Invasive alien species experts

Co-chairs, Aníbal Pauchard, Helen Roy, and Peter Stoett are leading the assessment team, which consists of more than 80 experts from more than 40 countries encompassing all UN regions and a variety of expertise. This team was carefully selected by the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) and Bureau.

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Experts

Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Rizwan Irshad	MEP task force/expert group member		Pakistán (el)	Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Climate Change, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

Chapter 1. Setting the scene
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Anibal Pauchard	Chair	Chile	Chile	University of Concepción	0000-0003-1284-3163
Helen Roy	Chair	Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	0000-0001-6050-679X
Peter Stoett	Chair	Canadá (el)	Canadá (el)	University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Piero Genovesi	Review editor	Switzerland	Italia	IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group	0000-0002-0262-1420
John Wilson	Review editor	South Africa	Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	South African National Biodiversity Institute	0000-0003-0174-3239
Tatsiana Lipinskaya	Fellow	Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus	Belarús	Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Joana Vicente	Fellow	Portugal	Portugal	BIOPOLIS - CIBIO / InBIO	0000-0003-0382-0189

Chapter 2. Synthesis of past and future trends in the spread, pathways, evolutionary change and distribution of invasive alien species
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Laura Meyerson	Coordinating lead author	Estados Unidos de América (los)	Estados Unidos de América (los)	University of Rhode Island	ORCID: orcid.org/00
Sebataolo Rahlao	Coordinating lead author	Sudáfrica	Lesotho	Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, South Africa
Hanno Seebens	Coordinating lead author	Alemania	Alemania	Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Franck Courchamp	Lead author	Francia	Francia Suiza	CNRS
Emre Keskin	Lead author	Turquía	Turquía	Ankara University	0000-0002-7279-313X
Petr Pysek	Lead author	Chequia	Chequia	Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences
Alifereti Tawake	Lead author	Fiji	Fiji	Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network International Trust
Elena Tricarico	Lead author	Italy	Italia	Department of Biology, University of Florence, Italy	0000-0002-7392-0794
Cang Hui	Review editor	Stellenbosch University	China Sudáfrica	Stellenbosch University	0000-0002-3660-8160
Victoria Werenkraut	Review editor	Argentina	Argentina (la)	INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET
Bernd Lenzner	Fellow	University of Vienna	Alemania	Bioinvasions, Global Change Macroecology Group, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna	0000-0002-2616-3479
Hanieh Saeedi	Fellow	Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center	Irán (República Islámica del)	Goethe University Frankfurt and Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany

Chapter 3. Direct and indirect drivers responsible for, inter alia, the introduction, spread, abundance and dynamics of invasive alien species
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Philip Hulme	Coordinating lead author	Nueva Zelandia	Nueva Zelandia Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	Lincoln University	0000-0001-5712-0474
Tohru Ikeda	Coordinating lead author	Japón (el)	Japón (el)	Hokkaido University
Vigdis Vandvik	Coordinating lead author	Noruega	Noruega	University of Bergen	0000-0003-4651-4798
Ryan Blanchard	Lead author	Sudáfrica	Sudáfrica	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Morelia Camacho-Cervantes	Lead author	México	México	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	0000-0002-7123-7924
Ileana Herrera	Lead author	Ecuador	Venezuela (República Bolivariana de)	Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondón-Ecuador	0000-0002-7201-7085
Asuka Koyama	Lead author	Japón (el)	Japón (el)	Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Carolina Morales	Lead author	Argentina (la)	Argentina (la)	INIBIOMA (CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue)	0000-0002-9989-5347
Linus Munishi	Lead author	República Unida de Tanzanía (la)	República Unida de Tanzanía (la)	The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania
Nirmalie Pallewatta	Lead author	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	University of Colombo
Jan Pergl	Lead author	Chequia	Chequia	Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences	0000-0002-0045-1974
Anthony Ricciardi	Lead author	Canadá (el)	Canadá (el)	McGill University
Franz Essl	Review editor	Austria	Austria
Aveliina Helm	Review editor	Estonia	Estonia	University of Tartu	0000-0003-2338-4564
Esra Per	Fellow	Turquía	Turquía	Gazi University	0000-0002-7764-1215
Rafael Xavier	Fellow	Brasil (el)	Brasil (el)	Universidade de São Paulo

Chapter 4. Environmental, economic and social impact of invasive alien species
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Sven Bacher	Coordinating lead author	Suiza	Suiza Alemania	University of Fribourg	0000-0001-5147-7165
Bella Galil	Coordinating lead author	Israel	Israel	Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University
Martin Nuñez	Coordinating lead author	Argentina (la)	Argentina (la)	Universidad Nacional del Comahue/CONICET - University of Houston	0000-0003-0324-5479
Michael Ansong	Lead author	Ghana	Ghana	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Phill Cassey	Lead author	Australia	Nueva Zelandia	University of Adelaide	0000-0002-2626-0172
Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz	Lead author	Alemania	Alemania Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
Georgi Fayvush	Lead author	Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia	Armenia	Institute of Botany of NAS of Armenia
Ankila Hiremath	Lead author	Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)	India (la)	Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
IKEGAMI Makihiko	Lead author	Japan		National Institute for Environmental Studies	0000-0002-7760-7973
Angeliki- Kelly Martinou	Lead author	Chipre	Chipre Grecia	Laboratory of Vector Ecology and Applied Entomology/Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus, Enalia Physis, Cyprus Institute
Shana McDermott	Lead author	Estados Unidos de América (los)	Estados Unidos de América (los)	Trinity University
Cristina Preda	Lead author	Chequia	Rumania	Ovidius University of Constanta
Montserrat Vila	Lead author	España	España	Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
Olaf Weyl	Lead author	South Africa	Sudáfrica	South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity	0000-0002-8935-3296
Rajesh Rai	Review editor	Nepal	Nepal	Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University	0000-0002-2275-815X
David Richardson	Review editor	South Africa	Sudáfrica	Stellenbosch University
Romina Fernandez	Fellow	Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán	Argentina (la)	FONCyT	0000-0001-8710-6489
Ellen Ryan-Colton	Fellow	Australia	Australia	Charles Darwin University and Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara	0000-0002-3278-9443

