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Asia-Pacific assessment experts

The below table contains the experts information .

Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Chuan Liao Coordinating lead author Male Arizona State University China
Dr. Esmail Karamidehkordi Lead author Male Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Dr. Madhav Karki Chair Male Nepal Nepal
Dr. Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu Chair Female Ramsar Convention Secretariat Sri Lanka
Mr. Alexandros Gasparatos Coordinating lead author Male United Nations University Greece
Prof. Ryo Kohsaka Coordinating lead author Male Japan Japan
Mr. Kwai Hin Han Lead author Male Malaysia Malaysia
Dr. Kimihiko Hyakumura Lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Siti Isa Lead author Female Malaysia Malaysia
Mr. Paolo Magni Lead author Male EUROMARINE european consortium Italy
Prof. Lars Opgenoorth Lead author Male Germany Germany
Dr. Ram Pandit Lead author Male Nepal Nepal
Mr. Sadegh Sadeghi Zadegan Lead author Male Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Dr. Osamu Saito Lead author Male Japan Japan
Mr. Gautam Talukdar Lead author Male India India
Mr. Randolph Thaman Lead author Male Fiji Fiji
United States of America
Mr. Ram Prasad Chaudhary Review editor Male Nepal Nepal
Ms. Jane Glavan Review editor Female United Arab Emirates Canada
Ms. Felicia Lasmana Fellow Female Daemeter Consulting Indonesia
Dr. Kirsten Davies Coordinating lead author Female Australia Australia
Dr. Asha Rajvanshi Coordinating lead author Female India India
Prof. YOUN Yeo-Chang Coordinating lead author Male Republic of Korea Republic of Korea
Mr. Jae Chun Choe Lead author Male Republic of Korea Republic of Korea
Dr. Rosie Cooney Lead author Female International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Australia
Dr. Shalini Dhyani Lead author Female India India
Prof. Judith Fisher Lead author Female Australia Australia
Dr. Ambika Gautam Lead author Male IUCN Nepal Nepal
Mr. Dr Hishmi Husain Lead author Male Social Welfare Environment & Educational Society (SWEES) India
Ms. Kaoru Ichikawa Lead author Female United Nations University Japan
Dr. Mahdi Kolahi Lead author Male Environmental Monitoring Association of Iran Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Ms. Mirza Dikari Kusrini Lead author Female Indonesia Indonesia
Dr. Ather Masoodi Lead author Male India India
Ms. Yuko Onishi Lead author Female Japan Japan
Prof. Soojin Park Lead author Male Republic of Korea Republic of Korea
Dr. Harpinder Sandhu Lead author Male Australia Australia
Dr. Jyothis Sathyapalan Lead author Male India India
India
Mr. Chuluun Togtohyn Lead author Male Mongolia Mongolia
Mr. Mohd Shahwahid Haji Othman Review editor Male Malaysia Malaysia
Mr. Mostafa Panahi Review editor Male Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Dr. Amani Al Assaf Fellow Female University of Jordan Jordan
Ms. Faridah Hanum Binti Ibrahim Coordinating lead author Female Malaysia Malaysia
Mr. Gopal Rawat Coordinating lead author Male India India
Dr. Tetsukazu Yahara Coordinating lead author Male Japan Japan
Prof. Mounir Abi Said Lead author Male Lebanon Lebanon
Mr. Richard Corlett Lead author Male International Biogeography Society (IBS) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr. Franck Courchamp Lead author Male France France
Switzerland
Dr. Rong Dai Lead author Female China China
Mr. Hendrik Freitag Lead author Male Ateneo de Manila University Germany
Mr. Tri Haryoko Lead author Male Indonesia Indonesia
Prof. Chad Hewitt Lead author Male University of Waikato Australia
United States of America
Mr. Tanveer Hussain Lead author Male Virtual University of Pakistan Pakistan
Mr. Taku Kadoya Lead author Male Japan Japan
Prof. B. Mohan Kumar Lead author Male India India
Dr. Gopinathan Maheswaran Lead author Male Zoological Survey of India India
Mr. Tadashi Miyashita Lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Anil Mohapatra Lead author Male Zoological Survey of India India
Mr. Brett Murphy Lead author Male Australia Australia
Prof. Jeremy Piggott Lead author Male University of Otago Ireland
Dr. Chelladurai Raghunathan Lead author Male India India
Prof. Hemanthi Ranasinghe Lead author Female Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Dr. Ranbeer Rawal Lead author Male India India
