Cristi Marie NOZAWA

Cristi Marie C Nozawa

Cristi joined Birdlife International in mid-1998 initially as partner development officer focusing on capacity building, institutional and network development; eventually as Regional Director for Asia in 2007 (based in Japan until 2012) and continues to do so to date out of the new Birdlife Asia regional office in Singapore. She currently serves in the management committee of the East Asia Australasia Flyway Partnership (EAAFP). She became the Regional Vice chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA) for South East Asia and is member of the Executive Committee and the Steering Committee of the OIUCN WCPA up to this time. She has helped organize, facilitate and conduct management effectiveness training and gap analysis workshops Biodiversity. She is an adviser to the World Heritage task force of IUCN WCPA and a World Heritage resource person for the UNITAR. 

Cristi is now as Executive Director of Samdhana Institute from 2016. Cristi is also a fellow of Samdhana Institute and conduct of a nationwide set of trainings on integrated coastal management (ICM) for practitioners from both government and non-government organizations in the Philippines before 1998. She has been involved in protected area management, ICM, community based natural resources management and capacity development for over 25 years and took her postgraduate at the University of London.