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🎙️Meet the speakers

🌴China Dialogue Trust will be holding a break-out session during this year's Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

🪡Check out this thread to learn about our speakers

If you are attending #RT2022, look out for our session!

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🎙️Dr Sam Geall (@samgeall)
💼CEO, China Dialogue

Sam is CEO of China Dialogue, an associate fellow at @ChathamHouse & associate faculty at @SPRU, at the University of Sussex. He edited China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books, 2013).

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🎙️Jessica Aldred (@j_aldred)
💼Special projects editor, China Dialogue

Jessica edits coverage of globally important environmental themes, incl. ocean, #palmoil & biodiversity. She is former @guardian environment editor & has worked in major newsrooms in UK & Australia.

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🎙️Lou Del Bello (@LouDelBello)
💼Freelance journalist, former special projects editor, @third_pole, India #palmoil commissioning editor, China Dialogue

Lou worked as environment correspondent @ Bloomberg & freelance science writer @ BBC, Undark, Nature News, New Scientist.

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🎙️Alejandra Cuellar (@ale__cuellar)
💼Latin America editor, Diálogo Chino

Alejandra is based in Mexico City and has worked in Colombia, Chile, Haiti & USA. She writes articles & produces videos on topics related to the environment & China's influence in Latin America.

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🎙️Abdul Samba Brima (@ComBrima005)
💼West Africa regional editor, China Dialogue

Abdul is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he works as a broadcaster, editor, journalism trainer/mentor, multimedia producer and freelance writer.

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🎙️Jiang Yifan
💼Formerly senior Beijing editor, China Dialogue

Yifan was responsible for curating and editing contents on forest-risk commodity supply chains, including #palmoil, from China Dialogue's Beijing desk.

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🎙️Dr Josie Phillips (@josiepips)
💼Palm oil researcher, China Dialogue

Focusing on supply chains, & social + environmental issues linked to new expansion & rising demand for biodiesel, Josie has 10yrs’ experience with ENGOs & conducting field-based conservation research.

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🎙️Ravin Trapshah (@ravin_trapshah)
💼Global lead, sustainability communications & stakeholder engagement, Wilmar International

Ravin is a comms professional who has spent the last decade focusing on sustainability, mostly in the #palmoil industry in Malaysia & Indonesia.

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🎙️Timer Manurung (@timermanurung)
💼Executive Director, @AURIGA_ID, Indonesia lead partner, @TraseEarth

Auriga Nusantara began collaborating with Trase in 2017, & play a key role in mapping Indonesian supply chains & deforestation risk, & strategy & engagement work.

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🎙️Ristika Putri Istanti (@ristika_putri)
💼 Deputy of Program, Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (Sustainable District Association)

Ristika manages co-creation processes with district governments across Indonesia to boost sustainable development.

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🎙️Leena Ghosh (@RSPOtweets)
💼Head of human rights & social standards, RSPO

Leena pioneered human rights projects as head of ASEAN's Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, before going on to work as senior advisor to National Peace & Reconciliation Centre, Myanmar.

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