Isabel Pereira | Timor Leste

Isabel’s background is in Climate Change Forestry and Agroforestry science. 

Highly skilled in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), GIS and Remote Sensing, watershed management development and forestry programme interventions Isabel has consulted on various programs of national significance in Timor-Leste.

Most recently she has been contracted by the UN FAO to design the M&E system for the MAF, Timor-Leste.

Isabel spent 2016 to 2018 implementing a European Union funded project in Timor-Leste called the Global Climate Change Alliance. Continuing on with the same team, she then consulted on the design of the Partnership for Sustainable Agroforestry project. 

Consulting to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Rediness Project “Enhancing human resources, systems and procedures in Timor-Leste to effectively engage with the Green Climate Fund” Isabel developed the National Climate Change Policy and GCF Readiness Proposal for Timor-Leste. 

Proving she is a driven entrepreneur as well as scientist, in 2017 Isabel established her own nursery business, producing sandalwood and rosewood seedlings and grafting high value fruit trees with the aim of supporting increased domestic production of fruit and timber. 

Isabel received a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy at the National University of Timor-Lorosa’e in 2010 and went on to obtain a Master of Agricultural Science, specialising in Genetics and Breeding from The University of Western Australia. 

Isabel has a long-standing and productive relationship with ACIAR. She is a John Allwright Fellow, now a Meryl Williams Fellow and spent her early career as a researcher at Seeds of Life, a project funded collaboratively by ACIAR and the Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding within the University of Western Australia. In 2019 Isabel travelled to Samoa to take part in an ACIAR leadership program as a part of her ongoing connection to the ACIAR alumni network.