Pham Thu Thuy received her PhD in Pro-poor Payments for Environmental Services (PES) from Charles Darwin University, Australia, and has been working in the fields of PES, REDD+, climate change and poverty reduction for over eight years in developing countries such as Vietnam. At CIFOR, her research has focused on political and institutional analysis of PES and REDD+ and the potential of these schemes to be pro-poor. Thuy collaborates with national and international agencies and universities as well as civil society groups to support the governments of developing countries in the design and implementation of these schemes.