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meet the team

Alam Santi is led by passionate experts with more than 60 years of combined experience in climate resilience, disaster risk reduction, education and curriculum design, capacity building and social entrepreneurship across the region.

Alam Santi was founded by Gede Sugiartha, a Balinese community development specialist, and Petra Schneider, a Canadian-born sustainability expert who became an Indonesian citizen decades ago. Our eclectic team bridges local and international perspectives, helping clients navigate climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and education challenges within the Indonesian context.

Over the decades, we've built a wide-ranging network of partners spanning climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and education to project and enterprise development specialists. This network connects you to the expertise needed for the most significant impact, from advisers to impact ventures and community and eco-strategy specialist groups, to global networks of trusted professional service firms. Grounded in Care for the People, Care for the Planet, Care for the Future, our team combines strategic thinking with hands-on practicality to deliver regenerative solutions — spanning DRR, curriculum design and participatory education — that build real capability and empower the next generation of leaders.

senior team

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Petra Schneider

Co-Founder & Senior Consultant

Petra is a climate resilience and education specialist with 30+ years of experience spanning curriculum and capacity building, behaviour change communications, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and sustainable development consulting.

Through www.AlamSantiDesign.com, Petra designs and delivers regenerative solutions for the polycrisis facing communities today — building consulting, training and gamified educational programs that turn complex issues like DRR, climate resilience and sustainable development into immersive learning experiences. Her work blends formal curriculum design with community-based, non-formal education to build real capability, not just awareness, and to empower the next generation of leaders. Petra has delivered more than 100 high-impact campaigns, curriculums and behaviour change strategies for clients from the UN through to SMEs in remote regions.

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Gede Sugiartha

Co-Founder & Senior Consultant
 

Gede has 20+ years experience in community development, media making and environmental engineering. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and an expert in media advocacy training. Over the years Gede has built and directed several national networks and teams and has strong leadership qualities. Gede is co-founder of Alam Santi as well as its sister organization IDEP Media. He has developed an extensive range of successful community development trainings and programs for Indonesian NGOs and CBOs. He is an expert in waste water systems, especially Waste Water Gardens®. He specializes in designing innovative programs for community-driven waste management systems and ecotourism networks.

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Nana Sohan

COO & Senior Consultant

 

With more than 10 years of experience in team building and management, business development, managing operations, budgetary allowance and allocations as well as business liaisons, Nana's presence greatly strengthens the Alam Santi team. Nana has experience working for various organisations including NGOs, startup companies and well-developed organisations. She finds joy in working with a team to build their capacity and working with communities to implement social impact projects. At Alam Santi, Nana oversees day-to-day operations and company administration, and keeps the team working smoothly together.

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Ade Andreawan

CPO & Senior Consultant

Ade has almost two decades of expertise and experience in community-centred development and disaster management. He specialises in capacity building and empowering key stakeholders in ensuring effective and sustainable solutions. Over the years, Ade has overseen and facilitated more than 100 community empowerment programs including nationwide events and consultancies for diverse actors from community groups through to senior government officials. Ade is a master at program oversight and facilitation and has built networks for community resilience solutions spanning the archipelago.

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Dayu Santi

CAO

Dayu has worked at Alam Santi since 2011. She is an outstanding organiser, ensuring that projects run smoothly from start to finish. Alam Santi has also given her the chance to learn a great deal beyond her core administration and accounting role, including regenerative design and community organization. She remains as committed to Alam Santi's work today as when she started, and continues to develop her skills in both administration and in building sustainable futures.

core team

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Doni

Doni is one of our researchers and project strategists. He is super passionate about climate adaptation and how our clients' projects can help.

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Shirley

Shirley is a writer, editor, and translator, as well as a lifelong learner passionate about exploring Indonesia. 

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Toby

Toby is our SEO specialist. He is passionate about delivering the strongest impact for our clients' campaigns, brands and projects.

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Bobby

Bobby is one of our talented community outreach officers. He helps our team deliver innovative, sustainable and culturally-sensitive solutions for our clients.

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Eira

Eira is our super talented communications officer; she keeps all our relationships smooth, on track and full of creativity & smiles.

