Our Team

Ferth has spent most of his career undertaking research and policy advocacy, designing and spearheading projects, and establishing partnerships on a wide range of issues such as disaster management, peacebuilding, environmental action, and youth engagement. Prior to joining the Branch, he was the Project and Partnerships Manager of Yayasan Peta Bencana (Disaster Map Foundation), a Southeast Asia-based non-profit organization, where he was responsible for co-supervising the development and replication of social media-powered infrastructures for community-based disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation from Indonesia to the Philippines. He is currently serving as Vice Chairperson and Representative of Young People from Disaster-Stricken Sector at the United Nations Youth Advisory Board. Ferth has recently been named to the inaugural cohort of the McCain Institute's Global Leaders Program. He was also an Academic Fellow for the Global Environmental Issues and Natural Resource Management Program of the East-West Center as part of the U.S. State Department's Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative. He has worked with different academic and non-profit organizations such as the Asia Foundation, Humanitarian Open Street Map Team Philippines, and the Ateneo School of Government. He earned his Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Waseda University.