Dr. Maricel T. Villamayor is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños. She handles undergraduate courses on principles and concepts of social forestry, program planning, gender analysis and planning, and research methods in forestry and natural resources, among others. She also teaches a graduate course on governance framework in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Dr. Villamayor has an extensive experience in managing and implementing research and extension projects, and writing reports, policy briefs, feature articles and process documentations. She has been involved in 13 research and extension projects since she joined the university in 2009. Overall, she has published (as main/co-author) 15 journal articles, 9 chapters in a book, 4 policy briefs, and contributed to the publication of 3 books. She is also currently a member of the UPLB Research Ethics Board. Her research involvements include climate change adaptation, watershed management, and community-based natural resources management, and participatory climate risk and vulnerability assessments. Her strength includes designing and implementing methods that encourage local stakeholders’ participation in crafting climate change action plans of local governments or watershed management plans. She was also a member of the team that extended technical assistance to the province of Aurora and its eight municipalities in formulating their Climate Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) and Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP), as well as the team that prepared the management plan of five river basins in the Philippines. Dr. Villamayor has a BS degree in Development Communication, MS degree in Forestry major in Social Forestry, and PhD degree in Environmental Science (with a cognate in Forest Resources Management), all from University of the Philippines Los Baños.