Executive Director, Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre
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Dzaeman Dzulkifli, is the Executive Director of Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre (TRCRC) and a member of Landskap Malaysia’s (sister organisation to TRCRC) alternate board of governors since 2012. His involvement in TRCRC started from the development stages when the need to form a national seed bank was first tabled.
As Executive Director, Dzaeman is responsible for the setting up of a nationwide network of living collections for Malaysia’s endangered plant species i.e. from collecting seeds of endangered trees to supporting intergovernmental collaborations and developing strategies towards achieving Malaysia's global environmental commitments. Currently, he is developing a range of new sustainable land-use management strategies via TRCRC’s "Forest, the New Economy ” programme in efforts to realise the global goals of utilising degraded lands to mitigate climate change, working directly with state governments, land owners, technology partners and a range of industries in order to achieve this.
Dzaeman received his B.Sc. in Zoology from Queen Mary University of London, M.Sc. in Ecology and PhD. in Rainforest Restoration from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland. During his doctoral research, he worked closely with members of the public, cooperating in their corporate social responsibility programmes via a scientific volunteering programme run by Earthwatch Institute.