Information on the call for the nomination of experts to assist with the scoping of the second global assessment is available here (EM/2023/35). Please scroll down for the selected list of experts.
The group of experts to assist with the scoping of the second global assessment selected by the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of IPBES is comprised of experts and practitioners with outstanding expertise relevant to the second global assessment.
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 | ||
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| Sevil Acar | Expert | Türkiye | Turquía |
Boğaziçi University |  0000-0001-5535-8673 |
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| Sandra Verónica Acebey Quiroga | Expert | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de) |
Ecologia y Empresa S.R.L. | 0000-0003-2525-6283 |
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| Zuhre Aksoy | Expert | Türkiye | Turquía |
Bogazici University | 0000-0003-2142-2766 |
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| Mekuria Argaw Denboba | Expert | Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn | Etiopía |
Addis Ababa University | 0000-0001-6697-6709 |
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| Almut Arneth | Expert | Germany | Alemania |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 0000-0001-6616-0822 |
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| Habiba Atta | Expert | Nigeria | Nigeria |
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria | 0000-0003-3918-5666 |
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| Myrle Ballard | Expert | Canada | Canadá (el) |
University of Calgary / Environment and Climate Change Canada | 0000-0002-3069-0941 |
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| Nigel Barker | Expert | University of Pretoria | Sudáfrica |
University or Pretoria, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences | 0000-0002-4612-1399 |
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| Alexandre Caron | Expert | France | Francia |
CIRAD | 0000-0002-5213-3273 |
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| Ricardo Castro-Diaz | Expert | National University of Colombia | Colombia |
National University of Colombia | 0000-0001-7089-5485 |
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| Wenting Chen | Expert | Norway | |
Norwegian Insitute for Water Research | 0000-0001-6039-4476 |
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| Nakul Chettri | Expert | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) | India (la) |
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) | 0000-0002-3338-8879 |
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| Marta Coll Monton | Expert | Spain | España |
Intitute of Marine Science (ICM) - Spanish Scientific Resarch Council (CSIC) | 0000-0001-6235-5868 |
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| Tamara Contador | Expert | Cape Horn International Center | Chile |
Universidad de Magallanes | 0000-0002-0250-9877 |
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| Bálint Czúcz | Expert | Norway | Hungría |
Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA) | 0000-0002-6462-7633 |
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| Laura German | Expert | University of Georgia | Estados Unidos de América (los) |
Center for Integrative Conservation Research; University of Georgia | 0000-0003-4943-4515 |
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| Wame Hambira | Expert | Department of Environmental Affairs | Botswana |
Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources | |||
| Gladys Cecilia Hernández Pedraza | Expert | Centre for World Economy Studies (CIEM) | Cuba |
CIEM Centre for World Economy Studies | |||
| Forest Isbell | Expert | United States of America | Estados Unidos de América (los) |
University of Minnesota | 0000-0001-9689-769X |
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| Hiroe Ishihara | Expert | Japan | Japón (el) |
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo | 0000-0002-6977-0412 |
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| Sander Jacobs | Expert | Belgium | Bélgica |
Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO | 0000-0003-4674-4817 |
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| Miguel Jácome-Flores | Expert | Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad | México |
Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad | 0000-0003-1504-7920 |
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| Gensuo Jia | Expert | International Science Council (ISC) | China |
Global Change Research Center for East Asia, CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics | 0000-0001-5950-9555 |
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| Marijana Kapovic Solomun | Expert | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia y Herzegovina |
University of Banja Luka | |||
| Oxana Klimanova | Expert | Russian Federation | |
Lomonosov Moscow State University | |||
| Jagdish Krishnaswamy | Expert | Indian Institute for Human Settlements | India (la) |
School of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements | 0000-0001-7985-0005 |
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| Paul Leadley | Expert | Future Earth | Francia Estados Unidos de América (los) |
Ecology, Systematics evolution Labaratory, Paris-Saclay University | 0000-0002-8994-5507 |
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| Rafael Magris | Expert | Brazil | Brasil (el) |
ICMBio | 0000-0002-1471-6603 |
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| Ieva Misiune | Expert | Lithuania Ilia State University | Lituania |
Vilnius University | 0000-0003-4457-1094 |
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| Nsalambi Nkongolo | Expert | Democratic Republic of the Congo | República Democrática del Congo (la) Estados Unidos de América (los) |
Institut Facultaire des Sciences Agronomiques (IFA) de Yangambi, Kisangani, Dem. Rep. Congo | 0000-0003-2485-4759 |
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| Chioma Onyige | Expert | International Science Council (ISC) | Nigeria |
Department of Sociology, University of Port Harcourt | 0000-0001-7850-2041 |
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| Oluwakemi Osunderu | Expert | Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria | Nigeria |
Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria | 0000000308586897 |
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| Jerneja Penca | Expert | Slovenia | Eslovenia |
Science and Research Centre Koper | 0000-0002-2817-3443 |
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| Steve Polasky | Expert | United States of America | Estados Unidos de América (los) |
University of Minnesota | 0000-0003-4934-2434 |
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| Andy Purvis | Expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el) |
The Natural History Museum, London | 0000-0002-8609-6204 |
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| Helen Roy | Expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el) |
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; University of Exeter | 0000-0001-6050-679X |
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| Uttam Babu Shrestha | Expert | Nepal | Nepal |
Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Nepal | 0000-0002-8766-279X |
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| Cosimo Solidoro | Expert | Italy | Italia |
OGS national institute of oceanography and experimental geophysic | |||
| Andrew Stott | Expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte (el) |
Independent | 0009-0008-6778-0810 |
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| Alexander Turra | Expert | Brazil | Brasil (el) |
Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo - Unesco Chair for Ocean Sustainability | 0000-0003-2225-8371 |
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| Haigen Xu | Expert | Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON | China |
Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China |
| Name | Role | Nominating government/organisation | Nationality(ies) | Affiliation | ORCID Identifier | ||
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| Douglas Beard | Bureau task force/expert group member | Estados Unidos de América (los) |
U.S. Geological Survey, National Climate Adaptation Science Center | ||||
| David Obura | Bureau task force/expert group member | Kenya |
Coastal Oceans Research and Development – Indian Ocean (CORDIO) East Africa. | 0000-0003-2256-6649 |
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| Antonio Diaz-de-Leon | MEP task force/expert group member | México México |
Innovative Cutting Edge Solutions (ICES) | 0000-0002-1801-7033 |
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| Josef Settele | MEP task force/expert group member | Alemania |
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | 0000-0002-8624-4983 |