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Global Forest Watch Staff
Craig Hanson, Director of the People and Ecosystems Program Lars Laestadius, Project Manager - Russia Pierre Méthot, Program Manager - Central Africa Susan Minnemeyer, GIS Associate & Lab Manager Ruth Nogueron, Program Coordinator – North and South Americas Lawrence Nsoyuni, Trainer, GIS/Remote Sensing -
Gideon Shu, Project Assistant - Central Africa
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Matt Steil, Associate - Central Africa
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Fred Stolle, Project Manager - Southeast Asia
 Craig Hanson
Director of the People and Ecosystems Program
Craig Hanson is Director of WRI’s People & Ecosystems Program, which seeks to reverse the rapid degradation of ecosystems
and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. He has helped launch a number of WRI projects including the Forest
Legality Alliance, Project POTICO, and Southern Forests for the Future. In addition, he developed and launched WRI’s Ecosystem Services Initiative.
He is the lead author of Southern Forests for the Future, the Corporate Ecosystem Service Review,
the Corporate Guide to Green Power Markets series, and the Tax Reform, Energy and the Environment series (with The Brookings Institution).
Prior to becoming Director, Craig managed the Green Power Market Development Group-US and launched the Green Power Market
Development Group-Europe. Prior to joining WRI, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company for five years in the United States and Europe.
Craig earned an MSc in Environmental Change & Management from Oxford University, with a concentration in conservation biology and forestry. While at
Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, he earned an MA in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics with an emphasis on environmental economics. He has a BA from Georgetown University.
E-mail: chanson@wri.org
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 Lars
Laestadius
Project Manager - Russia
Dr. Lars Laestadius is currently leading the forest-related work of
the World Resources Institute in Russia and Eastern Europe. This
includes designing and establishing a multi-stakeholder Timber
Compliance Assessment Partnership (TCAP) in Russia, mapping of high
conservation value forests in Russia, assessing the carbon budget and
climate mitigation potential of forestry and land use in Russia, and
mapping of long continuity forest landscapes in Romania. Most of this
work falls under WRI's Global Forest Watch initiative. Dr. Laestadius
has also led mapping and forest policy work in North America.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Laestadius served as scientific
secretary in the COST Secretariat of the European Commission (DG
Research), where he was responsible for coordinating nationally funded
European forestry and forest products research. He has previously held a
similar position in the Faculty of Forestry at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences and been a researcher at the Faculty of Forestry
and at the private Swedish Forest Research Institute SkogForsk (Skogsarbeten).
Dr. Laestadius holds a forest degree from the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences and a Ph.D. in Forestry from Virginia Tech.
In addition to Swedish, Dr. Laestadius is fluent in English and
conversant in Russian.
Expertise: Russian forest sector, Eastern Europe and North America,
monitoring with satellites in boreal areas, global sensitive areas
mapping, forest certification, industrial forestry, pulp and paper
processing industry, forests and carbon, Europe and Northern Asia Forest
Law Enforcement and Governance Process, World Bank Russia, European
Commission.
E-mail: larsl@wri.org
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 Pierre Méthot
Program Manager for Central Africa
Mr. Pierre Méthot is a Forest Engineer and a chartered administrator
with a Masters degree in Public Administration. He has more than 27
years of professional experience in forestry and natural resources
management, and in international development and management. His fields
of expertise include forest sector reviews, national forest development
plans and strategies, forest policy and legislation, forest revenue
systems, feasibility studies, forest programmes and project management
and, finally, in general management of private logging and wood
processing private companies.
Mr. Méthot is also quite familiar with reforestation, agro-forestry,
social forestry, agri-business and rural development as well as in
forest ecosystems management and conservation. Mr. Méthot has extensive
international experience having completed 36 projects in over 25
countries and having conducted many other business development missions
in other countries.
Expertise: African forest sector, tropical forestry, forest system
architecture, concession management, global tropical forest products
industry and trade, independent monitoring, forest law enforcement and
compliance, International Tropical Timber Organization, World Bank
Africa, forestry consulting firms
E-mail: pmethot@wri.org
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Susan Minnemeyer
GIS Associate & Lab Manager
Susan Minnemeyer joined the World Resources Institute in May 1999 and
is the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Lab Manager for Global
Forest Watch (GFW), an international initiative to provide data and
information on the world's remaining primary forests. Since joining GFW,
she has produced maps and databases for reports on forests in Cameroon,
Gabon, and Canada that describe the state of the forests and provide
information on logging and the companies operating in these forests.
Susan's work focuses primarily on the forests of Central Africa. She
is developing region-wide datasets on logging concessions, protected
areas, and roads for the region to determine the extent of forest
fragmentation and the degree to which low access forests are protected
or threatened. In Cameroon, GFW is working with local partners to create
the first national dataset on logging roads, digitized from current
satellite imagery. Susan has twice led GIS training sessions in
Yaoundé, Cameroon for Cameroon Environmental Watch, a local
non-governmental organization and partner of GFW.
In addition, Susan helps GFW partners to obtain satellite imagery and
donated software for GIS and remote sensing. She has also helped to make
GFW datasets and satellite imagery freely available on the internet to
other organizations.
Susan received a Master's degree in environmental management from
Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, where she majored
in conservation biology/landscape ecology and studied GIS applications
for conservation. She also has a B.S. in Biology from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Expertise: Geographic Information Systems technology and providers,
map design and production, remote sensing, monitoring logging roads with
satellite imagery, building local mapping capacity, Cameroon concession
system, interactive mapping technologies, independent monitoring, forest
change indicators
E-mail: susanm@wri.org
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 Ruth
Noguerón
Program Coordinator - North and South America
Ruth is the Global Forest Watch Program Coordinator for North and
South America.
