Marcus Colchester has 40 years experience working with forest peoples in the humid tropics. His expertise is in indigenous peoples, social and political ecology, standard setting, human rights, land tenure, policy reform and advocacy, FPIC, conflict resolution. He has worked intensively on the above in relation to logging, plantations, palm oil, extractive industries, dams, colonisation and protected areas. He has published numerous books and papers and carried out consultancies for a number of international organisations. His work has been recognised through the award of a Pew Conservation Fellowship, the Royal Anthropological Institute's Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology and election as a fellow of the Samdhana Institute.