Sithisakdi Apichatthanapath

Sithisakdi Apichatthanapath (“Seng”) is the Deputy Regional Manager for Asia at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), based in Bangkok, Thailand. There, he is responsible for managing USTDA’s activities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, directing business development efforts, coordinating with relevant Asian and U.S. government agencies, and marketing USTDA services to potential partners throughout the region.

Ilona Millar

Ms. Ilona Millar is a special counsel in the Environmental Markets team at Baker McKenzie, Sydney. She is an environmental and projects lawyer with a diverse range of experience in domestic and international climate change law and finance, carbon markets, environmental law and policy. She joined the firm in 2008 from the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, and International Institute for Environment and Development, in London.

An International Overview of Innovative Financing Instruments for Ecosystem Management, and Implications for the People's Republic of China

Michael Bennett, Forest Trends senior researcher, outlined some of the major types of innovative approaches for conservation finance globally, and highlighted some of the main trends in the developments of these approaches. In the presentation, Bennett discussed the position of the People’s Republic of China within international trends, as well as what types of instruments would be of most value for the country’s evolving eco-compensation policy framework.