Roselyn Fosuah Adjei
Roselyn Fosuah Adjei is a Distinguished Humphrey Fellow of the U.S. Department of State and a highly accomplished REDD+, Forest Governance and Climate Policy Expert. She has over 19 years of experience in REDD+ and is a well-known voice in Africa and globally. She was Ghana’s National REDD+ Focal Point and the first Director for Climate Change at the Forestry Commission for 7 years. She also held a brief position as Director for the Forestry Commission Training Center, as the first woman in that capacity.
Roselyn, a pioneering member of Ghana’s REDD+ Team, led the Team to mobilize climate finance from multiple sources including the World Bank, Green Climate Fund and also through the Voluntary Carbon Market, to advance ambitious Jurisdictional REDD+ implementation, that had local communities at its core.
Her leadership has led her to speak on various platforms, advancing the need for fit for purpose carbon prices, recognition of the rights of Indigenous People and Local Communities and building robust and inclusive governance structures that foster trust for sustainable action, to reduce deforestation and forest degradation for both economic and social purposes.
She has served as a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Environment, the London School of Economics and the University of Ghana. Roselyn has been a Board member of the UN-REDD Executive Board, representing the Africa Constituency. She has been instrumental in the progress of the Government-to-Government Forest and Agriculture Commodity Trade Dialogue (FACT) and other international processes, such as the Forest & Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP).
Roselyn holds a Master’s Degree in Carbon Management from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Resources Management from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, in Migration and Climate Change.
She is currently working in a consulting capacity, as Senior Advisor, to the Environmental Defense Fund, Forests Team.

Board of Directors
The Advisory Board oversees ART’s implementation in accordance with the evolving UNFCCC processes and guarantees good governance, transparent rules, and processes that assure quality and adequate safeguards. ART Advisory Board members have all agreed to the ART Board Charter and the ART Ethical Standard. Advisory Board members serve in their personal capacities, not as representatives of their organizations or of particular stakeholder groups.
ART Advisory Board Meeting Minutes are available to the public.
Secretariat
The ART Secretariat, hosted by Winrock International, is responsible for the operation of the ART program, including the development of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) and overseeing the registration, verification and issuance of Board-approved TREES Credits on the ART registry.
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