequently as a Lead Auditor for several RSPO accredited certification bodies (i.e. PT Mutuagung Lestari & PT BSI Group Indonesia, and presently is PT SGS Indonesia) covering various audits and geographical locations of RSPO P&C, RSPO New Planting Procedures, RSPO Supply Chain, and RSPO Book & Claim Audits. In addition, he also been involved in other similar audits such as ISPO certification, Sustainability Report Assurance (SRA) and some second party audits. To support his competencies, he had successfully passed several training course of RSPO P&C and Supply Chain Lead Auditor endorsed courses, ISO 9001 & 14001 lead auditor, ISPO Auditor, Sustainability Report Assurance (SRA) assuror, training on HCV Identification and Management, and other related subjects. Currently, he works for PT SGS Indonesia as a RSPO Accreditation / Programme Manager in addition to RSPO Lead auditor for P&C and Supply Chain certification, Technical Reviewer, and Internal Auditor; with technical geographical expertise covering ASEAN countries, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, USA, and West Africa. He is fluent to speak and written in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Sanjiv Singh is the Social Competence Manager at ASI’s Social Competence Center. The Social Competence Center (SCC) is a function that oversees social requirements for several Standards that ASI accredits for. The SCC reviews the ability to audit specific social benchmarks across Standards and builds internal capacity amongst ASI Assessors to identify social risks when performing accreditation assessments.

Mr. Singh is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and comes from a background in Tea Plantation Management and Manufacturing Operations. He has been involved in CSR and Human Rights since 1997 and is a Lead Trainer at Social Accountability International and has conducted SA8000 courses in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Cambodia, Vietnam and the USA. Mr. Singh has helped shape public policy for the Government of United Arab Emirates and consults and trains the Ministry of Labour that include capacity building programs related to migrant workers rights based on ILO benchmarks.

Sanjiv has a Masters in Economics from India and has presented several papers on social auditing in the Middle East, Asia and the USA.  He has also spoken at the Harvard Business Review, Poland conference on social accountability.

Kamal’s vision is to be a catalyst for individuals and organizations to realize their true potential by sustainable actions, self-actualization and entrepreneurship. As the India Representative of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, he is working towards making sustainable palm oil the norm and contributing towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal No. 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production, amongst several others. Kamal has also been spreading the #DoWhatYouLove movement which is driven by his not-for-profit initiative 'Human Circle Foundation’.

Programs like 'Young India Challenge' are the drivers of the movement and the focus is to engage the millennials to connect their career with UN SDGs.

Girish joined P&G in April 1988, working across a number of product supply functions including Manufacturing, Supply Network Operations, Planning and Distribution. He’s worked in the UK, Switzerland and Singapore operations. Most recently he’s been involved with P&G Chemicals, the oleochemicals operation within P&G, since 2006 and has developed expertise across the industry particularly in the downstream operation and is now also focused on leading the upstream sustainability program on behalf of the company. Girish is a Chemical Engineering graduate from Loughborough University, UK.

Mark is responsible for leading and managing the company’s sustainable agriculture and zero-net deforestation programs. His work focuses on building strategies and driving sustainable sourcing programs for key commodities such as palm oil, soy, corn, wheat and coffee. These programs are focused on reducing environmental impacts and costs throughout the supply chain. Mark supports Walmart’s business in driving sustainability through value chain partnerships. He also manages efforts to form strategies for emerging environmental issues for the company and works to support companywide successes in monitoring sustainable sourcing and furthering sustainable product procurement for Walmart’s global supply chain. Mark is responsible for working across multiple business units at Walmart, and with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), companies, and industry organizations. His efforts are focused on developing sound strategies and goals that are good for business, the environment, and customers.

I’m a PhD candidate jointly supervised by King's College London and National University of Singapore. My PhD is on the development of climate finance in Asia but I've received research grant (Global Research Grant, Study Abroad Office) from King's College London to conduct research on media representation of the unsustainability of current palm oil agriculture practices in Malaysia and Indonesia. Prior to embarking on the PhD, I've conducted research on sustainability reporting regulations in Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchange. I hold a MA in Climate Change and a BA in International Politics, both from King's College London. 

