Interim Executive Director (IED), CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat
The CTI-CFF welcomes Dr. Hendra Yusran Siry as the Interim Executive Director (IED) of the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat. He will serve as the IED until a new Executive Director has been appointed by the CTI-CFF Council of Ministers (CTI COM).
Prior to joining the CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat, Dr. Hendra assumed several leadership roles as a Deputy Director for Coastal Disaster Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation of the Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) for eight years and Deputy Director for Spatial and Zoning Plans Region II for almost a year in the same ministry. He was responsible in developing strategic inputs and recommendations; providing policy coordination and technical advice/support for the formulation of standard operating procedures (SOPs); overseeing partnership management and resource mobilization; including managing development, implementation and management of programs in coastal disaster mitigation and climate change adaptation.
He completed his PhD under the Resources Management in Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) of the Australian National University under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) and holds a Master Degree from the School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) – Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) with the support of the Ford Foundation Grant, AIT Partial Scholarship and CUC-CIDA Assistantship programs.
He was the recipient of numerous academic grants such as the United Nations – Nippon Foundation Fellow, Asian Scholarship Fellow, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Fellow and Ford Foundation.
Dr. Hendra was part of the CTI-CFF Interim Regional Secretariat and member of Transition Team of CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat. He served as Secretary for Coordination and External Affairs from January 2013 up to March 2015 when the permanent Regional Secretariat was established.