President

Jan Kees Vis was trained as a chemist. He joined Unilever in 1985, at the Unilever Research Laboratory in Vlaardingen. He held several positions there, and then moved to the foods business. For more than 10 years he worked on Environmental Life Cycle Analysis, implementation of Environmental Management Systems, environmental auditing, organizing environmental training courses, environmental reporting and preparation of policy proposals on environmental issues. Since beginning of 2001, he is the responsible for coordinating Unilever’s Sustainable Agriculture programme.

Tel  : +31 10 2174585
Fax : +31 10 2174149

Vice-President I

Dr Matthias Diemer is WWF’s representative in the Executive Board. He is Director of the Forest Programme of WWF Switzerland and Head of WWF’s Forest Conversion Initiative (FCI). Prior to joining WWF in 2003 he worked in adult and experiential education, and as researcher and lecturer in ecology at various European universities.

Tel  : +41 1 297 2238
Fax : +41 1 297 2100

Vice-President II

Derom Bangun, a Chemical Engineer, joined PT Socfindo, a palm oil producer, where as Head of the Technical Department he designed and executed the erection of palm oil mills and refineries. He received an award from the Government of Indonesia for his contribution to the control of environmental pollution by rubber and palm oil mills. He is chairman of GAPKI (Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association) and as a speaker, he has made presentations in Malaysia, China , India, UK and Singapore.

Tel  : +62 61 847 3331-2
Fax : +62 61 846 8851

Vice-President III

Dato’ Mamat Salleh has recently taken over from Mr. Azizi Meor Ngah as the Chief Executive of MPOA. He has 34 years of experience in various semi government agencies and the palm oil industry. His last position was with the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) as Deputy Director General. During his active career, he had worked in the Urban Development Authority (UDA), National Livestock Development Authority (NALDA), Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) and Palm Oil Registration and Licensing Authority (PORLA). He was educated in University of Malaya (Bachelor of Economics), University of Agriculture, Malaysia and Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands (Post Graduate Diploma and Masters of Social Science).

Tel  : +60 3 2710 5680
Fax : +60 3 2710 5679

Vice-President IV

Simon Lord has a Degree in Applied Biology, Doctorate in “Environmental effects of pesticides” and twenty one years management experience in the commercial agriculture sector, 11 years at a senior level. Currently, Lord is Head of Research for New Britain Palm Oil Ltd based at Dami Oil Palm Research Station, PNG. He directs a multi-disciplined research group, leading programs in Agronomy, Plant Breeding, Biotechnology, and Environmental Science. Lord is responsible for implementing and maintaining ISO 14001, ISO 9001, Occupational health and Safety (OHS) and RSPO principles within the company. Involved with the RSPO since 2002, he is a member of the Criteria Working Group, Verification Working Group, and Smallholder Task Force as well as Facilitator for the PNG National Interpretation group.

Tel  : +675 985 4023
Fax : +675 985 4002

Treasurer

Following an international career at Mars Incorporated, Grand Metropolitan Foods, and Northern Foods which provided a diversity of food industry experience, Ian McIntosh joined Aarhus United UK (formerly Anglia Oil Ltd) as managing director in June 1998. Following the merger of the Karlshamn Group and Aarhus United, he was appointed President of AAK UK and Vice President of AAK AB. Mr McIntosh holds masters degrees in Engineering (Cranfield) and Business Administration (Bradford), and speaks fluent German.

Tel  : +44 (0) 1482 701271
Fax : +44 (0) 1482 709447

Members

Umberto Villars was trained as a buyer. He joined Migros in 2000 at the Migros' production unit MIFA for margarines. He is responsible for the strategic purchasing for raw materials within MIFA and he is coordinating all activities for palm oil and other oils within Migros' industrial production units. Prior to joining Migros in 2000 he worked for several multinational chemical companies in the same position as in MIFA.

Tel  : +41 61 905 9480
Fax : +41 61 905 9395

Don Grubba is the Global Sustainability Director as well as the Business Development Director for Biofuels for IOI Group based in the Netherlands. Prior to his current role he served as President of IOI Group’s Loders Croklaan North American businesses and possesses 30 years of experience in the food industry and is currently an officer of the Institute of Shortenings and Edible Oils (ISEO) based in Washington, DC. Mr Grubba holds degrees in Food Science and Nutrition (Rutgers University) and an MBA-Finance (DePaul University, Chicago, USA).

Tel  : +31 (0) 75 629 24 35
Fax : +31 (0) 75 629 28 38

Tony Lass

Tel  : +44 (0) 121 451 5662
Fax : +44 (0) 121 698 4949

Rikke Jarvad Netterstrom is the Ethical Policy Manager of The Body Shop International Plc. Prior to joining The Body Shop in 2004, she worked as Corporate Responsibility Advisor at Novozymes, a Danish biotech company, and as a public affairs consultant. She holds a masters degree in International Business and Development Studies from the Copenhagen Business School.

