Kirana Agustina

Ocean & Plastic Waste Manager, WRI Indonesia at World Resources Institute

Kirana works as an Engagement Specialist for National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) where she is part of a global team and the Partnership in the implementation of the GPAP strategic plan to support the Indonesian government in achieving their target to reduce 70% of ocean plastic pollution by 2025. Particularly on leading the policy related analysis and stakeholder engagement with the broad community of government, corporate and nongovernmental organizations as well as colleagues across WRI and the World Economic Forum.

Before her postgraduate study, she was doing a United Nations-Nippon Fellowship program in 2018 at Division Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea (DOALOS) in New York City and continued with advance-research on ocean governance at Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) in Wollongong University, Australia. Also, she worked for nearly 3 years at a multilateral organization named Regional Secretariat of Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security in Indonesia, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries as a consultant assistant under work unit Coastal Community Development Project (CCDP/IFAD) for alternative sustainable livelihood, and Friends of the National Parks Foundation, a local conservation NGO focused on conservation and community development.