**About the Editors**

### **Mi Sun Park**

Associate Professor in the field of international forest policy from Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea. She studied forest science (bachelor degree) and environmental education (master degree) at the Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. She acheived a PhD in forest policy at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Her research interests include governance/regime discourse and ¨ communication, policy strategies and instruments, policy integration and international cooperation in forest policy. She works at the global academic society. As a Coordinating Lead Autor, she participated in writing the chapter on policy options of the thematic assessment, "Sustainable Use of Wild Species" from IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) from 2018 to 2022. She works as a coordinator of Research Group 9.03.04 Traditional Forest Knowledge and a deputy coordinator of Working Party 9.01.07 Forests and the Media from IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) since 2019. She also works as a board member of the International Journal of Forest Research (Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1341-6979) and as an editor of the Trees, Forests and People (Elsevier, ISSN 2666-7193).

### **Himlal Baral**

Dr Himlal Baral is a Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) Scientist with CIFOR-ICRAF's Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development team. Based in Bali, Indonesia, Dr Baral coordinates CIFOR's work on FLR, planted forests and bioenergy in Asia and the Pacific, specifically, (i) promoting FLR for multiple ecosystem goods and services (EGS), (ii) quantifying and valuing EGS under different landscape management scenarios; (iii) investigating and developing locally appropriate landscape restoration models; and (iv) contributing to land-resource planning for food, biomaterials, and energy security. Prior to joining CIFOR, he worked in the forestry and natural resources management field for over 25 years in both the private and public sectors in Asia and the Pacific. Dr Baral has achieved a PhD in Land and Environment and two Master degrees: in Forest Science and in Social Science.
