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Madhu Rao
Senior Advisor and Representative of WCS in Singapore
Madhu is a Senior Advisor and Representative of WCS in Singapore. She has provided technical, strategic and programme development support for WCS country programmes across Asia. She has broad experience with international protected area and wildlife policy and has engaged extensively with conservation planning and regional-scale conservation prioritization. She serves as Advisor to the secretariat of the Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP), an IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) initiative to catalyze conservation action for Critically Endangered species in the ASEAN region that is led by the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS). She has a Master’s and PhD degrees from Duke University and is currently an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has published scientific research on wildlife exploitation and trade, protected area effectiveness, human-wildlife conflict and community management of protected areas.
Yulia Sudjatmiko
Southeast Asian Archipelago (SEAA) Regional Business Manager
Yulia Sudjatmiko has more than 18 years’ extensive experience in various project development; project planning, budgeting and management, budget controlling, monitoring & evaluation; involved in capacity building projects and organizational development; over 10-years’ experience in security sector and police reform projects nationwide. Before joining WCS in early 2016, she has spent 10+ years in security sector programs nationwide, in Jakarta, Bali and Aceh. Now she directs WCS Indonesia Operations, overseeing Finance/Grant & Budget, HR, Administration/IT, government relation and safety and security. Since 2016, to manage its rapid growth, WCS Indonesia Program has established its Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) and standardizing its financial & budget management, procurement system & inventory management, HR Manuals and overall internal control/oversight system. Since 2020, WCS Indonesia Program also has setup its government relation team and developing its country program’s safety and security standard. Yulia holds a master-degree in financial management and has joined courses in DFID/USAID project/contract Management with InsideNGO in Washington D.C., October 2016 and with Humentum, Washington D.C., on March 2019.
Leonie Lawrence
Technical Advisor for the WCS’s Southeast Asian Archipelago Region
Leonie is a Technical Advisor for the WCS’s Southeast Asian Archipelago Region, working with country programs to develop strategies to address the drivers of deforestation in key landscapes. Leonie holds an MSc in Conservation Biology from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and over the past eight years has focused on the impacts of commodity production on tropical forests, as well as solutions including supply chain transparency and interventions, public-private partnerships, and financial sector engagement, previously managing the Zoological Society of London’s SPOTT initiative and serving on the Board of Governors of the RSPO. Most recently, Leonie has been working with the WCS Indonesia Program to develop BBS KEKAL, a landscape partnership between government, companies and communities, to reduce the risk of deforestation and support coffee farmers in the Bukit Barisan Selatan landscape in southern Sumatra, and translating lessons from this landscape approach for application by the private and public sector. Leonie also leads WCS’s engagement in Trillion Trees; a joint venture between BirdLife International, WCS and WWF founded on vision for a world where forests are expanding and not shrinking.

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