Experts & Staff

Ariana Alisjahbana is the Project Coordinator/Research Assistant for Project POTICO in WRI’s People and Ecosystems Program (PEP). She also provides research support to the Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI) team in the Institutions and Governance Program (IGP). Ariana’s work focuses on forestry in Indonesia, including issues surrounding palm oil and other drivers of deforestation, as well as the forest governance challenges facing the country.

Prior to WRI, Ariana was a research assistant at the University of Indonesia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research (LPEM FEUI) in Jakarta, where she conducted research on Indonesian energy security. Previously, she was an intern at the Paris-based non-profit Planete Urgence, and was part of the Indonesian delegation to the UNFCCC COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

Ariana graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Analysis & Policy. She is bilingual in English and Indonesian.