Simon Badcock
Simon Badcock is currently managing director of Conservation International's global restoration portfolio, which aims to plant 100 million trees across 20 projects on six continents.
Badcock led Conservation International's efforts to improve project management and delivery with a focus on designing and facilitating training and capacity building programs. For two years, Badcock was part of Conservation International's Lui-Walton fellows program, serving as a landscape and seascape advisor to the Asia-Pacific field division.
Badcock began his career with Conservation International as the chief of party on the first Sustainable Landscapes Partnership (SLP) located in North Sumatra and West Papua, Indonesia. SLP was a public-private partnership designed to invest in replicable low-carbon business models that reduce pressure on forests, support economic growth, improve livelihoods and expand community income-earning opportunities in Indonesia.
Some of Badcock's previous accomplishments include leading the USAID-funded project AMARTA Sulawesi Kakoa Alliance, in which he managed a training program for more than 24,500 smallholder cocoa farmers across Sulawesi and Bali — as well as consulting on the implications of reforms to the forestry sector in South Sumatra for protected area management, Indigenous communities, pulp and paper operations, illegal logging and local governance.
Prior to his work at Conservation International, Badcock served as an assistant director for Australia’s department of education in Adelaide, an agricultural advisor in Indonesia, and a business development officer in Indonesia, among other positions. He earned a joint bachelor’s degree with honors in geographical/environmental studies and politics from the University of Adelaide. Simon has also co-published research articles focused on agriculture and forewstry in the Asia-Pacific region.