Mr. Andrew Sheppard Lead author Male Australia Australia
Prof. Yoshihisa Shirayama Lead author Male Japan Japan
Mr. Yowhan Son Lead author Male Republic of Korea Republic of Korea
Ms. Noriko Takamura Lead author Female Japan Japan
Mr. San Thwin Lead author Male Myanmar Myanmar
Prof. 中静 透 Tohru Lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Takehisa Yamakita Lead author Male Japan Japan
Mr. Kazuhiko Takeuchi Review editor Male Japan Japan
Dr. Catherine Febria Fellow Female University of Canterbury Canada
Mr. Yousef Alhafedh Coordinating lead author Male Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
Dr. Anne-Gaelle Ausseil Coordinating lead author Female New Zealand France
New Zealand
Mr. Changyong Wang Coordinating lead author Male China China
Prof. Ning Wu Coordinating lead author Male International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) China
Prof. P. C. Abhilash Lead author Male India India
India
Prof. Jan Axmacher Lead author Male International Biogeography Society (IBS) Germany
Dr. Linda Broadhurst Lead author Female Australia Australia
Mr. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi Lead author Male India India
Mr. Joachim Claudet Lead author Male France France
Dr. Priyanka Kohli Lead author Female India India
Dr. Subramanian Kumarapuram Apadodharan Lead author Male Zoological Survey of India India
Prof. Hsing-Juh Lin Lead author Male International Science Council (ISC) China
Dr. Satoru Okubo Lead author Male Japan Japan
Mr. Ayumi Onuma Lead author Male Japan Japan
Prof. Josef Settele Lead author Male Germany Germany
Prof. Chris Turney Lead author Male International Science Council (ISC) Australia
Mr. Takakazu Yumoto Lead author Male Japan Japan
Prof. Eun Shik Kim Review editor Male Republic of Korea Republic of Korea
Mr. Weiguo Sang Review editor Male China China
Ms. Yuanyuan Zhang Fellow Female China China
Mr. Jonathan Anticamara Coordinating lead author Male Philippines Philippines
Prof. Haripriya Gundimeda Coordinating lead author Female India India
Dr. Shunsuke Managi Coordinating lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Philip Riordan Coordinating lead author Male The Wildlife Institute, Beijing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ireland
Dr. Ruchi Badola Lead author Female India India
Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta Lead author Male India India
Prof. Shizuka Hashimoto Lead author Male Japan Japan
Prof. Reiichiro Ishii Lead author Male Japan Japan
Ms. Suneetha Mazhenchery Subramanian Lead author Female United Nations University India
Mr. Nijavalli H. Ravindranath Lead author Male India India
Mr. Hiroya Yamano Lead author Male Japan Japan
Mr. Hiroyuki Matsuda Review editor Male Japan Japan
Prof. Yongyut Trisurat Review editor Male Thailand Thailand
Dr. Sonali Ghosh Fellow Female Wildlife Institute of India India
Dr. Lilibeth Acosta Coordinating lead author Female International Science Council (ISC) Philippines
Dr. Ritesh Kumar Coordinating lead author Male Ramsar Convention Secretariat India
Prof. Shyam Sharma Coordinating lead author Male India India
Mr. Amjad Virk Coordinating lead author Male Pakistan Pakistan
Prof. Tohru Ikeda Lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Ganesh Joshi Lead author Male Nepal Nepal
Dr. Md Saiful Karim Lead author Male Australia Australia
Bangladesh
Mr. Mitsutaku Makino Lead author Male Japan Japan
Prof. Noraini Mohd Tamin Lead author Female Malaysia Malaysia
Dr. Kimiko Okabe Lead author Female Japan Japan
Mr. Nicolas Pascal Lead author Male France France
Ms. Zara Phang Lead author Female Malaysia Malaysia
Mr. Lok Man Singh Palni Review editor Male India India
Mr. Mokhlesur Rahman Review editor Male Bangladesh Bangladesh
Mr. Yasuo Takahashi Fellow Male Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan
Mr. Asghar Mohammadi Fazel Bureau task force/expert group member Male Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Prof. Youngbae Suh Bureau task force/expert group member Male Republic of Korea
Mr. Mark Lonsdale MEP task force/expert group member Male Australia
Dr. Leng Guan Saw MEP task force/expert group member Male Malaysia
Prof. Yoshihisa Shirayama MEP task force/expert group member Male Japan
Dr. Aidin Niamir Fellow Male Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Germany