About People & Nature Consulting

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Team

Mr. Danang Widodo (Managing Director) spent more than half of his career in financial and operational management at various levels in various countries. Among his employers were two Fortune 500 MNCs. Danang has more than 5 years experience in NGO management, including 2.5 years on-site management and 2.5 years of consulting. Danang's strengthes are strong leadership with deep understanding of corporate strategy, finance and business forecasting, operations and HR management, supply chain management, and business process re-engineering. His expertise in general management areas supports his clients with developing their organizational strengths, encouraging excellent corporate governance practices and fostering strategic decision making. Download Danang's CV

Edward M. Norton Sr. (President Director) is a lawyer by training (J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1971), and he has been an advocate for the protection of special places of natural and historic value for more than 30 years.  After various assignments, in 1977 he became  a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney in Maryland, prosecuting violations of federal criminal law and supervising all environmental litigation in which federal agencies were involved in the U.S. District Court for Maryland.  In 1981, he became special counsel to The Wilderness Society, a national conservation organization in the United States. He also served as Deputy Executive Director and Director of Membership and Development for The Wilderness Society. In 1986, he became the founding President of the Grand Canyon Trust, a regional conservation organization dedicated to protecting the national parks, public lands, and rivers in the Colorado Plateau.  He was also the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, an organization that works to convert abandoned railroad corridors into recreational trails.  He also was one of the founders and leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Project which worked to lift the trade embargo and to establish normal relations with Vietnam. In 1994, he became Vice President for Law and Public Policy of the National Trust for Historic Preservation responsible for all federal and state legislation and legal affairs for the National Trust.  He served in that position until 1999, when he moved to Kunming, Yunnan Province, China to become the Senior Advisor to The Nature Conservancy’s China Program.   In that role, he helped to create The Conservancy’s Yunnan Great Rivers Project to conserve biodiversity in northwest Yunnan Province and to establish a system of Nature Reserves and Protected Areas.  During his six years as Senior Advisor, The Nature Conservancy’s staff grew from 4 to 54 people with five offices at sites in northwest Yunnan and an office in Beijing working on national level policy issues with the Government of China. From January to June 2005, he was Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Natural Resources and Environmental Law and Policy at the Department of Social and Cultural Ecology, Graduate School of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. From August 2005 to January 15, 2007, Mr. Norton served as The Nature Conservancy’s Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Region, based in Bali, Indonesia and working on marine and terrestrial biodiversity conservation projects in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, China, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.  Mr. Norton is now Senior Advisor to the USAID – Indonesia Orangutan Conservation Support Project.  He is also the President Director of PNC Consulting International.  Download Ed's CV

Dr. Jos S. Pet (Principal Partner and Technical Advisor) has a Ph.D. in tropical fisheries management. Jos was a lecturer and researcher, and worked for various universities and international agencies in the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Jos contributed to the design of marine fisheries research programs in Java, Sulawesi, and Flores and started up the Komodo National Park marine protected area project as the TNC Komodo Project Leader in 1995. As the TNC Coral Triangle Center (CTC) Program Manager Jos lead the CTC team on the implementation of site-based MPA development projects (in Komodo, Wakatobi, Raja Ampat and Derawan), and supported conservation science, training, communications, policy and financing, and program administration, from the center’s base in Bali. As a member of the TNC Indonesia senior management team, he worked with the Indonesia program leadership on strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising and marketing. Jos has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers and reports on issues related mainly to fisheries management and marine conservation. In 2007, Jos and partners founded PNC-I. In the first year of operations, projects that Jos worked on included NGO support contracts (WWF and TNC), environmental impact assessments for ship insurers, eco-tourism projects (representation of a dive and adventure company) and a representative function for the Walton Family Foundation. Download Jos's CV

Dr. Peter J. Mous (Fisheries and Protected Area Specialist) specializes in fisheries and marine protected area management. His stengths are ecological and resource use monitoring, quantitative analyses of coastal artisanal fisheries, development of zoning plans and of progress monitoring instruments, and training of practitioners. In 2007-2008, worked as Marine Protected Area Advisor of the World Bank-funded Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program, which is implemented by the Ministries of Forestry and of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Before that, Peter worked as a scientific advisor on marine protected areas and fisheries for The Nature Conservancy in Indonesia, supporting a fast-growing marine conservation program over the period 1998 - 2007. In this capacity, Peter gained broad experience on marine conservation in developing countries, and he provided technical supervision to marine conservation projects in Komodo, Raja Ampat, Wakatobi, and Derawan. Before moving to Indonesia, Peter worked as a fisheries researcher for Wageningen Agricultural University and the Netherlands Institute of Fisheries Research, where he also conducted his PhD research on the interaction between fish populations, fisheries and fish-eating birds. Peter worked as a lecturer at the International Agricultural Center in The Netherlands, and he conducted fisheries research on Lake Victoria in Tanzania. Download Peter's CV

 
Clients

WWF Indonesia, WWF USA, The Nature Conservancy Coral Triangle Center, the Walton Family Foundation, PT Putri Naga Komodo, Seven Seas dive and adventure cruises, USAID, Wyss Foundation, Texas Pacific Group, Pandiman Philippines Inc.,  Holman Fenwich Willan, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership