Governance Team
Haigan Murray
Haigan co-founded the Coconut Knowledge Center in 2014, as an inter-disciplinary connector and change advocate...
Richard Etherington
Richard co-founded the Coconut Knowledge Center in 2014 and is currently responsible for global oversight of Kokonut Pacific Group...
Pradeepto Biswas
Connecting smallholder agricultural systems to de-centralised and centralised processing and manufacturing through to markets is both a skill and a passion for Pradeepto...
Sjaak de Klein
In 2024 Sjaak de Klein joined the executive team of the Coconut Knowledge Center. Sjaak has lived and worked in Southeast Asia for over 25 years and ...
Advisory Team
Dr Yohannes Samosir
Dr Samosir is a founding member of CKC and holds a number of senior professional positions within the palm industry, a published academic and leads CKC research...
Prabir Biswas
Teacher, mentor and career central banker with Reserve Bank of India, Prabir was instrumental in shaping policy and execution across three plus decades that ...
David Jonathan Lobo
David Lobo, is Chairman of the Deejay group and commenced research into Coconut Breeding in 1983, and today Deejay Farms is the largest Hybrid Coconut Breeding ...
Ardi Simpala
Ardi is currently the Chairman of Indonesia Friends of Coconut, working to increase public awareness around the importance of coconut...
Dr Dan Etherington
Dr Dan Etherington AM, is a founding member of CKC and has a legacy of contribution to coconut. His studies of the coconut industries in Asia, Africa & the South Pacific ...
Coconut Pioneers
Gordon F. De Silva
Currently managing director of joint venture Serendipol Pvt Ltd, with US-based Dr Bronner’s Magic Soaps to provide organic and fair-trade coconut oil for cosmetic manufacture...
Christian Eyde Moeller
From the ground-up Christian has led Lionheart Farms to establish a large-scale integrated coconut plantation and processing facility in Southern Palawan...
Darius Boshoff
A bioenergy specialist, Darius has deep expertise in waste to energy from technology to project development and implementation...
Daniel Casals
Daniel is an award-winning, impact-driven agribusiness entrepreneur who graduated in business from Babson College and Oxford University...
Curtis Pel
Curtis resides in Alberta, Canada, and entered the field of coconut innovation through his commitment to developing solutions for global challenges...
