Yusman Syaukat (Yusman) finished his bachelor degree in Agriculture majoring in Agribusiness from Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Institute of Agriculture) in 1986. He then continued to his Masters at the University of New England, Australia (1991) and received his doctoral from University of Guelph, Canada (2000) majoring on agricultural and resource economics. From 1995-2000 he serves as graduate teaching assistant and graduate research assistant to Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph and awarded a dissertation research award (1998) from Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA – Singapore). He currently works as lecturer at Department of Resource and Environmental Economics Faculty of Economics and Management, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).