Lalisa Duguma is a scientist at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. His main research areas cover drivers of deforestation, REDD+, community-forest interfaces, sustainable forest management, trade-offs and synergy between climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in the land use sector and strategies for achieving sustainable multifunctional landscapes. He has published numerous scientific articles on the above-mentioned research areas. He holds a doctoral degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Natural Resources Vienna, Austria.