Filiberto Pollisco, Jr.

Programme Specialist for Conservation Policy & Research, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

Dr. Pollisco, Jr. is the Programme Specialist for Conservation Policy & Research, Program Development and Implementation Unit of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity.

As such, he is a member of the Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Taxonomy Initiative of the Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD) and one of his main concerns is to organize and conduct training programmes in Southeast Asia on the Global Taxonomic Initiative of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity

In concurrent capacity, he is also Programme Coordinator of the ACB – German Cooperation Project on Institutional Strengthening of Biodiversity in ASEAN, Programme Coordinator of ASEAN – Japan partnership, and Programme Coordinator of ASEAN – Korea.

He acted as Technical Resource Person in several activities of the UN CBD and other global bodies such as in South-South Cooperation, Cities Biodiversity, Business & Biodiversity Initiative, Global Taxonomy Initiative, Mangrove and Coastal Resources Conservation

He facilitates and coordinates other programmes on Business & Biodiversity, Ecotourism and Protected Areas, ASEAN Heritage Parks Programme, Wetlands and Peatlands.

As a member of the Philippine Plant Conservation Committee of the DENR-Biodiversity Management Bureau, he is tasked with crafting policies in plant conservation at the national level, identifying and coming up with a RED list of threatened plants in the Philippines and crafting policies regarding plant invasive alien species.

He garnered his PhD in Forestry specializing on Biodiversity conservation and Ecotourism from UPLB in 2000, his MS in Forestry specializing in forest pathology and entomology, also in UPLB in 1986, and his BS Forestry degree in 1981 from UPLB.

He is affiliated to the Society for the Conservation of Philippine Wetlands, Forestry and Natural Resources Research Society of the Philippines, Inc., UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources Alumni Association and the Society of Filipino Foresters.