Chapter 5. Effectiveness of past and current programmes and tools for the global, national and local prevention and management of invasive alien species and their impacts
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Sankaran Kavileveettil	Coordinating lead author	India (la)	India (la)	FAO of the UN
Evangelina Schwindt	Coordinating lead author	Argentina (la)	Argentina (la)	IBIOMAR-CONICET
Andrew Sheppard	Coordinating lead author	Australia	Australia	CSIRO
John Bukombe	Lead author	Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute	República Unida de Tanzanía (la) República Unida de Tanzanía (la)	Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute
Rafael Dudeque Zenni	Lead author	Brasil (el)	Brasil (el)	Federal University of Lavras (UFLA)
Chika Egawa	Lead author	Japón (el)	Japón (el)	Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Japan
Llewellyn Foxcroft	Lead author	Sudáfrica	Sudáfrica	South African National Parks
Ana Isabel Gonzalez-Martinez	Lead author	México	México	CONABIO National Commissio for the knowledge and use of biodiversity
Jana Mullerova	Lead author	Chequia	Chequia	Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti n. L.	0000-0001-7331-3479
Lora Peacock	Lead author	Nueva Zelandia	Nueva Zelandia	Ministry for Primary Industries- New Zealand
Sonia Vanderhoeven	Lead author	Bélgica	Bélgica	Belgian Biodiversity Platform	0000-0002-6298-5373
Wycliffe Wanzala	Lead author	Kenya	Kenya	Maasai Mara University
Shyama Pagad	Review editor		Nueva Zelandia	IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group/ University of Auckland, New Zealand
Silvia Ziller	Review editor	International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)	Brasil (el) Alemania	The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development
Maria Loreto Castillo	Fellow	Centre for Invasion Biology-Stellenbosch University	Chile	Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany of the ASCR	0000-0003-1228-172X
Dongang Mangwa	Fellow	Camerún (el)	Camerún (el) Camerún (el)	Dongang Ceraphine Mangwa, Department of Environmental Science, University of Buea

Chapter 6. Future options for the prevention and management of invasive alien species and provide an analysis of possible support tools for decision makers
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Melodie McGeoch	Coordinating lead author	FutureEarth	Australia Sudáfrica	La Trobe University	0000-0003-3388-2241
Alejandro Ordonez	Coordinating lead author	Dinamarca	Colombia Países Bajos (los)	Aarhus University - Denamrk	0000-0003-2873-4551
Ernesto Brugnoli	Lead author	Uruguay (el)	Uruguay (el)	Faculty of Sciences- Universidad de la República
Bridget Bwalya Umar	Lead author	Zambia	Zambia	University of Zambia	0000000336552248
Chaeho Byun	Lead author	República de Corea (la)	República de Corea (la)	Andong National University
Miguel Fernandez Trigoso	Lead author	NatureServe	Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de)	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)	0000-0002-8301-1340
Quentin Groom	Lead author	Bélgica	Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	Meise Botanic Garden	0000-0002-0596-5376
Patricia Howard	Lead author	Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)	Países Bajos (los) Estados Unidos de América (los)	Wageningen University Dept. of Social Sciences and University of Kent School of Anthropology and Conservation	0000-0002-9215-6146
Stanislav Ksenofontov	Lead author	Russian Federation	Federación de Rusia (la)	Ammosov North Eastern Federal University
Henn Ojaveer	Lead author	Estonia	Estonia	University of Tartu
Bharat Shrestha	Lead author	Nepal	Nepal	Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu	0000-0002-9457-2637
Daniel Simberloff	Lead author	Estados Unidos de América (los)	Estados Unidos de América (los)	University of Tennessee
Julie Lockwood	Review editor	United States of America	Estados Unidos de América (los)	Rutgers University	0000-0003-0177-449X
Sophie Riley	Review editor	Australia	Australia	University of Technology Sydney	0000-0002-8079-7069
Ninad Mungi	Fellow	India (la)	India (la)	Wildlife Institute of India	0000-0001-6502-0457
Betty Rono	Fellow	German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig	Kenya	Egerton University and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig	0000-0001-7886-1511

Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel representatives
Name	Role	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Rashad Allahverdiyev	Bureau task force/expert group member	Azerbaiyán	Khazar University	0000-0002-0295-2377
Eric Fokam	MEP task force/expert group member	Camerún (el)	University of Buea	0000-0003-4531-3580
Shizuka Hashimoto	MEP task force/expert group member	Japón (el)	University of Tokyo	0000-0003-4423-9374

Technical Support Unit
Name	Role	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Naoki Amako	Technical support unit (head)	Japón (el)	Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)	0000-0002-6482-0644
Ryoko Kawakami	Technical support unit	Japón (el)	Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Tanara Renard Truong Van Nga	Technical support unit	Francia	IGES - IAS-TSU