Joni Jupesta was recently appointed as a science advisor at PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Tbk (SMART) in Jakarta, Indonesia, and, since 2013, has been a visiting research fellow at United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the project leader of “Low Carbon Urban Infrastructure Investment: Cases of China, Indonesia, and Japan” funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at United Nations University soon after finishing his PhD in management science and technology from Tohoku University in Japan. He has received several international awards, among others the Green Talent Award from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2012, the Mitra Award from the APN in 2013, and the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI) Seed Grant Award from Brown University in 2014.