Depi Susilawati is a Sessional Lecturer at Fenner School of Environment and Society. Depi's teaching and research focuses broadly on environment, forest and agriculture policy and governance in the Asia-Pacific.

In 2023, Depi was a Lecturer at the ANU Fenner School of Environmenta and Society, following a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). Her postdoctoral research examines the development and implementation of Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification scheme at upstream and downstream value chains. It also investigates smallholders’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary sustainable palm oil certification instruments. 

Before joining RegNet, she was PhD Scholar at Fenner School of Environment and Society, the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis investigates the architecture, implementation, and actors’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary sustainability and legality instruments in Indonesian wood value chains. In addition, she has teaching experience at the ANU as a tutor for the Managing Forested Landscape course and demonstrator for the Introduction to Environmental and Social Research course. Depi has also worked on several research and training projects for the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which collaborated with key international organisations, including MFP (UK-AID), SNV, RECOFTC, GIZ, AHT, and CIFOR-ICRAF.

Depi has contributed actively to Fenner School of Environment and Society by being an International Student Speaker at ANU Opening Day 2020, HDR International Student Representative 2017-2019, and organiser of PhD Induction & Mini Retreat 2018. Depi is also an active member of Forestry Australia, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Australia, and Alumni Association of Universitas Gadjah Mada (KAGAMA) Canberra.

Depi received the travel grant from IUFRO in 2022, ANU Vice-Chancellor's Student Leadership Award 2018, Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) Scholarship 2016-2020, FAO & RECOFTC Fellowship 2014-2015, Netherlands Fellowship Programme 2013, and StuNed Scholarship 2011-2013.

Areas of expertise

• Natural Resource Management
• Environment Policy
• Forestry Management And Environment

Research interests

• Forest policy and governance
• Environmental regulation and governance
• Transnational experimentalist regime
• Smart regulation
• Sustainable forest certification
• Timber legality verification
• Deforestation-free commodities supply chains
• Sustainable palm oil certification
• Forest and landscape restoration