Join us for a Valentine's special at the The British Club, on the 14th of February, to hear the incredible Tom Owen Edmunds talk about - "The Future of Indonesia's Forests".

Indonesia has the third largest tropical rainforest but has overtaken Brazil as the world’s fastest deforester. Tom will describe the work of the UK Climate Change Unit to support Indonesian government’s successful initiatives to address climate change and deforestation.

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About Tom Owen Edmunds

Tom Owen Edmunds is head of DFID Indonesia and runs the cross-departmental Climate Change Unit in the Embassy in Jakarta. Previously he was Head of DFID Lahore (in Pakistan); Head of the Political and Development Section in the British Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the last conflict; and Head of Conflict Policy in DFID in UK. Before joining DFID in 2001, he was Private Secretary to the Minister for Film, Broadcasting and Tourism in DCMS.

From 1983-1997, Tom was a freelance photographer. In 1994 he was described by the British Journal of Photography as ‘one of the world’s leading travel photographers’. He shot assignments in over 100 countries, published books on Bhutan and Mexico, and photographed the books that accompanied the BBC Great Journeys series, taking him round the world 14 times, over 24 episodes.

He sat on the Council of the Royal Geographical Society from 2003-6, and was elected one of the youngest ever Fellows of the Royal Photographic Society aged 24. He read Geography at Oxford, during which he competed in RGS/BBC Mick Bourke Awards making a short amateur film for BBC2 on the Okavango Swamps in Botswana.