Indonesia

Nirmal Bhagabati
Senior Program Officer (Ecosystem Services), World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US) Conservation Science Program

Bhagabati leads WWF's efforts to apply InVEST in priority field sites. He developed an interest in conservation growing up in the biodiversity-rich region of northeast India near the Eastern Himalayas. After completing undergraduate work in India in biology and computer science, Bhagabati pursued doctoral research at the State University of New York, studying geographic variation in birds (Mexican Jays) in the southwestern US and northern Mexico. Subsequently, he studied the genetics of an avian hybrid zone at the Smithsonian Institution, and then worked as a bioinformatics analyst at The Institute for Genomic Research, where he developed software, analyzed data, and trained biologists in data analysis. Bhagabati also has a degree in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland. He has worked with several environmental organizations, including the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Conservation International, the National Wildlife Federation and World Wildlife Fund, on diverse projects including GIS-based analyses of human dimensions of conservation, biofuels, tropical deforestation and climate change policy, and landscape-level conservation planning.

Emily McKenzie
Lead - Policy and Finance

McKenzie is developing tools to enable ecosystem services information to be effectively incorporated into decisions, policies, and finance systems. She has used environmental economics to influence policy in the Pacific, Caribbean, and Europe, including black pearl farming in the Cook Islands, aggregates extraction in the Marshall Islands, and forest biodiversity in Montserrat. She has built environmental economics programs and projects - leading research, developing toolkits, training staff, and providing policy advice. She previously worked as environmental economics advisor to the UK government, based at the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. In 2003-2005, she was awarded an Overseas Development Institute Fellowship, based at the Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji. McKenzie received a Masters Degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Cambridge University.

Nasser Olwero
GIS Manager, World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US) Conservation Science Program

Olwero oversees WWF US Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program including managing the GIS lab and providing GIS and RS support to the Conservation Science Program. He graduated from Moi University in Kenya (undergraduate and postgraduate) with an M.Phil. degree in Environmental Science majoring in Environmental Information Systems.