Sri Lestari is a Project Manager/Consultant at South Pole Group (SPG), a global provider of climate change and sustainability solutions. In the past few years, she has been involved in a variety of projects related to sustainability and natural resources management. As part of SPG, she currently serves as a contact point for a forestry project funded by USAID in Indonesia where she manages a team of experts to run the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) component the project. In addition, she is also involved in a regional research on renewable energy investment in Southeast Asia and is also taking part in an advisory project assisting a private company in the Middle East and North Africa to access funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to leverage and de-risk the company's renewable energy investment pipeline. Previously at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, she worked in policy research in the field of collaboration among government agencies using the case in the forestry sector in the US and India. Lestari holds a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Indonesia.