Virni Budi Arifanti is a senior researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency Republic of Indonesia (BRIN). Formerly she worked as a researcher at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Since 2022 Virni was appointed as Indonesia’s Focal Point for Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Ramsar Convention. In 2023 she has been appointed as a Technical Expert on the STRP of the Ramsar Convention for the 2023-2025 triennium. She specializes in tropical mangrove ecosystems, wetlands ecology, blue carbon, greenhouse gas inventory and climate change studies. She has a keen interest in carbon dynamics and nature-based solutions (NbS) of wetland ecosystems. She has been involved in several international research collaborations and published in various peer reviewed international journals. Virni holds a PhD in wetlands ecology from Oregon State University, USA. Her MSc was obtained from Ghent University, Belgium, in forest geospatial science.
