A highly-motivated Communications, Knowledge Management, and stakeholder engagement professional, with work experience throughout the Asia/Pacific region, for the United Nations and for Cambodian NGOs in the Social and environment/natural resources, forests and climate change, human rights, and program execution fields. Expertise in sustainability, extractive industries, gender equity, education, and advocacy in support of community development objectives. Key experience includes:

• The development and implementation support of national Communications and Knowledge Management strategies for REDD+ in countries, including Cambodia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam;
• The organization of regional knowledge exchange events involving up to 10 countries on topics related to safeguards, national strategy, stakeholder engagement, and financing;
• The organization of national training courses (“REDD+ Academies”) in Bhutan, Myanmar and Viet Nam;
• Establishment and coordination stakeholder engagement;
• Strategic management of public outreach and relations efforts, including media contacts and outreach management, press conference, and internal and external communications;
• Conceptualization, design, management, and distribution of diverse messages, materials and products addressing critical forest-environmental to socio-economic issues across numerous organizational and cultural strata to convey essential messages; and
• The development and directing of a wide range of public awareness initiatives, such as online (web-site and workspace, etc.) and social media campaign, print and electronic media, including TV and radio shows, concert events, publications, etc.