Prior to her work with GFW, she was a part-time Program Assistant with
the Forest Frontiers Initiative at WRI.
As the North America Coordinator, Ruth provides general
administrative support to the North America team. In addition, she
provides support in minor research activities, and is the liaison
between the Global Forest Watch Canada and U.S. partners and WRI
colleagues.
Before coming to the World Resources Institute, she worked in México
City at the Tropical Action Forest Program (PROAFT).
Also in México, Ruth participated in a national effort, coordinated
by Drs. Arturo Gómez-Pompa and Rodolfo Dirzo, to evaluate the natural
protected areas of México, a project sponsored by the World Bank and the
Mexican government.
Ruth has a Bachelor’s degree in biology from the Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana in México City, and an Associate’s degree in applied
geography from Montgomery College, Maryland.
Expertise: South America forests and forests monitoring, NGO forest
monitoring networks, poverty, illegal logging, certification, ecosystem
goods and services, sensitive forest area mapping, protected areas,
social, indigenous, and community issues, map-based analyses of human
Pressure, transboundary conservation, North American forest issues.
E-mail: ruthn@wri.org
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Lawrence Nsoyuni
Trainer, GIS/Remote Sensing
Nsoyuni joined Global Forest Watch in March 2004 to develop forest data
and information databases, train GFW partners on using these databases
and GIS/Remote Sensing (RS) technologies for sustainable forest
management, monitoring and control.
Prior to joining GFW, he spent four years in Cameroon working as a GIS
officer for the Mount Cameroon project in the field of Biodiversity
Conservation and Management and for the Limbé Botanical and Zoological
Garden (LBZG) as GIS/RS Lab Manager. While at LBZG, he advised
management, wrote proposals, and developed contacts through which the
lab acquired both GIS/RS facilities and the services of GIS/RS
volunteers. The lab provided services (mapping, satellite image
processing and interpretation, GIS trainings) to government services,
biodiversity conservation projects, logging companies, local and
international NGOs.
Nsoyuni is National Coordinator for OSFAC in Cameroon and has
coordinated workshops for GIS/RS practitioners in Cameroon. He played an
instrumental role in the development of the Information System on the
Biodiversity of Cameroon (SIBC) funded by the World Bank.
Nsoyuni received a Master's degree in Environmental Systems Analysis and
Monitoring from the International Institute for Geo-information Science
- The Netherlands where he majored in the application of GIS/RS for
Natural Resources Management. He also has a Bachelor's degree in
Geography from the University of Yaoundé 1 Cameroon.
Expertise: Cameroon forest sector, technical capacity building for
forest monitoring management and control, geographic information
systems, monitoring logging roads with remote sensing, forest data and
information databases, biodiversity
E-mail: ayenikal@iucn.org
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Gideon Neba Shu
Program Assistant, GIS/Remote Sensing -- Central Africa
Gideon joined Global Forest Watch in December 2005 as
project assistant for GFW Cameroon-WRI Central Africa Program. He has
field experience in the tropical rain forests of Cameroon, Republic of
Congo and the Central African Republic and is conversant with the
Cameroonian forestry policy.
Before joining the GFW team, Neba Shu worked for Mount Cameroon Darwin
Initiative Project in Limbe-Cameron, the Tropenbos Cameroon Programme
collecting and analyzing baseline data for the development of
sustainable forest management strategies in Cameroon. He occupied the
position of GIS/RS officer for the Department of Forest Management,
Vicwood Thanry from 2003-2005 where he developed and managed a spatial
database for the company. He equally produced maps for various
forest management purposes and trained colleagues in the use of the GPS
and ArcView software.
Gideon holds an MSc. degree in Rural Land ecology from the
International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth
observation (ITC), The Netherlands; a BSc degree in Botany obtained from
the University of Buea in Cameroon.
Fields of expertise: applications of GIS/RS in the Management of Natural
Resources, tropical forest inventories, forest management and mapping.
E-mail:
gideon.nebashu@iucn.org
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Matt Steil
Associate - Central Africa
Expertise: Gabon, GIS,
Central Africa
E-mail: msteil@wri.org
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 Fred Stolle
Project Manager - Southeast Asia
Fred Stolle is an Associate II project manager for
Global Forest Watch for the Southeast Asia region. Fred comes to us with
extensive technical and regional expertise. He worked with spatial
information related to land use issues in developing countries for over
10 years. He started working at the International Institute for
Aerospace survey in the Netherlands after which he joined UNEP/GRID in
Nairobi. After a 2 years stay in UNEP he changed to UNESCO in Jakarta to
work on forestry issues in Indonesia. He stayed there 4 years working
subsequently for the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) as head of their
spatial analysis lab, and later as specialist on spatial information in
a combined project of ICRAF and the Center for International Forestry
Research (CIFOR). His expertise spans management of project on spatial
data as well spatial research and field investigations. He returned to
Europe to do do his PhD at the Université Catholique de Louvain in
Belgium and was awarded a PhD in Geography with great distinction
(thesis on underlying causes of fire a spatial study on causes and
impacts of fires in Indonesia) in 2003.
Expertise: Southeast Asia forest sector, palm oil
sector, monitoring with satellites in tropical areas, global forest
cover change mapping, World Bank Indonesia, UN Environment Program,
World Agroforestry Centre, Center for International Forestry Research
(CIFOR)
E-mail: fstolle@wri.org
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