Mr. Koichi Yanagita
General Manager of Corporate Sustainability, Kao Corporation
1985 joined Kao Corporation
2000- Manager / Processing Development Research Laboratories
2002- Manager / Global R&D -Packaging Development
2008- General Manager / Environment & Safety
2016- General Manager / Corporate Sustainability

Prof. Yukari Takamura
Nagoya University
Ms. Yukari Takamura is a professor of International law in the graduate school of environmental
studies at the Nagoya University. Prior to 2011, She worked as Professor of Public Law at
Ryukoku University. Prof. Takamura’s areas of expertise include public international law andinternational environmental law. She has a keen interest in international climate law and policy
including the Kyoto Protocol and post-Kyoto issues. In addition, Prof. Takamura supports FFPRI’s
research for REDD+ and as an external committee member of the REDD Research andDevelopment Center, She provides legal counsel for them.

Dr. Heike Schroeder
Senior lecturer, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
Dr. Heike Schroeder is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in climate change and international
development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. Her work
focuses on the UNFCCC process, forest governance and REDD+ and urban climate governance.
She is also a coordinator of the governance theme in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the long-term international
research project on Earth System Governance under the auspices of the International HumanDimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).

Dr. Constance McDermott
Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Dr. Constance McDermott is a senior research fellow with over 25 years experience inmulti-level forest, climate and landscape governanceResearch and applied work spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa

Over 50 publications, including books, book chapters, peer reviewed journal publications andprofessional reports

Expertise covers the governance of forests and their intersection with climate, agriculture,mining and land use change. It includes both state and market-based governance, fromintergovernmental agreements to domestic policy, sustainable supply chains and certification,and community-based resource management

Dr. Robert Nasi
Deputy Director General. Research Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)PhD Biological Sciences (Tropical Ecology and Applied Botany), University Paris South –Orsay,
1994; Forest Engineer, National School of Forestry, France, 1982.
Since 1982 Dr. Robert Nasi has been living and travelling extensively in Africa, Asia and thePacific undertaking research activities in the fields of ecology and management of tropicalforests. His particular research interests are the sustainable use of forest products and themultiple-use management of tropical forests. His scientific work is aiming at integrating socialand biological sciences for better management of tropical forests, more sustainable livelihoods
and better designed forest policies. For the last decade Dr. Nasi focused quite a lot his scientificwork (beyond management duties) to the question of the sustainable management of wildlife andthe bushmeat crisis issue but he kept on working on more classical forestry issues around thequestion of tropical forest logging and management. He is developing a growing interest in thequestion of Novel Ecosystems in the context of the Anthropocene and look forward working on
this in the coming years. His main disciplines are ecology, botany, biometrics, tropical forest
management, and silviculture. He regularly supervise MSc and PhD students on the above topics
and have authored or co-authored more than 200 publications (http://tinyurl.com/nsyf54e).

Dr. Kimihiko Hyakumura
Associate Professor, Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University
1998-2011 Researcher, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
2011- Associate Professor, Kyushu University
1996-1998 Long Term JICA Expert, Department of Forestry, Laos
Educational Background2007: Ph.D. in Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, Japan

1993: MSc. in Bioresources, Mie University, Japan
1990: BA in Agriculture, Mie University, Japan
Research Area
Forest policy, Political Ecology, Southeast Asian Studies (Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar)Prof. Antonio G. M. La Viña
Professor, Ateneo de Manila University / Executive Director, Manila Observatory
In the field of climate change, Prof, Antonio G. M. La Viña is internationally recognized as aleading authority and practitioner. He was the chief negotiator of the Philippines and developing
countries in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations in 1996-97. From 2009, during the Copenhagenclimate talks, and up to the 2015 Paris climate change conference, Prof, La Viña was a seniorand lead negotiator for the Philippines and played leadership and facilitation roles in thenegotiations on forest issues and on integrating human rights and ecosystems integrity into theclimate legal regime. He was the facilitator of the REDD-plus negotiations in 2009 and 2011.
Prof, La Viña obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Law from Yale University and his first
degrees in philosophy and law from Ateneo de Manila University.

Mr. Shinkichi Mizutani
Executive director, More Trees (The general Incorporated Association)
Mr. Shinkichi Mizutani currently manages a Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) project in the Republicof the Philippines as well as Offset Credit (J-VER)/J-credit projects and forest carbon offset
matching programs that are run via a forest conservation group called “More Trees”. The group,
founded by renowned artist and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, stands to prevent the global
degradation of forests that play a vital role in sustaining life on earth. Mr. Mizutani graduatedfrom Keio University, Faculty of Economics and after leaving the Kubota Corporation in 2003 hehas been engaged in forest restoration and green-tourism activities in the Republic of Indonesia.