Our Team
Traction Energy Asia (TEA) is an independent, multidisciplinary group of experts and advocates on climate change, energy policy, CO2 emissions reduction, clean energy and the law.
Traction Energy Asia (TEA) is an independent, multidisciplinary group of experts and advocates on climate change, energy policy, CO2 emissions reduction, clean energy and the law.
Giorgio is an expert in environmental law, and over the past 14+ years has been lead consultant on a variety of projects, including providing expert advice specializing in climate change, land use change and forestry.
Lucky is a recognized energy policy analyst, related to fossil fuel subsidy reform and public behavior, mass communications, political economy, macroeconomic analysis, and the gender impact of reform.
Managing partner in leading Jakarta law firm, RMA & Associates, Ruth has extensive experience across environmental law and regulations, particularly in oil, gas and mining, as well as in import / export and labour.
Yuyun helped shape Indonesia’s Legal Timber standard, REDD+ social and environmental safeguards, and the CSO common platform on the forest moratorium. He is a member of Forest Watch Indonesia and the Indonesia Ecolabel Institute. After leading forest political work for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, he is now Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s Regional Political Advisor for climate & energy issues, including global climate politics and urban sustainability.
Haryo is a digital technology and open source enthusiast with over 10 years of professional experience. He is passionate about the role digital technology plays in environmental sustainability, clean energy and related security issues. Haryo is an expert in engineering, networking, information security and operating system software, virtualization, as well as hardware and IoT. He currently supports Greenpeace Southeast Asia as the Regional Information Security officer.
13+ years experience in project design, strategy development, socio-economic studies, monitoring and evaluation, and partnership building with stakeholders.
Natalia is an accountant with 14+ years experience in financial reporting, tax calculation and reporting, budgeting, and audit, both in profit and non-profit organizations.
30 years experience of designing and implementing strategies and communications for key climate, energy and forest related issues, based first in Europe and, for the past 17 years, in Asia.
He is an alumni of Master in Economic and Development Studies in Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang (2007). He’s main interest is in regional economic studies and public policy analysis related to structuring and improving safety capabilities. Often involved in the work of formulating economic development strategies and designing technocratic regional development planning documents.
Refina completed her studies from the University of Indonesia with a public policy and biology major. During the study period, she had a considerable interest in social and humanities where this interest led her to become one of the university delegates in a student exchange scholarship program in Malaysia. She has more than 3 years’ experience in public relations and public affairs in the health and education sectors. Refina’s career journey started from a technology startup to an international relations office at one of the largest educational institutions in Indonesia.
Graduated from Applied Meteorology, IPB University, with the thesis title “Ethnometeorology: a Local Wisdom Approach for Early Rainy Season Prediction in Southern Banten”. He is interested in climate, energy, and social fields with capabilities in spatial-temporal data analysis and visualization.
Rinanda Dwirintha Putri (Rintha) graduated from Universitas Diponegoro, major in Economics, concentration in Regional Economics. Have interest in regional development issues, energy transition, and climate change. Experienced as a research assistant on emission issues and quantitative research assistant at Social Economic NGO. In addition, Rintha has work experience in a startup that focuses on educational issues.
Anisa Dwi Ariyani (Anisa) completed her studies in Economics at Diponegoro University, with a concentration in public economics. During her studies, Anisa was active in various activities and organizations related to economic and social issues. One of them is involvement in being deputy head of a study group working in the economic and social fields. During her studies, Anisa also had experience as a lecturer assistant and Bloomberg laboratory assistant at Diponegoro University. The journey of collaboration started from being a junior analyst at a government institution working in the field of national planning and development.
Aqshal Abiyoga Muhammad (Aqshal) graduated from IPB University majoring in Environmental Resource Economics. Aqshal has an interest in the Environment and Sustainability. During my studies, I enjoyed exploring issues of environmental sustainability and restorative economics. He worked as a field event coordinator for Health Safety Environment certification for 2 years to develop skills for planning and executing events well. His undergraduate thesis was about the influence of Covid-19 on the income of island communities and resilience analysis can be a reference for island communities if a pandemic occurs and a lockdown is implemented.
Ririen completed her study from Atma Jaya University in Yogyakarta with Communication Studies major. She has more than 10 years of experience in communication strategies as well as program development and management for issues in the scope of sustainable development including other issues i.e. new and renewable energy, gender equality and human rights. She started her career as a freelance researcher and then worked and became a consultant for several NGOs (national/international) in Indonesia.
