Satrio WICAKSONO

Satrio A. Wicaksono is an Indonesian scientist-environmentalist based in Bangkok, Thailand. He works as Regional Coordinator, Forest and Drylands at IUCN Asia Regional Office. In this role, he leads and supports a portfolio of forest and drylands-related country, sub-regional, and regional projects across Asia, and contributes to forest and drylands-related results of the IUCN global programme. He is also a 2024 Yale Climate Fellow.

Previously, he served as Forest and Land Use Governance Expert at the European Forest Institute's EU REDD Facility, where he provided analytical and technical support to Southeast Asian countries in their efforts to slow, halt, and reverse deforestation. He also served as a manager-cum-researcher at WRI Indonesia, a non-profit research organization affiliated with the World Resources Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based global environmental think tank. He led WRI forest and landscape restoration efforts in Indonesia, in addition to developing and managing WRI Indonesia's Sustainable Ocean Initiative portfolio, in charge of fundraising, strategic planning, and research capacity development.

Satrio received a PhD in Climate Science from Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. He completed a doctoral dissertation at Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences on the variability of Indonesian precipitation and terrestrial ecology across geological and historical timescales.