The elected IMCG Main Board of 13 recently co-opted Faizal Parish as additional Main Board member.
Faizal Parish is an ecologist with 25 years experience in peatland assessment, management and conservation. He has been based in Malaysia for the past 24 years and was the Director of Wetlands International Asia Pacific for 15 years and has been the Director of the Global Environment Centre since 1998. He has played a key role in the development of the ASEAN Peatland Management Strategy (2006-2020) which was adopted by the Ministers of the environment from the 10 member countries of the Association of SE Asian Nations in November 2006. For the past four years he has been the technical coordinator of a global project on integrated management of peatlands for biodiversity and climate change and has also been active in guiding restoration of peatlands in China and Southeast Asia