Biographical Statement
MUBARIQ AHMAD is a senior sustainability economist with a career spanning over four decades in various policy research and non-governmental organizations. Mubariq holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics (Michigan State University,1997), MA in International Trade and Finance (Economics Department, Columbia University, New York, 1990), and BA in Economics (University of Indonesia, 1985).
For nine years until January 2025, Mubariq served as Country Director of Conservation Strategy Fund/CSF-Indonesia, the organization that builds capacity of community of change makers inside and outside government agencies in policy analysis and design from sustainability economics and good governance. Prior to joining CSF Indonesia, Mubariq worked as Senior Environmental Economist with the World Bank Indonesia Office during 2010-2015 and was jointly assigned to lead the Strategy Working Group at Indonesia’s REDD+ Task Force in 2011-2013. He had also worked as Executive Director of WWF Indonesia in 2003-2009 and Executive Director of Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute in 1997-2000. He served as member of Steering Committee of The Forest Dialogue under the auspices of WBCSD/Yale University in 2000-2008, and member of WEF Council on Ecosystem and Biodiversity in 2008-2010. Mubariq has also served in the international editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Forest Policy and Economics in 2000-2010. Mubariq also maintained his role as non-permanent lecturer at University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of the Environment until 2024.