Celina is UNDP's Senior Regional Technical Advisor and Stakeholder Engagement Specialist for Climate and Forests in the Asia-Pacific region. She is also the region’s Carbon Markets focal point. Celina brings over 25 years of experience in the forest and land use sector, more recently through her work with national REDD+ and the Nationally Determined Contributions and their contributions towards the Sustainable Development Goals. She supports developing countries to strengthen enabling conditions to implement REDD+ in their NDCs in ways that are socially inclusive and gender responsive. Her background also includes safeguards, forest governance, grievance redress, mediation, community forestry, forest certification and timber legality schemes, and close collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and civil societies.