Gede Sugiartha, Alam Santi Director and Developments Consultant

Born in Bali, Gede is a certified environmental engineer with a diverse set of technical and community development skills.  Gede guides Alam Santi consultancies with technical support for projects’ environmental engineering components, while also ensuring culturally sensitive community facilitation and outreach for all projects. Gede is also an award winning documentary filmmaker and for larger Alam Santi development projects he provides insightful documentary development skills that help to bring the essence of projects’ vision to the public eye in a meaningful and memorable way.

Petra Schneider, Alam Santi Board of Directors and Design Consultant

Petra has been living in Indonesia for more than 20 years and once a Canadian; she is now an Indonesian citizen. Petra is an independent consultant and communications specialist, and one of the founders and developers of the a reputable non-profit organization IDEP Foundation that has been successfully delivering community programs in education, Permaculture, disaster risk reduction and relief throughout some of the most turbulent areas of the world.  After serving as the Executive Director of IDEP Foundation for more than a decade, Petra now acts as an advisor to IDEP while growing the Alam Santi consulting initiative.

Melissa Loh, Alam Santi Developments Consultant

Melissa’s background includes a blend of Asian and Western ethnicity. She has years of experience in strategic project and business planning for both international scale profit and non-profit initiatives. At Alam Santi, Melissa integrates her wide range of strategic project development skills into providing a sound and holistic social business model for consulting. Melissa brings a deep understanding from both investors' and the community’s perspective to all of the Alam Santi projects. She ensures that projects are founded on a solid balance of business acumen combined with professional and accountable sustainable development principles.