Yus Rusila Noor has been working with Wetlands International Indonesia since 1987. He graduated from the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in 2001. Yus was educated as an Ornithologist specialising on water birds ecology and conservation and worked on the inventory of wetlands of international importance in Indonesia and on the conservation of endangered waterbirds. He currently supervises Resilience Projects at Wetlands International, including Building with Nature Indonesia.