Chief Minister's Message
Minister of Industrial Development |
Datuk Sam Mannan is the Director of Sabah Forestry Department. His current portfolio includes logging monitoring in all Natural Forest Management harvesting areas under the Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) approach together with Global Forestry Services (M) Sdn Bhd, silviculture, rehabilitate and restore degraded areas in northern Ulu Segama and south-west of Danum Valley, within the Ulu Segama Forest Reserve in Sabah. Datuk has involved in Deramakot Forest Reserve which has been served as a benchmark towards achieving good forest management. Deramakot Forest Reserve remained the first and longest FSC (Forest Stewardship Council - the gold standard for forest management) certified tropical rainforest in the world. Based on more than 20 years hands-on experience in Deramakot, Datuk will provide his insight into good forest governance and conservation: the challenges of economic and financial sustainability.
Datuk holds Bachelor of Forestry Science, 2nd Class Honours, Division One, graduated from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1979.
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Maree Candish has over 20 years of experience in forest management and consulting and has degrees in forestry from the Universities of Canterbury and Oxford and an MBA from the University of Melbourne. She has been involved in the joint venture between New Forests and the Sabah government to establish a market for biodiversity offsets and has most recently worked with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and the Business Biodiversity Offset Program to further this aim. She also led the development of a REDD (avoided deforestation for carbon credits) project in Papua Indonesia for Deutsche Bank and is assisting other companies to evaluate the REDD opportunity. Past employment includes being a Director of P. F. Olsen and Company, New Zealand's largest forest management service provider; head of Poyry's Australian-based forestry consulting team where her team undertook forest valuations for assets up to US$1.6 billion in value and provided advice to forestry companies and governments around the Asia Pacific region; and led the development and operation of New Forests' Asian branch from 2007 to mid-2010. She is now establishing a forestry project management company to serve large scale investors in forest plantations and in REDD in the Asian region. |
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Dr Waidi Sinun, also known as hydrologist and the first Malaysian Scientist, is a Group Manager of the conservation and environmental management division of the Yayasan Sabah Group. The Division main activities area is to manage the Protected Areas under Yayasan Sabah, to name a few namely Danum Valley and Maliau Basin as well as to Implement international collaboration related to forest rehabilitation activities related. Dr's professional and career interests include protected area management, hydrologic and geomorphic processes, forest rehabilitation and restoration, biodiversity conservation, forest certification and carbon offsets and other GHG issues. Dr has presented papers in a course organised by Swedish International Development Agencies on Development of National Forest Policy and Strategies and proceedings of 1st International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources in Asia Pacific Region.
Dr holds Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Geology at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Master of Science at University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Later, Dr was awarded a PhD by the University of Manchester, studying hydrologic and geomorphic impacts of forest conversion in the Gunung Kinabalu Highlands Sabah Malaysia.
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Stephen Dickey is the founder and Managing Director of Redd Forests, an Australian based forest carbon project development company and has worked on climate change issues for the past 5 years firstly with Oxfam and WWF-Australia, as consultant to the carbon offsetting company Climate Friendly for whom he brokered a 50% sale of the company to Macquarie Bank and latterly as Managing director of CDRS Pty Ltd., a carbon market consultancy.
Stephen is an experienced senior manager having worked on four continents in regional or general manager positions with TNT, British Airways and Sabre Corporation and has successfully run his own business in the UK. Stephen's broad based international commercial experience, combined with his depth of knowledge on the science and practicalities of climate change give him a rare set of capabilities and perspectives to bring to the Forestry Carbon Market. |