Annisa holds a Bachelor Degree in Environmental Engineering Diponegoro University graduated in 2018. She is very passionate in Healthy Safety Environment (HSE), Clean Production and Environmental Management System. She also certified as ‘Calon Ahli K3 Umum’ given by Kementerian Ketenagakerjaan Republik Indonesia. Her undergraduate thesis was about soundproofing organic material to form noise reduction inflicted from a generator set which was used as a prototype on her university major.
Graduated from the faculty of language and arts at Indraprasta PGRI University. She has more than three years experience working in one of the state-owned banks in Jakarta as Executive Staff. She was awarded as the employee with the Best Work Performance in September 2016.
Dian has more than two years of experience working in finance. Has worked in a non-profit organization (NGO) and one of the startups in Indonesia engaged in financial technology.
Fajri has more than 10 years experience as an Accountant. Expert in Financial Reporting, Financial Analysis, Financial Forecasting & Budgeting, Financial Modeling and Auditing for State-owned Company, Public Company and Big 10 Audit Firm. He completed Master degree from University of Indonesia majored Accounting in 2022. He also part of Proyek Strategis Nasional (PSN) Indonesia for DAM construction, Modernization Irigation and PLTA construction as Project Accounting & Finance Coordinator.
Patrick Ziegenhain is from Germany. His main areas of research are economic, political and social developments in Southeast Asia. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Department of Business Administration at Atma Jaya University in Jakarta, Indonesia. Previously, he had been Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute of University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2016 – 2018); Interim Professor at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at Geothe- University Frankfurt, Germany (2015); Visiting Professor at De la Salle University Manila, Philliphines in 2014; and Assistant Professor (“Akademischer Rat”) at the Department of Political Science in University of Trier, Germany (2007 – 2014).
Ria Fitriana has been working in marine biodiversity governance and coastal community’s livelihoods for over than twenty years. She is familiar with bi- and multi lateral assignments and arrangements. She has been involved in preparing several full proposal documents for UN organizations and NGOs which includes preparing project components, budget and analyzing sustainability (innovative financing mechanism, partnership, and institutional arrangement). In general she is familiar with biodiversity financing mechanism and planning biodiversity initiative. She has strong interests in community based economic development and market link of natural resource commodities. Ria Fitriana has been working in coastal and marine governance, especially coastal community livelihoods for more than fifteen years. She has myriad experiences with conducting research as well as implementing best practices on marine and coastal resources in Indonesia, Timor Leste and PNG. She has extensive knowledge on socio economic coastal villagers, value chain analysis of marine products, marine products development, gender and livelihoods of small scale fishers. She conducted a value chain (VC) study for ILO, FAO, UNDP TNC, Oxfam, CSIRO and PLAN International. She promotes the use of VCA to strengthen the participation of small scale producers in the supply chain.
Firmansyah is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Development Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Diponegoro University (UNDIP). Currently, alongside his role as a lecturer and researcher at FEB UNDIP, he also serves as the chairman of the Cluster of Economic and Policy Modeling (CEPM) at FEB UNDIP. His research interests include quantitative economics and modeling, macroeconomic and sectoral/industry economic policies, employment, and economic planning. He is actively engaged in publishing research in reputable national and international journals. Furthermore, he serves as an instructor and speaker in training and seminars on economics and analytical tools at both regional and international levels. Additionally, he plays an active role as a manager and reviewer for academic journals. Firmansyah obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University (UGM), and earned his Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Australia.
Shanty Oktavilla is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, The State University of Semarang. Her research primarily focuses on macroeconomic policies, trade, and environmental issues. She completed her doctoral education at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Diponegoro University (UNDIP), and is affiliated as a researcher with the Cluster of Economic and Policy Modeling (CEPM) at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNDIP. In her professional capacity, she currently serves as the Head of Research and Community Engagement at the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) Semarang, Central Java Coordinator. Her community service activities primarily involve assisting in development planning in various regions and supporting Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) and Tourism Villages. Apart from actively contributing to academic publications, she also holds the position of Chief Editor at the Journal of Economics and Policy (JEJAK) and serves as an editorial team member and reviewer for several academic journals.