Blair is an Associate at Daemeter, providing advisory on the political economy of environmental governance, conflict analysis, and programme development across Indonesia’s land-use sectors. He brings more than two decades of experience working in international development in Indonesia, with particular strength in understanding how governance, politics, and institutional dynamics shape environmental outcomes at landscape and jurisdictional scale.

His expertise spans political economy assessment, programme design, civil society partnerships, and large-scale grant management. He has built and managed a multi-million dollar environmental governance programme addressing forest governance reform through support to civil society, and led the analysis of conflict and political dynamics for a major international development institution, contributing to the design of what became one of the largest public-access violence datasets in the world. His deep familiarity with Indonesia, its politics, institutions, and communities, underpins his ability to advise on programme design and stakeholder engagement at all levels, making him one of the firm’s anchor resources on landscape and jurisdictional governance.

Blair is motivated by work that connects governance analysis with practical outcomes for environmental and land-use policy. Before his consulting career, he spent five years analysing conflict dynamics and democratic transitions, and served as a field officer during a humanitarian crisis in Timor-Leste. He has also taught at universities in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Australian National University and an MSc in Mathematics from McGill University in Canada. He is fluent in Indonesian and English, with conversational French, Javanese, and Muna.