Talk
Create a Climate: A Danish-Indonesian Dialogue on Creativity, Sustainability, and Green Future
This dialogue brings together Indonesian and Danish experts on design, sustainability, and public policy to explore the ways the community can navigate a more environmentally conscious and responsible, circular lifestyle.
05.03.2026
About the Speaker
Gita Syahrani is a prominent advocate and convener for collective action on sustainability themes with experience in the public and private sectors, civil society, and movement-building. She heads the Executive Board of the Earth-Centered Economic Coalition (Koalisi Ekonomi Membumi).
Gita is trained as a corporate lawyer with a proven history of driving impactful, sustainable initiatives through public policy and collective action. Senior roles at organizations such as Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL) and the World Resources Institute saw her shaping strategic partnerships and designing collective climate action. From 2012–2015, Gita worked to design, negotiate, and finalize Indonesia’s planning and funding documents in accordance with its national REDD+ strategy. REDD, which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, is a framework that was established as part of the Paris Agreement.
Gita has an LLB in international and environmental law from the University of Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia; an LLM in climate change and energy law and policy, with distinction, from the Center of Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom; and an executive master’s in systems thinking and sustainable development from the MIT Sloan School of Management, IDEAS (Innovative Dynamic Education and Action for Sustainability) Asia Pacific.
About the Speaker
Robbi Zidna Ilman is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at MYCL, a biotech startup which produces high-performance and low-impact bio material for fashion and building applications.
His background as a graduate from the School of Architecture, Institut Teknologi Bandung, shapes his passion in sustainable material research. With his friends, Robbi founded Growbox, a startup company that provides a do-it-yourself mushroom growing kit in 2012. Growbox pivoted and transformed into MYCL in 2015, aimed to serve the global market.
MYCL is a biotechnology company working on sustainable materials made from natural resources, such as mycelium and seaweed, for the building and fashion industries. With over 15 years of experience in biomaterials and the creative industries, MYCL bridges scientific innovation with market-driven design.
