Karen is an Associate at Daemeter, providing facilitation, training, and stakeholder engagement expertise across the firm’s sustainability and natural resource governance programmes. With more than 25 years of international experience in participatory forestry, CBNRM, REDD+, and FPIC, she is one of the region’s most experienced facilitators of multi-stakeholder processes in the land-use sector, bridging landscape governance, implementation enablement, and the adaptive learning processes that turn community engagement into measurable outcomes.

She has designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder processes for RSPO compensation procedures, HCV-HCS-FPIC integration, green growth visioning, and strategic planning, working with government, private sector, civil society, and community stakeholders across Asia and Africa. She is also an experienced training designer and has authored widely used manuals on facilitation, FPIC for REDD+, grassroots equity in climate change, and community-based forest biomass monitoring. Her facilitation practice integrates appreciative inquiry, visualisation, and graphic facilitation for creative, open-space engagement, with CBNRM as a natural framework for adaptive accountability over time.

Karen is drawn to work that builds genuine capacity in the people and institutions closest to the resource, from frontline extension officers to community facilitators. Her career spans long-term assignments in Indonesia, Malawi, and Thailand, as well as short-term work across more than 15 countries, with roles at a regional community forestry training centre, an EU-funded forestry programme in southern Africa, and community development programmes in eastern Indonesia.

She holds an MSc in Forestry and its Relation to Land Use from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Reading. She is fluent in Indonesian and English, with basic French, Thai, and Chichewa.