Tel : +44 (0) 1903 731 500, ext 7964

Fitrian Ardiansyah has approximately ten years of extensive work and research experience in the fields of sustainable development (including sustainable forest management, sustainable palm oil), natural resource management (NRM), mangrove and coastal development, spatial planning (including watershed management), environmental and ecological economics (incl. payment for environmental services) in NGOs, the public sector, consultancy and universities in Indonesia, Southeast Asia and Australia. He holds a master degree in Environmental Management and Development from the Australian National University. He currently works as Program Coordinator for Forest Restoration and Threats Mitigation for WWF-Indonesia.

Tel  : +62 21 576 1070 ext 306/310
Fax : +62 21 576 1080 

Johan Verburg is responsible for the corporate contacts that Oxfam Novib, the Dutch affiliate, has with multinationals on issues such as value chain responsibility. He also represents Oxfam International in the Global Reporting Initiative's Stakeholder Council. He has a background in consultancy on management and sustainability in southern Africa and the Netherlands (KPMG, SGS a.o.).

Tel  : +31 70 3421988
Fax : +31 70 3614461

Rudy Lumuru

Tel  : +62 81 21 101016
Fax : +62 251 352047

Simon Harris joined HSBC in 1981 and has worked for the group throughout Asia and the Middle East. As Chief Credit Officer of HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd, he is responsible for the quality of the bank's lending and for implementing the bank's global environmental guidelines in Malaysia. He has been in this role since late 2004.

Tel  : +60 3 20700744
Fax : +60 3 20701146

Samantha Lacey joined CIS as a Responsible Shareholding Analyst in May 2005 after completing a PhD in microbial ecology and a short time working for a Corporate Social Responsibility consultancy firm. She completed her first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. Samantha’s role at CIS includes analysing companies’ approaches to the social, ethical and environmental risks they face and engaging with companies to encourage improvement on specific issues. Over the past year and a half she has engaged with most UK listed companies who purchase palm oil to encourage them to join the RSPO and address the associated issues in their supply chains.

Tel  : +44 (0)161 903 4546
 

Mohd Nor Kailany

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Advisor to the Executive Board

M R Chandran (“MR”) was educated at King’s College, South Australia and the University of Adelaide graduating in Agricultural Economics and Technology. He is a 46-year veteran of the agro-commodities industry with professional experience in the executive management of business operations within the tree crop plantation sector. Having served for 35 years he retired as Director and Head of Plantations of Socfin Company Berhad in 1996. He was the start-up Chief Executive of the Malaysia Palm Oil Association (MPOA) and served this umbrella entity tasked with the function of balancing the needs and interests of the various sectors for synergy and development of the plantation industry, from 1999 to mid 2005. He was also involved in the formation of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), served as Chairman of RT1 in 2003 and appointed as a Vice-President during 2004/2005.

Tel  : +6012 2195035
Fax : +60 3 6411 8828

RSPO Secretariat

Secretary-General

Andrew Ng received his Bachelors of Arts from University of Toronto, Canada, Majoring in Political Science with a Minor in East-Asian Studies in 1995. Joining the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Malaysia in 1998 as Environmental Policy Analyst, he articulated WWF’s positions on key national conservation and sustainable development issues. As part of WWF’s Forest Conversion Initiative in 2001, he worked on strengthening dialogue between producers as the Malaysia Programme Co-ordinator till 2004. Before accepting the post of Secretary-General of RSPO, he developed his own independent consulting service with the goal of bringing about industry-civil society collaboration.

Tel : +60 3 6411 8803
Fax: +60 3 6411 8828

Aeimelia Kalsom

Tel : +60 3 6411 8803
Fax: +60 3 6411 8828

After her BSc in Agricultural Social Economics from Bogor Agricultural University, Desi Kusumadewi spent six years working at an oil palm plantation company, Lyman Agro. Her post at the company started as Secretary to Plantation Controller in its Regional Office in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, then for a period of 9 (nine) months she was stationed in one of its oil palm estate in Sintang district, West Kalimantan, assisting the Regional Plantation Manager. Her last position in Lyman Agro was Secretary to Marketing Manager in its head office in Jakarta. Ms Desi is now RSPO Indonesia Liaison Officer based in Jakarta.

Tel/Fax : + 62 21 7827460

Si-Siew Lim is an Environmental Engineering graduate from Columbia University in the City of New York, USA. He spent two and a half years doing ecological restoration and other ecology-related work in the Americas before returning to Malaysia where he joined Partners for Wetlands/WWF-Malaysia as a land use officer based in Sabah, East Malaysia. He is currently assisting the Secretary-General in the RSPO Secretariat in his hometown, Kuala Lumpur. 

Tel : +60 3 6411 8803
Fax: +60 3 6411 8828

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