Daemeter was co-founded by Aisyah Sileuw and Gary Paoli in 2007, who were joined shortly thereafter by Philip Wells as a partner in the organization. Aisyah is President Director and leads the social division. Gary is Director of Research and Project Development and leads the biodiversity and training divisions. Philip is Director of GIS and Spatial Planning and leads Daemeter’s in-house GIS laboratory.
Daemeter combines in-house expertise of full-time staff with select use of qualified outside national and expatriate consultants to form expert project teams.
Aisyah is a co-founder and President Director of Daemeter Consulting. She has ten years experience working on social aspects of sustainable forest management, community forestry, chain of custody and other forest verification initiatives. Aisyah has her first degree from the Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, and a MSc in Applied Development Studies at University of Reading, UK. She also attended non-degree courses on Linking Forest Resources to Markets and Societies organized by the Faculty of Forestry, Freiburg University, Germany in 2004 and 2005. Together with Gary Paoli, Aisyah co-coordinated the national revision of the HCV Toolkit for Indonesia completed in 2008.
Philip is Director of GIS and Remote Sensing for Daemeter Consulting. He is a GIS and landscape ecology specialist with Master of Research Degree in Ecology and Environmental Management from the University of York. Philip has lived in Indonesia since 1992 where he worked with government and non-government organizations for the conservation of large mammals and their habitat. In recent years he has focused primarily on biodiversity conservation outside of Indonesia’s protected areas, working with industry and local government in the development of action plans, land use planning, and HCV assessment and management. Philip was an active participant in development of the revised HCV Toolkit for Indonesia. His specialty skills include GIS, remote sensing, population modeling and landscape ecology.
Syafuri (Yuri) is a Daemeter staff member specializing in field reconnaissance of project assessment areas. He also assists in secondary data collection prior to surveys and socio-cultural data collection during field surveys.
Agnes is Daemeter’s research associate, specializes in mammal surveys and associated habitat assessments. Agnes is in her last semester as an undergraduate student of Conservation Biology at National University (UNAS) in Jakarta. She has a research background in primate ecology and conservation, especially orangutan behaviour and feeding ecology in Kalimantan.
Iwan is Senior Staff for social and cultural assessments at Daemeter. He began his career in a Bogor-based forest consulting firm preparing management plans and Environmental Impact Assessment (especially socio-economic and cultural aspects) for forestry companies. He has a degree in Forest Product Technology from the Forestry Faculty of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).
Ayu is Sustainability Officer at Daemeter, mainly responsible in the social business activities. She graduated from University of Indonesia in Anthropology in 2007. Currently she is completing her Master Degree also in University of Indonesia majoring in Conservation Biology. Ayu has work experience in chain-of-custody certification for wood products and has assisted the Indonesia Liaison Office for the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil prior to joining Daemeter.
Aji is GIS technician at Daemeter. He graduate from the Forestry Faculty at the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), with specialist training in GIS and remote sensing. He has substantial practical GIS experience, having worked with a number of research and conservation projects in Indonesia.
Kiky (Ija) is a lead member of Daemeter’s finance and administrative staff. Prior to joining Daemeter he worked for four years as administrative staff in the finance division of companies in various industries. He holds a diploma in Economics, majoring in tax management.