Lafcadio Cortesi

Forest Campaign Director, Rainforest Action Network

Lafcadio has more than 20 years of experience working in a variety of roles and institutions in North America and the Asia-Pacific region on, market-based conservation approaches and private sector sustainability, policy analysis, institutional development, community-based natural resource management and conservation economies, and biodiversity conservation. He worked for 10 years as a campaign coordinator with Greenpeace Australia Pacific and three years as a Senior Program Officer with the US AID-funded Biodiversity Support Program in Indonesia. He started his career as a volunteer with the Institute for Appropriate Technology Development a local Indonesian community development NGO in central Java and has authored three publications on related issues.