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 | ||
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Cengiz Akandil | Scoping expert | Switzerland | Suisse (la) Turquie (la) |
University of Zürich | ![]() |
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Katerina Atanasovska | Scoping expert | North Macedonia | Macédoine du Nord (la) |
Farmahem DOOEL environmental consultancy | ![]() |
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Jan Bebbington | Scoping expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (le) Nouvelle-Zélande (la) |
University of Lancaster | ![]() |
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Kate Brauman | Scoping expert | United States of America | États-Unis d'Amérique (les) |
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment | ![]() |
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Kalpana Chaudhari | Scoping expert | India | Inde (l') |
Institute for Sustainable development and Research (ISDR) | |||
Farid Chemat | Scoping expert | France | France (la) Algérie (l') |
Avignon University | ![]() |
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Dumisani Chirambo | Scoping expert | United Nations Development Programme | Malawi (le) |
Seeds of Opportunity | ![]() |
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Hamed Daly | Scoping expert | Tunisia | Tunisie (la) |
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Steven Dickinson | Scoping expert | TOTAL SE | France (la) Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (le) |
TotalEnergies SE | ![]() |
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Clément Feger | Scoping expert | France | France (la) |
AgroParisTech / University of Montpellier | ![]() |
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Annelisa Grigg | Scoping expert | European Union | Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (le) |
Global Balance Ltd | |||
Ernesto Herrera Guerra | Scoping expert | Mexico | Mexique (le) |
Reforestamos Mexico | |||
Luis Inostroza | Scoping expert | Chile | Chili (le) |
Mendel University in Brno | ![]() |
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Norihiro Itsubo | Scoping expert | Japan | Japon (le) |
Tokyo city university | |||
Lorena Jaramillo | Scoping expert | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | Équateur (l') |
UNCTAD | |||
Chulhyun JEON | Scoping expert | Republic of Korea | République de Corée (la) |
National Institute of Forest Science, 57Hoegi-ro, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul, the Republic of Korea | ![]() |
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Mark Johnston | Scoping expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (le) |
BP plc | |||
Matt Jones | Scoping expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (le) |
UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) | ![]() |
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Elikana Kalumanga | Scoping expert | United Republic of Tanzania | République-Unie de Tanzanie (la) |
University of Dar es Salaam | |||
Pauline Kalunda | Scoping expert | ECOTRUST - The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda | Ouganda (l') |
Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda | ![]() |
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Michal Kulak | Scoping expert | Robeco Switzerland | Pologne (la) |
Robeco Switzerland | ![]() |
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Koichi Kuriyama | Scoping expert | Japan | Japon (le) |
Kyoto University | |||
Jinlong Liu | Scoping expert | China | Chine (la) |
Renmin University of China | ![]() |
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Rafael Loyola | Scoping expert | Brazil | Brésil (le) |
International Institute for Sustainability | ![]() |
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John Mburu | Scoping expert | International University Network on Cultural and Biological Diversity (IUNCBD) | Kenya (le) |
University of Nairobi | |||
Warwick Mostert | Scoping expert | Anglo American | Afrique du Sud (l') |
Anglo American | |||
Valerie Nelson | Scoping expert | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord (le) |
University of Greenwich | |||
Giuseppe Nerilli | Scoping expert | Italy | Italie (l') Venezuela (République bolivarienne du) |
Independent expert | ![]() |
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Fabien Quétier | Scoping expert | France | France (la) |
Rewilding Europe | ![]() |
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Asha Rajvanshi | Scoping expert | India | Inde (l') |
Independent Expert | |||
Vanesa Rodriguez Osuna | Scoping expert | Germany | Bolivie (État plurinational de) Allemagne (l') |
UNEP Finance Initiative | |||
Oliver Schelske | Scoping expert | Switzerland | Suisse (la) Allemagne (l') |
Swiss Re Institute | ![]() |
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Jessica Smith | Scoping expert | Switzerland | Canada (le) Suisse (la) |
UNEP Finance Initiative | ![]() |
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Laura Sonter | Scoping expert | Australia | Australie (l') |
The Biodiversity Consultancy | ![]() |
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Claudiana Souza | Scoping expert | Anglo American | Brésil (le) |
Anglo American | |||
Rady Tawfik | Scoping expert | International Union for Conservation of Nature Regional Office for West Asia | Égypte (l') |
Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) | ![]() |
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Michel Trommetter | Scoping expert | France | France (la) |
National Institute for Research in Agriculture and Environment | |||
Madhu verma | Scoping expert | India | Inde (l') |
Iora Ecological Solutions | ![]() |
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Ederson Augusto Zanetti | Scoping expert | Global Conservation Standard | Brésil (le) |
Global Conservation Standard | ![]() |
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Yang Zhao | Scoping expert | China | Chine (la) |
Ministry of Ecology and Environment |
Name | Role | Nominating government/organisation | Nationality(ies) | Affiliation | ORCID Identifier | ||
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Floyd Homer | Bureau task force/expert group member | Trinité-et-Tobago (la) |
Multicrop Facility Ltd | ||||
Julia Marton - Lefevre | Bureau task force/expert group member | France (la) États-Unis d'Amérique (les) |
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Germán Andrade Perez | MEP task force/expert group member | Colombie (la) Colombie (la) |
Instituto Humboldt | ||||
Judith Fisher | MEP task force/expert group member | Australie (l') |
Fisher Research Pty Ltd (Director and Principal Socio-ecologist) and Institute of Agriculture University of Western Australia and Curtin University and Western Australian Museum | ![]() |
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Marie Stenseke | MEP task force/expert group member | Suède (la) |
Department of Economy and Society, Gothenburg University | ![]() |