Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor

Mr. Siakor has a MA in Development Studies and has campaigned on forest governance and law enforcement in Liberia since 2000. He was awarded the Whitley Award for Environment and Human Rights in 2002 by the Whitley Foundation in the UK, the Goldman Environmental Prize for outstanding environmental achievements in Africa in 2006 by the Goldman Prize in US, was among Times’ Heroes of the Environment in 2008, and received the Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism from the Alexander Soros Foundation in 2012.

He became the face of a Liberian campaign against the Liberian timber trade during the regime of Charles Taylor until sanctions was imposed by the UN Security Council in 2003. He was exiled briefly, returned after Taylor left Liberia and founded the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) in Liberia, and served as its first Director from 2005 to 2009. He was actively involved in Liberia’s forest sector reform process and in 2010 published ‘Liberia: The Promise Betrayed’, the first comprehensive civil society assessment of forest sector reform.

Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor will attend Parallel B2 Demand side policies in consumer countries