ART - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Portfolio
As ART's Associate Director, Portfolio, Ms. Takimoto provides support to the ART Managing Director, and other ART staff on all aspects of implementation of this program. This will include technical support to jurisdictions and stakeholders, technical inputs and analyses, development of outreach materials, document review, and registry management. Ms. Takimoto is a forest resources management and REDD+ expert. She has consulted with public and private sectors, including government agencies, think tanks, NGOs, management consultants, and academia. She has worked extensively on REDD+ in Cambodia since 2016 in roles with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting advising the Cambodian government on national and sub-national REDD+ implementation and operation of the National Forest Monitoring System. Prior to that, Ms. Takimoto worked for the UN-REDD Programme providing technical assistance for the national REDD+ readiness process to UNDP country offices. She also conducted and authored a study on forest carbon pricing through results-based REDD+ on forest financing. Ms. Takimoto worked in forest resource management / conservation and development projects for many years and have lived in Indonesia, Nepal, Mali, Pakistan, and Cambodia. Furthermore, she worked in many other countries in Africa and Asia for short-term assignments. Ms. Takimoto holds a Masters of Forestry degree from Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Climate Change and Agroforestry from University of Florida. She is a SAF Certified Forester.
Carlos Nobre is an Earth System scientist from Brazil. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, in 1974 and obtained a PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in 1983. Presently, he is a Senior Researcher with University of São Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies, chair of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, and International Secretary of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is a former Science Director of the Research Project "National Institute of S&T for Climate Chante". He is the creator of Brazil's National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters and of INPE's Center for Earth System Science and was Director of INPE's Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC). Nobre's work mostly focused on the Amazon and its impacts on the Earth system. He chaired the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), an international experiment to create new knowledge on the natural functioning of Amazonia, the impact of land use and climate changes on these functions. He has been also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was National Secretary for R&D Policies at the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation of Brazil and President of Brazil's Agency for Post-Graduate Education (CAPES). He was a member of UN Secretary-General Scientific Advisory Board for Global Sustainability. He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and World Academy of Sciences.
Professor Voigt has published on REDD+ related topics, most prominently: Voigt, Christina (ed.) (2016) Research Handbook on REDD+ and International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing); Voigt, Christina and Ferreira, Felipe (2015) The Warsaw Framework for REDD+: Implications for national implementation and access to results-based payments, 2 Carbon and Climate Law Review, 113-129, and Niemitz, Voigt et al. (forthcoming in 2024) The Paris Agreement and the Future of REDD+.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Policy
As the Associate Director of Policy, Franklin Paniagua contributes to the strategic positioning of the ART program as well as serving as a liaison to external stakeholders. Franklin Paniagua was the former deputy minister of the environment for Costa Rica, from 2019 to 2022. Before that, he was the National Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution director at the Ministry of Justice. In this capacity, he led the implementation of the General Mechanism for Indigenous Consultation, which frames the application of the ILO-169 Convention. He has over 25 years of experience in environmental law, particularly in the facilitation and mediation of multi-stakeholder public interest conflicts. Franklin has a Law degree from the University of Costa Rica Law School and a master's from the University of Florida. He has published several handbooks regarding citizen engagement, social dialogue, negotiation and academic articles in the fields of environmental policy, public conflicts, and participation.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager, Technical Engagement
Lucia Ruiz, the former Minister of Environment and former Vice Minister of Strategic Management of Natural Resources, is a lawyer with completed studies of master's degree in business administration and completed studies of master's degree in sustainable development, as well as complementary studies in governance and political management, environmental and natural resources law, public management, among other. With more than 25 years of work experience, 20 of them dedicated to design and implement public policies related to protected natural areas and natural resource management, with an emphasis on forest and water resource management, as well as with social and environmental issues concerning IPLC rights and capacities to manage their lands and natural resources. In this regard she has vast practical field experience in helping strengthen the capacities of local populations to fully participate in the management of Natural Protected Areas in the Peruvian Amazon. She also has very relevant experience in working with multi-lateral agencies such as the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank., as well Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund. She currently is professor of Water Law and is also a renowned speaker at various national and international events, regarding natural resources and protected natural areas.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Policy
As Associate Director, Policy Lucía Madrid contributes to the strategic positioning of the ART program as well as serving as a liaison to external stakeholders. She is a specialist in integrated landscape management and community-led conservation. She holds a master's degree in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, and she has 16 years of professional experience working with local and indigenous communities, national and international NGO's, government agencies and research institutions. She has extensive experience in community forestry, including leading projects to assist rural and indigenous communities in the development of enterprises to produce FSC certified timber, charcoal, and industrialized wood products, as well as developing local projects to sell forest carbon credits. She has also worked with women groups in Mexico's forest regions to strengthen their participation in natural resources management initiatives and supported communities' strategies to improve their governance structures.
Prior to joining the ART Secretariat, Ms. Madrid worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the United States Forest Service, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America, civil society organizations and subnational jurisdictions, contributing to sustainable landscape management initiatives. She also worked as a public official for Mexico's Environmental Ministry serving as Director General of Forestry and Land Use Management where she led multi-stakeholder negotiations to improve the forest legislation in Mexico and she coordinated the implementation of improvements to Mexico's national forest management system. Previously, Ms. Madrid worked for ten years with a Mexican non-governmental organization (the Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture) leading a project to support indigenous communities in the development of natural resources management initiatives, sustainable production systems and common-pool resources governance strategies. As part of this work, she led the design and implementation of a local mechanism of payments for environmental services with and integrated landscape management approach. This project was awarded the "Land for Life" award of the UNFCC.
