Associate Professor Gopalasamy Reuben Clements is a conservation scientist by training and a Research Fellow at the Jeffrey Sachs Center (JSC). He received his PhD in conservation science from James Cook University and obtained his MSc and BSc in biology from the National University of Singapore. Reuben’s research focuses on forest and biodiversity conservation and has published over 60 articles in international journals that include Nature, and his work has been featured in the BBC, New York Times and National Geographic. He also co-founded a local non-profit research organization known as Rimba, which conducts applied research on the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems in Peninsular Malaysia. Reuben’s team is currently collaborating with the Terengganu state government to manage 30,000 hectares of forests protected as a state park. He also collaborates with the Federal government on tiger and large carnivore monitoring, wildlife law enforcement and policy improvement, land use and conservation planning (using GIS and remote sensing), sustainable forest management and wildlife corridor design and management. Reuben’s current project at JSC aims to make more economic arguments for forest and biodiversity conservation through the development and implementation of novel biofinancing mechanisms.