Linda is a Senior Research Fellow at APCEL and also an Associate Professor of Law in Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She received her doctorate in 2013 (honorary mentioned) from University of Washington School of Law, supported by the Fulbright PhD Presidential Program.  She focuses on international environmental law issues, such as climate change, REDD+, marine plastic pollution, land issues and customary (adat) issues. Linda was a member of the delegation leading Indonesia’s negotiations of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. From 2018 to 2023, Linda is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.

Linda has held visiting appointments at the Center for Asian Legal Exchange (CALE) in Nagoya University (2017), ISB-Agder University (2017), Asian Law Institute (ASLI) at NUS (2018), and APCEL NUS  (2019). Linda had presented her research globally, including at University of Agder (Norway, 2017), University of Nagoya (Japan, 2018), Korean Legal Institute (South Korea, 2018), Kathmandu University (Nepal, 2018), and the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, 2019).  She published in various journals (among others upcoming in Nature Communication Earth and Science in 2024, Asia-Pacific Environmental Law Journal /APJEL in 2023) and her newest edited book is entitled ‘Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific’, published by Brill in 2024.

At APCEL, Linda focuses on comparative climate change law and policy in ASEAN. This adds to the centre’s focus on climate change law and its plans to become the knowledge hub on climate law in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region.