Andrian is currently an undergraduate student from Indonesia Computer University in Bandung, Indonesia majoring International Relations from Faculty of Social and Political Science.

Together with Dwi Saputri and Nizar Nur Wicaksono from Gadjah Mada University, Andrian is one of the three winners of Youth Leaders in Sustainability competition organised by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in collaboration with WWF-Indonesia and supported by The Body Shop Indonesia and SINAR MEADOW.

At the Final of Youth Leader in Sustainability, he presented the campaign idea #GueSustainable (I am Sustainable) to inspire Indonesian millennials on environmentally friendly lifestyle through simple actions. Andrian has been involved in various environmental & social youth community activities, among others are Earth Hour, Koalisi Pemuda Hijau Indonesia, Bebas Sampah Indonesia, and BeliYangBaik.

Bhavna leads WWF-India’s corporate engagement on sustainability that delivers transformational partnerships, aimed at improving environmental and social outcomes. These partnerships help corporates to understand the impact of their operations and supply chains on critical natural habitats, such as deforestation, extractives and fossil fuel emissions. They also find solutions that mitigate environmental, social and business risks and enhance business opportunities that promote positive conservation outcomes, such as sustainable finance, water stewardship, climate innovation, renewable energy. 

She has over 16 years of diverse experience ranging from banking, environmental consulting to working with environmental NGOs and multilaterals.  Prior to WWF, Bhavna was a Vice President with JPMorgan Chase in New York where she covered a range of responsibilities, from conducting environmental risk assessments for financial transactions, developing the greenhouse gas reduction strategy, and helping set up the carbon trading desk at the bank. Bhavna holds a Master's in Public Administration in Environmental Policy from Columbia University.

Isaac coordinates the implementation of Wilmar’s sustainability commitments across its operations in Africa. In this capacity, Isaac is responsible for engaging with stakeholders on new developments, standard setting and partnerships for mainstreaming sustainable smallholder production into the company’s supply chains. He has a background in agricultural development with extensive experience in commodity certification, resource governance, smallholder development and conservation within production and protection landscapes. Prior to joining Wilmar, Isaac was a principal project manager at Proforest where he worked on diverse programmes to mobilise stakeholders to promote responsible commodity production in the Africa region and pioneered the development and implementation of the RSPO Africa Roadshow series.    

Ms. Ginny Ng is currently the Global Conservation Lead with Wilmar International. In her current position, she develops strategy and supports the implementation and management of High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) both internally and also with third- party suppliers. She also manages partnerships with NGOs and partners working in these areas. She is also currently the co-chair for RSPO’s Biodiversity and HCV Working Group (BHCVWG).

Prior to Wilmar, she had worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Malaysia (MNRE) on a project focusing on developing the national frameworks for the implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) programme in Malaysia. She has also worked with WWF on forestry issues in Malaysia and Indonesia.”

Dr Belinda Howell is an Executive and Non-Executive Director with extensive international experience in corporate sustainability strategy and supply chains.

Currently, she represents international retailers on the Boards of the Roundtables for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Responsible Soy (RTRS) promoting sustainable agriculture standards for food and feed supply chains. She is a Board member of the Marine Management Organisation and a Trustee of the National Biodiversity Network Trust in the UK.

Belinda started her career as a biochemist in scientific research and product development in fisheries and aquaculture for international development in Indonesia. Before developing sustainability strategy for product development and supply chain in Boots The Chemists; then leading Business in the Environment; an international consultancy; and CEO of a carbon management company. She established her own sustainability strategy consultancy, Decarbonize Limited, in 2008.

Grant is the Co-Chair of the multi-stakeholder High Carbon Stock Approach Steering Group and has been central to the development of the HCS Approach over the last 7 years – the methodology to put No Deforestation into practice. He is also a global forests solutions Senior Advisor for Greenpeace International with a focus on the showcasing and scaling-up of solutions to forest destruction and degradation globally.