As ART Executive Director, Mary is responsible for overall operational management of the ART Secretariat, overseeing Board relations, implementation of TREES, operation of the ART registry, and verification and issuance of TREES Credits. She leads strategies to ensure recognition of ART as setting the bar for REDD+ quality through engagement with tropical forest countries, REDD+ donor countries, Civil Society Organizations and corporate credit buyers. Ms. Grady has been active in environmental markets for 30 years including 14 years at Winrock's American Carbon Registry (ACR), overseeing the issuance of over 200 million ton of verified emissions reductions including 124 million tons of forestry credits. In her current role as Executive Director, she oversees ACR's respected team of technical and policy experts in the California and ICAO regulated carbon market and the global voluntary carbon market. Upon joining ACR in 2008, Mary developed and implemented a strategy that rebranded ACR and built its reputation as the premium U.S. GHG crediting program. She has contributed to the development and ongoing updates to the ACR Standard, the development of three generations of ACR's registry platform and led ACR's strategy for approval as California Offset Project Registry in 2012. She is accredited by the California Air Resources board in Offset Project Registry Operations and Verification. Mary also led the application process and secured approval of both ART and ACR to supply credits to the International Civil Aviation Organization's Carbon Offsetting Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). She actively represents Winrock as the head of delegation as an Observer to the UNFCCC and serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Prior to working in carbon markets, Mary worked for 16 years in the renewable energy industry including as the Operations Leader of Clipper Windpower and in Brazil as the Director of Kyocera Solar's pioneering rural electrification program. She holds a Masters in International Business and speaks Portuguese and Spanish. She lives with her family in California.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research & Development
Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Executive Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples' Research & Development (CIPRED) has been working with Indigenous Peoples, Women and Local Communities for the recognition of the indigenous peoples' knowledge, cultural values and customary institutions that contributed for sustainable management of forest, ecosystem, biodiversity and climate resilience for more than a decade. Ms. Sherpa has obtained her PhD at Kathmandu University in 2018 on Climate Change Education and its Interfaces with Indigenous Knowledge. She has already served as Co-Chair of International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC), Co-Chair of Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples' Platform (LCIP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ), to the board of UN-REDD, Participant Committee of FCPF, World Bank. Presently, she is the member of FWG, LCIP of UNFCCC and Chair of Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples' Customary and Environmental Laws and Human Rights (SPICEH) within CEESP-IUCN, Technical expert member of the National Coordination Committee of REDD Implementation Center of MoFE, visiting faculty at Kathmandu University as well as representing in the different forums, networks and institutions both at national and international levels.
Roselyn Fosuah Adjei is the Director, Climate Change at Ghana's Forestry Commission and also the National REDD+ Focal Point for Ghana. Roselyn has experience in the development, implementation and management of integrated jurisdictional landscape programs on REDD+. She has successfully led the development of two such jurisdictional programs within the Cocoa-Forest and Shea-Savannah Forest Landscapes to attract international Climate Finance from the Carbon Fund (Ghana is the 3 rd Country to have accessed the Carbon Fund) and the Green Climate Fund respectively, to reduce commodity driven deforestation, build ecosystem resilience, enhance local livelihood options, support industry growth and sustainability and consistently but gradually restore lost Forest cover.
For 15 years she has been working on Sustainable Forest management approaches, with a strong focus on building and designing inclusive and transformative Governance, Social and Environmental structures that foster cross sectoral partnerships with local communities and Private sector to contribute pragmatic solutions to halting and reversing deforestation. Within the REDD+ space, Roselyn has both national, regional and global experience having participated in numerous strategic programs with Multi-lateral Organizations, Governments, Civil Society, Local Communities and the Private Sector. She is a member of the UN-REDD Executive Board beginning as an alternate member in 2019.
She has been recognized as a significant contributor to the UK Government led Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue Roadmap launched at COP26 in Glasgow as a Co-Facilitator of the Transparency and Traceability Working Group. She believes that inclusive governance structures backed by Sustainable Finance are key to innovative landscape level approaches that address deforestation and forest degradation and generate tangible Emission Reductions and Removals through Collective Action. She currently manages a portfolio of forest landscape programs with funding support from the FCPF (WB), GCF, UNDP and FAO, that address Climate Change mitigation and adaptation.
Roselyn holds a Master's Degree in Carbon Management from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a first degree in Natural Resources Management from The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
William Bumpers practiced as an environmental lawyer in the Washington, D.C., for 34 years, retiring recently from Baker Botts LLP, where he headed the firm's global Climate Change Practice. Mr. Bumpers has been involved with climate change issues for over thirty years and has been a frequent speaker regarding national and international climate policy. He was part of the team that undertook the feasibility study for the Prototype Carbon Fund established by The World Bank Group. He advised multiple companies regarding emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol and related national action plans. He has been involved in GHG-related projects and transactions under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Malaysia, China, Liberia, Brazil and Equatorial Guinea. Mr. Bumpers has helped multiple companies in developing responsible climate and energy policies, including the development and use of GHG offsets through forestry practices, renewable energy projects and destruction of CFCs. He represented companies involved in the capture and storage of GHG emissions, helped structure some of the first contracts regarding use of anthropogenic CO2 for oil production. Mr. Bumpers currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, is on the Advisory Board of the American Carbon Registry and is a Board member of Neighborhood Sun, a Maryland community solar company.