Ms Tiza Mafira

Tiza Mafira is a law and public policy expert specializing in climate change and the circular economy. She holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Laws from Universitas Indonesia. She has also won fellowships at Oxford and Yale. 

Since 2013, she is co-founder and Executive Director of the Plasticdiet Indonesia, which works with governments and communities to push for policies to prevent single use plastics to be replaced with reuse systems. Her work has proliferated plastic bag bans in 100+ cities across Indonesia, including Jakarta and Bali. She is part of the Public-Private Partnership to Reduce, Reuse, Replace Single-Use Packaging (PR3), a global organization focusing on designing standards that will allow reuse solutions to transform from small, disconnected ventures into massive, infrastructure wide systems. 

Awards: 

• UN Ocean Hero by United Nations Environment (2018) 

• Mental Revolution award from the Government of Indonesia (2019) 

•  Indika Energy Award for Environmentalism (2019) 

• Gen.T Award given to 400 future leaders of Asia (2020) 

• Women of The Year Award from Her World Indonesia (2021) 

• IDEAfest Award for Activism (2021) 

• Featured in two documentaries: Emmy Award Winning “The Story of Plastic” (2019), “Pulau Plastik” (2021). 

She also leads Climate Policy Initiative Indonesia, a non-profit think tank and advisory organization focused on public policy related to land use and energy transitions. Prior to this she worked for six years as a corporate attorney in Jakarta-based lawfirm, Makarim & Taira S., where she specialized in natural resources and forestry law. She has also worked at McKinsey & Co., the Boston-based environmental group CERES, and the Office of the Special Staff of the President for International Affairs during President Yudhoyono’s first term.