Adam Gerrand

Adam Gerrand is an international forestry expert with over 30 years work experience in forestry.

1. In Australia he worked for both State and National government agencies including the Manager of the Australian National Forest Inventory from 2001-07 including a co-author of Australia’s State of the Forests Report.
2. Since 2008 worked at FAO, firstly coordinating the Global Forest Remote Sensing Survey to develop new estimates of global deforestation rates.
3. From 2012 he worked with FAO UN-REDD on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) supporting developing countries to improve their National Forest Monitoring Systems.
4. Since 2018 he moved to Jakarta to support to Indonesia with their National Forest Monitoring Systems including forest inventory and remote sensing for forest and peatland monitoring.