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Benjoe

Benjoe is one of our super talented media designers, photographers and filmmakers, as well as an amazing social media strategist.

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Putri

Putri is our researcher and admin officer. She can source anything, and she ensures that our projects are being resourced as effectively as possible.

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Oka

Oka is our talented drafter. He is a trained architect who is passionate about eco-development and delivers solid design plans for our projects.

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Nyoman

Nyoman is one of our eco-tech specialist trainers and an awesome capacity builder. He is passionate about all things eco.

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Dewi

Dewi is one of our outreach specialists. She brings life to every project she works on, with an extraordinary ability to bridge local and international perspectives.

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Rama

Rama is one of our outreach officers. He is deeply passionate about bridging cultural perspectives across varied project stakeholders.

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Ketut Oka

Ketut has been our finance manager for over 20 years! She is a whizz at all things accountability and ensures budgets are always on track.

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Santi S.

Santi is a filmmaker & photographer extraordinaire who brings project stories to life with an incomparable artistic and storytelling flair.

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Dewik

Dewik loves supporting sustainable projects through thoughtful administration, financial organization, and attention to detail.

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Gusten

Gusten is our development project manager. He delivers top-quality results on community-sensitive eco-tech and sustainability solutions.

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Anom

Anom is an incredibly creative visual artist. He helps us turn our education and outreach tools into dynamic, informative, and accessible materials.

partner consultants and advisors

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Jean-François Chénier

Product strategy consultant

Jean-François brings more than 30 years of international experience in product strategy, digital innovation and media across agriculture, transportation, education and financial services. As Chief Product Officer at AgUnity, he led the development of its digital products and a platform for Fairtrade that supports programs reaching millions of farmers worldwide. His background as a writer, director and producer—including work in 360° and cinematic VR—gives him a distinctive perspective on how technology, storytelling and learning can work together. He advises EcoGames on product and content strategy as it expands its physical, digital and immersive learning experiences. Jean-François holds an MBA and a BA from McGill University.

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Carly Gayle

Writer and Sustainable Design Consultant

For more than a decade, Carly has worked as a writer for environmental nonprofits and a consultant on sustainability design for buildings, landscapes, and media projects. After graduating from Wellesley College in 2013, she has been involved in sustainability-related projects in Madagascar, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and throughout the USA. Her areas of expertise include solidarity economics, intentional communities, foraging, writing of all kinds, and figuring out a game plan for innovative projects with no roadmap. She is currently a graduate student in Global Sustainability Policy and Management at Brandeis University in the USA.

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Olivier Gaucher

Water System Specialist

Olivier has been involved in designing and implementing sustainable water and sanitation systems for over 20 years. Both in Africa and in Asia, he has worked with multiple NGOs and other international organisations to develop community managed water systems with sustainability as the key driver. His work promotes environmentally responsible designs, from rainwater catchment solution to solar powered pumps and gravity systems. He also organises trainings to enable users to operate and maintain their water systems to best steward this precious resource.

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Melissa Loh

Startup & SME Consultant & Cryptocurrency Advocate

After obtaining a degree from USC's top-rated business and entrepreneurship program, Melissa accumulated more than a decade of international, hands-on experience in leading- edge entrepreneurship, social enterprise development and SME consulting. She is a strong advocate of cryptocurrency, fintech literacy for the masses and the utilization of tech for good. She believes that business, when combined with mindful leadership, is one of the fastest vehicles for positive change in the world and that technology is a core building block for the change we want to see. Mel thrives working alongside change-making visionaries, designers and developers to bridge worlds and build the future.

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Ng Kok Hong

Aquatic Scientist & Designer

Ng has been practicing eco-friendly waterbody management, with zero use of chemicals for 30 years. He has in-depth knowledge of the aquatic world and applies his technical expertise and artistic flair to design and manage water systems. Ng’s systems are biological solutions that use natural bacteria, fish and plants to purify pools, ponds and lakes. He played a pivotal role in designing the biological swimming pool at one of Alam Santi’s flagship projects, the Taman Petanu Eco Neighbourhood.

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