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Americas assessment experts

The below table contains the experts information .

Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Jessica Dempsey Lead author Female Canada Canada
Mr. Jake Rice Chair - CLA Male Canada Canada
Ms. María Elena Zaccagnini Chair - CLA Female Argentina Argentina
Dr. Vanesa Rodriguez Osuna Coordinating lead author Female Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Germany
Dr. Elena Bennett Lead author Female FutureEarth United States of America
Dr. Dayne Buddo Lead author Male The University of the West Indies Jamaica
Dr. Kelly Garbach Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Nathan Vogt Lead author Male Indiana University United States of America
Prof. Patricia Balvanera Review editor Female Mexico Mexico
Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo Review editor Male Mexico Mexico
United States of America
Ms. Cristiana Simao Seixas Chair - CLA Female Brazil Brazil
Dr. Maria Fennessy Coordinating lead author Female Ramsar Convention Secretariat United States of America
Dr. Bernal Herrera-Fernández Coordinating lead author Male Costa Rica Costa Rica
Dr. Olga Barbosa Lead author Female Chile Chile
Mr. Richard Cole Lead author Male Ramsar Convention Secretariat United States of America
Dr. Rahanna Juman Lead author Female Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Dr. Laura Lopez-Hoffman Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Mónica Moraes R. Lead author Female Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Mr. Gerhard Overbeck Lead author Male Brazil Germany
Ms. Wendy Rae Townsend Lead author Female Bolivia (Plurinational State of) United States of America
Dr. Brenda Parlee Review editor Female Canada Canada
Prof. Jeannine Cavender Bares Coordinating lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Ms. Mary T. Kalin De Arroyo Coordinating lead author Female Chile New Zealand
Ms. Robin Abell Lead author Female United States of America
Dr. David Ackerly Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Mr. Daniel Ackerman Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Mr. Matías Arim Lead author Male Uruguay Uruguay
Mr. Francisco Javier Castañeda Moya Lead author Male Guatemala Guatemala
Dr. Laura Dee Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Natalia Estrada Carmona Lead author Female Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia
Ms. Judith Gobin Lead author Female Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Prof. Forest Isbell Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Mr. Gunther Köhler Lead author Male Germany Germany
Dr. Marten Koops Lead author Male Canada Canada
Dr. Nathan Kraft Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Dr. Nicholas Macfarlane Lead author Male Canada Canada
Mr. Arturo Mora Lead author Male Ecuador Ecuador
Dr. Michael Oatham Lead author Male Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Australia
Mr. Adriano Paglia Lead author Male Brazil Brazil
Dr. Pablo Luis Peri Lead author Male Argentina Argentina
Dr. Gervasio Piñeiro Lead author Male Uruguay Uruguay
Argentina
Mr. Robert Randall Lead author Male Canada Canada
Dr. Judith Weis Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Alexis Cerezo Review editor Male Guatemala
Ms. Jayne Belnap Liaison expert Female United States of America United States of America
Prof. Cristina Martínez-Garza Liaison expert Female Mexico Mexico
Prof. Jean Paul Metzger Liaison expert Male Brazil Brazil
France
Prof. Mercedes Bustamante Coordinating lead author Female Brazil Brazil
Ms. Eileen Helmer Coordinating lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Steven Schill Coordinating lead author Male The Nature Conservancy United States of America
Ms. Jayne Belnap Lead author Female United States of America
Dr. Laura Brown Lead author Female Canada Canada
Mr. Ernesto Brugnoli Lead author Male Uruguay Uruguay
Ms. Jana Compton Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Mr. Richard Coupe Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Dr. Marcello Hernández-Blanco Lead author Male Costa Rica Costa Rica
Prof. Julie Lockwood Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Mr. Juan Pablo Lozoya Azcárate Lead author Male Uruguay Uruguay
Spain
Dr. A. Mcguire Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Dr. Anibal Pauchard Lead author Male Chile Chile
Mr. Ramon de La Concepcion Pichs Madruga Lead author Male Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Cuba
Mr. Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues Lead author Male Brazil Brazil
Mr. Gerardo Arturo Sanchez Azofeifa Lead author Male Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) Costa Rica
Mr. Álvaro Soutullo Lead author Male Uruguay Uruguay
Mr. Avelino Suarez Rodriguez Lead author Male Centre for World Economy Studies (CIEM) Cuba
Cuba
Elizabeth Troutt Lead author Female Canada Canada
United States of America
Mr. Pedro Laterra Review editor Male Argentina Argentina
Mr. Jaime Ricardo Garcia Marquez Coordinating lead author Male Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Colombia
Dr. Brian Klatt Coordinating lead author Male Ecological Society of America United States of America
Mr. Jean Pierre Ometto Coordinating lead author Male Brazil Brazil
Ms. Sandra Verónica Acebey Quiroga Lead author Female Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Prof. John Agard Lead author Male Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Mrs. Maria Baptiste Lead author Female Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia
Ms. Mariela Veronica Blanco Lead author Female Argentina Argentina
Dr. Tatiana Maria GADDA Lead author Female Brazil Brazil
Ms. Maria Claudia Guezala Villavicencio Lead author Female Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) Peru
Dr. Matías Mastrangelo Lead author Male Argentina Argentina
Dr. Walter Pengue Lead author Male Argentina Argentina
Ms. Sara Wilson Lead author Female Canada Canada
Ana Carnaval Review editor Female
Mr. Peter Kareiva Review editor Male United States of America United States of America
Ms. Sandra Verónica Acebey Quiroga Liaison expert Female Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Mr. Wilson Ramirez Hernandez Liaison expert Male Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia
Dr. Antonio Diaz-de-Leon Coordinating lead author Male Mexico Mexico
Mexico
Ms. Keisha Garcia Coordinating lead author Female Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Prof. Fabio Scarano Coordinating lead author Male Brazil Brazil
Mr. Cristóbal Félix Diaz Morejón Lead author Male Cuba Cuba
Mr. Octavio Perez Maqueo Lead author Male Mexico Mexico
Mr. Helder Lima Queiroz Lead author Male Brazil Brazil
Dr. Vanesa Rodriguez Osuna Lead author Female Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Germany
Dr. Marina Rosales Benites De Franco Lead author Female Peru Peru
Mrs. Dalia Maria Salabarria Fernandez Lead author Female Cuba Cuba
Ms. Luciana Silvestri Lead author Female Argentina Argentina
Italy
Mr. Ederson Augusto Zanetti Lead author Male Global Conservation Standard Brazil
Prof. Gustavo Fonseca Review editor Male Brazil Brazil
Ms. Laura Nahuelhual Review editor Female Chile Chile
Mr. Diego Pacheco Balanza Bureau task force/expert group member Male Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Mr. Spencer Thomas Bureau task force/expert group member Male Grenada
Ms. Brigitte Baptiste MEP task force/expert group member Colombia
Spain
Dr. Floyd Homer MEP task force/expert group member Male Trinidad and Tobago
Prof. Carlos Alfredo Joly MEP task force/expert group member Male Brazil
Dr. Rodrigo Antonio Medellín MEP task force/expert group member Male Mexico
María Paula Barral Fellow Female Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) Argentina
Spain
Dr. Julio Diaz-Jose Fellow Male INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO SUPERIOR DE ZONGOLICA Mexico
Dr. Rodolfo Jaffe Ribbi Fellow Male University of São Paulo Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Brazil
Ms. Juliana Sampaio Farinaci Fellow Female Earth System Science Center/ Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (CST/INPE) Brazil
Ms. Laura Thompson Fellow Female U.S. Geological Survey, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center United States of America
Dr. Mireia Valle Fellow Female Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí Spain