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Business and biodiversity scoping experts

Information on the call for the nomination of experts to assist with the scoping of the business and biodiversity assessment is available here. Please scroll down for the selected list of experts.

The group of experts to assist with the scoping of the assessment on business and biodiversity selected by the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of IPBES is comprised of experts and practitioners with outstanding expertise related to the impact and dependency of different economic sectors on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people.  Experts and practitioners come from a diversity of backgrounds including from academia and the private sector, and bring to the scoping process a diversity of relevant disciplines, expertise and domains.

They have been selected in their individual expert capacity and not to represent the views of any public or private organization. The Multidisciplinary Expert Panel aimed at a wide geographical representation from the five UN regions and gender balance, within the limits of the pool of nominations received. 

Experts

Name Role Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies) Affiliation ORCID Identifier
Cengiz Akandil Scoping expert Switzerland Suiza
Turquía
University of Zürich ORCID logo 0000-0001-5092-8921
Katerina Atanasovska Scoping expert North Macedonia Macedonia del Norte
Farmahem DOOEL environmental consultancy ORCID logo 0000-0002-1753-8590
Jan Bebbington Scoping expert United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)
Nueva Zelandia
University of Lancaster ORCID logo 0000-0001-7251-1780
Kate Brauman Scoping expert United States of America Estados Unidos de América (los)
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment ORCID logo 0000-0002-8099-285X
Kalpana Chaudhari Scoping expert India India (la)
Institute for Sustainable development and Research (ISDR)
Farid Chemat Scoping expert France Francia
Argelia
Avignon University ORCID logo 0000-0002-1712-3969
Dumisani Chirambo Scoping expert United Nations Development Programme Malawi
Seeds of Opportunity ORCID logo 0000-0003-2310-9896
Hamed Daly Scoping expert Tunisia Túnez
Steven Dickinson Scoping expert TOTAL SE Francia
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)
TotalEnergies SE ORCID logo 0000-0003-1480-8548
Clément Feger Scoping expert France Francia
AgroParisTech / University of Montpellier ORCID logo 0000-0003-0157-3292
Annelisa Grigg Scoping expert European Union Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)
Global Balance Ltd
Ernesto Herrera Guerra Scoping expert Mexico México
Reforestamos Mexico
Luis Inostroza Scoping expert Chile Chile
Mendel University in Brno ORCID logo 0000-0002-6303-4529
Norihiro Itsubo Scoping expert Japan Japón (el)
Tokyo city university
Lorena Jaramillo Scoping expert United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Ecuador (el)
UNCTAD
Chulhyun JEON Scoping expert Republic of Korea República de Corea (la)
National Institute of Forest Science, 57Hoegi-ro, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul, the Republic of Korea ORCID logo 0000-0002-7742-7315
Mark Johnston Scoping expert United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)
BP plc
Matt Jones Scoping expert United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)
UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) ORCID logo 0000-0002-5690-4274
Elikana Kalumanga Scoping expert United Republic of Tanzania República Unida de Tanzanía (la)
University of Dar es Salaam
Pauline Kalunda Scoping expert ECOTRUST - The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda Uganda
Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda ORCID logo 0000-0003-1268-5943
Michal Kulak Scoping expert Robeco Switzerland Polonia
Robeco Switzerland ORCID logo 0000-0002-4599-3195
Koichi Kuriyama Scoping expert Japan Japón (el)
Kyoto University
Jinlong Liu Scoping expert China China
Renmin University of China ORCID logo 0000-0002-0228-0865
Rafael Loyola Scoping expert Brazil Brasil (el)
International Institute for Sustainability ORCID logo 0000-0001-5323-2735
John Mburu Scoping expert International University Network on Cultural and Biological Diversity (IUNCBD) Kenya
University of Nairobi
Warwick Mostert Scoping expert Anglo American Sudáfrica
Anglo American
Valerie Nelson Scoping expert United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el)
University of Greenwich
Giuseppe Nerilli Scoping expert Italy Italia
Venezuela (República Bolivariana de)
Independent expert ORCID logo 0000000267620955
Fabien Quétier Scoping expert France Francia
Rewilding Europe ORCID logo 0000-0002-3767-0353
Asha Rajvanshi Scoping expert India India (la)
Independent Expert
Vanesa Rodriguez Osuna Scoping expert Germany Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de)
Alemania
UNEP Finance Initiative
Oliver Schelske Scoping expert Switzerland Suiza
Alemania
Swiss Re Institute ORCID logo 0000-0003-4273-5307
Jessica Smith Scoping expert Switzerland Canadá (el)
Suiza
UNEP Finance Initiative ORCID logo 0000-0001-7915-5061
Laura Sonter Scoping expert Australia Australia
The University of Queensland
Claudiana Souza Scoping expert Anglo American Brasil (el)
Anglo American
Rady Tawfik Scoping expert International Union for Conservation of Nature Regional Office for West Asia Egipto
Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) ORCID logo 0000-0002-8524-7023
Michel Trommetter Scoping expert France Francia
National Institute for Research in Agriculture and Environment
Madhu verma Scoping expert India India (la)
Iora Ecological Solutions ORCID logo 0000-0002-7982-9182
Ederson Augusto Zanetti Scoping expert Global Conservation Standard Brasil (el)
Global Conservation Standard ORCID logo 0009-0005-4766-8563
Yang Zhao Scoping expert China China
Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel representatives

Name Role Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies) Affiliation ORCID Identifier
Floyd Homer Bureau task force/expert group member Trinidad y Tabago
Multicrop Facility Ltd
Julia Marton - Lefevre Bureau task force/expert group member Francia
Estados Unidos de América (los)
Germán Andrade MEP task force/expert group member Colombia
Colombia
Instituto Humboldt
Judith Fisher MEP task force/expert group member Australia
Fisher Research Pty Ltd (Director and Principal Socio-ecologist) and Institute of Agriculture University of Western Australia and Curtin University and Western Australian Museum ORCID logo 0000-0003-1773-9832
Marie Stenseke MEP task force/expert group member Suecia
Department of Economy and Society, Gothenburg University ORCID logo 0000-0002-1111-5175