Godwin is the Senior Project Manager at Daemeter, based in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, and the firm’s Knowledge Area Lead for Social, Smallholder and Livelihoods. His work spans community engagement, smallholder facilitation, multi-stakeholder governance, and the adaptive collaborative management approaches that support learning and accountability over long-running landscape programmes.

He has been living and working in Borneo since 1990, giving him over 35 years of on-the-ground experience in the region. His core strengths are in participatory mapping, community empowerment, capacity building, and multi-stakeholder engagement, applied across oil palm, forestry, mining, and conservation contexts. He has led large-scale smallholder mapping and engagement programmes in Sumatera and Kalimantan, and delivered HCV assessor training in Indonesia and Myanmar. His grounding in action research and adaptive collaborative management, drawn from earlier work with CIFOR, makes him particularly effective at designing programmes that learn from communities over time and adjust as conditions change.

Godwin is drawn to complex, people-centred assignments that require facilitation, practical problem solving, and strong field teamwork. Before Daemeter, he built extensive experience across international conservation and research organisations, mining company-linked foundations, and agricultural extension, always working at the interface between agriculture, forest management, and conservation.

He holds an MSc in Tropical Crop Science from Wageningen Agricultural University. He works in Dutch, Indonesian, and English. Beyond work, Godwin is a keen farmer and an avid reader on economics and politics, and uses his time off to take morning walks and travel deeper into Indonesia’s more remote corners.