A specialist in certification, in particular the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council), having been involved with FSC since its inception, on the FSC International board for 7 years (including chair), and the FSC Policy and Standards Committee for 6 years till 2016. He has worked for Greenpeace for over 20 years in a number of roles internationally as well as New Zealand, the Pacific, and Indonesia. He has a B. Agri. And M. Appl. Sci. (nature conservation).

Faizal Parish is the Director of the Global Environment Centre, a Malaysian non-profit organization working throughout East and Southeast Asia on forest and peatland management, biodiversity, water resources and climate change. He is a wetland ecologist by training and has more than 35 years’ experience in assessment and management of peat swamp forests, mangroves and river systems. He is a Malaysian Permanent Resident and has been living in Malaysia since 1983. He has been the Director of Global Environment Centre since 1998 and is a Senior Technical Advisor of the ASEAN Programme on Sustainable Management of Peatland Ecosystems 2014-2020 (APSMPE).  He was a Lead Author for Wetland Chapter of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and a contributing author to the 2013 IPCC Wetland Supplement.

He has been actively involved in the oil palm sector since 2004. He was the Co-chair of the RSPO Peatland Working Group (2009-2012) and RSPO Emission Reduction Working Group (2013-2017) and is currently the Co-chair of RSPO Peatland Working Group 2 (2017-2020). He coordinated the preparation of Guidelines for Minimising the impact of Oil Palm Plantations and Mills on River Water Quality in Sabah (2011) and  the RSPO Manual for BMPs for oil palm cultivated on peatlands. (2012) and was lead author of the RSPO Manual on BMPs for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of natural vegetation associated with for oil palm cultivation on peatlands (2012). He has advised a number of oil palm companies on peatland management and emission reduction.

Dato' Paduka Ir. (Dr.) Hj. Keizrul bin Abdullah has been involved in the field of water and environment for the past 4 decades. He started his career in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia where over an illustrious career, he rose to become the Director General in 1997 until his retirement from public service eleven years later. As Director General, he introduced a more environment-friendly approach to solving water and environment issues and advocated the need to manage water, drainage, river, flood and coastal problems in a holistic and integrated manner. He championed the mainstreaming of flood issues in Malaysia and managed the SMART Tunnel Project (a unique and innovative flood mitigation project utilising a tunnel for both flood and traffic use) from conception to commissioning. The SMART Tunnel Project is one of only two engineering projects in Malaysia to be showcased in both the National Geographic and the Discovery Channels, the other being the Petronas Twin Towers.

Keizrul is currently the Chairperson of Wetlands International Malaysia, a Senior Advisor of NARBO (Network of Asian River Basin Organisations); a member of the OECD Work Group on Water Governance Initiatives; a member of the ESCAP Expert Advisory Group on Water Security/Water and Sanitation Related SDGs; the Lead Advisor for the ROK-ASEAN Cooperation Project on Building Resilience for a Sustainable ASEAN (from Water-Related Disasters); and a member of HELP (High-level Experts and Leaders' Panel on Water and Disasters) which reports to the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water. He continues to accept invitations to share his knowledge and experience on water and environment issues at national, regional and international levels.

An independent mediator and dispute resolution process facilitator with a legal background. Brenda has extensive global experience in ADR, justice and mediation-related programme design, implementation and review. She has also designed and delivered training programmes in mediation awareness and skills to government, private sector and at community level, increasingly focussed on conflict and risk mitigation. Brenda is interested in and sensitive to cultural variations in application of international standards in dispute resolution and process design, training and practice and is a passionate believer in the value that mediation can bring to successful interventions in the informal justice sector. She has also managed large-scale dispute resolution processes between communities, government and international investors. She is committed to monitoring the implementation of agreements to ensure positive outcomes with long-term benefits to all stakeholders. Brenda is also experienced in workplace mediation being one of the World Bank’s community of 20+ Regional Mediators contracted by Mediation Services in Washington DC as well as the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the IFC.

Brenda is a citizen of both Kenya, where she lives, and the UK.