Global assessment experts

Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Carneiro Da Cunha, Maria Manuela	Review editor	Female		Portugal
Mace, Georgina	Review editor	Female		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mooney, Harold	Review editor	Male	United States of America	United States of America United States of America
Diaz, Sandra	Chair	Female	Future Earth	Argentina
Settele, Josef	Chair	Male	GermanyHelmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)	Germany
Sonnewend Brondizio, Eduardo	Chair	Male	Brazil	Brazil
Baste, Ivar Andreas	Bureau expert group member	Male		Norway
Mohammadi Fazel, Asghar	Bureau expert group member	Male		Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Watson, Robert	Bureau expert group member	Male		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Baptiste, Brigitte	MEP expert group member	Female		Colombia
Erpul, Günay	MEP expert group member	Male		Turkey
Leadley, Paul	MEP expert group member	Male		France
Mathur, Vinod Bihari	MEP expert group member	Male		India
Pascual, Unai	MEP expert group member	Male		Spain
Pataridze, Tamar	MEP expert group member	Female		Georgia
Stenseke, Marie	MEP expert group member	Female		Sweden
Woodmatas, Sebsebe Demissew	MEP expert group member	Male		Ethiopia
Ngo, Hien	Technical Support Unit head	Female		Canada
Gueze, Maximilien	Technical Support Unit	Male		France

Chapter 1: introduction and setting the stage.
Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Diaz, Sandra	Coordinating Lead Author	Female		Argentina
Settele, Josef	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Germany	Germany
Sonnewend Brondizio, Eduardo	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Brazil	Brazil
Bai, Xuemei	Lead Author	Female	Australia	Australia
Geschke, Arne	Lead Author	Male	Germany	Germany
Simcock, Alan	Lead Author	Male		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Willis, Katherine	Lead Author	Female		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chapter 2: status and trends; indirect and direct drivers of change
Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Balvanera , Patricia	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	Mexico	Mexico
Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Argentina	Argentina
Molnár, Zsolt	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Hungary	Hungary
Pfaff TalikOFF, Alexander	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	United States of America	United States of America
Polasky, Steve	Coordinating Lead Author	Male		United States of America
Purvis, Andrew	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Zayas, Cynthia	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc. (Anthropological Association of the Philippines)	Philippines
Aumeeruddy Thomas, Yildiz	Lead Author	Female		Mauritius
Brauman, Kate	Lead Author	Female	Institute on the Environment	United States of America
Chettri, Nakul	Lead Author	Male	International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)	India
Declerck, Fabrice	Lead Author	Male	Belgium	Belgium
Gabrielyan, Bardukh	Lead Author	Male	National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia	Armenia
Garcia Frapolli, Eduardo	Lead Author	Male		Mexico
Gutt, Julian	Lead Author	Male	Germany	Germany
Hendry, Andrew	Lead Author	Male		United States of America
Hussain, Syed Ainul	Lead Author	Male	India	India
Ichii, Kazuhito	Lead Author	Male		Japan
Jacob, Ute	Lead Author	Female	Germany	Germany
Keskin, Emre	Lead Author	Male	Turkey	Turkey
Li, Junsheng	Lead Author	Male	China	China
Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique	Lead Author	Male		Argentina
Merino, Leticia	Lead Author	Female		Mexico
Minang, Peter Akong	Lead Author	Male		Kenya
Nagabhatla, Nidhi	Lead Author	Female	United Nations University	India
Niamir, Aidin	Lead Author	Male	Germany	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Nkongolo, Nsalambi	Lead Author	Male		Democratic Republic of the Congo
Obura, David	Lead Author	Male	Kenya	Kenya
Öztürk, Bayram	Lead Author	Male	Turkey	Turkey
Palang, Hannes	Lead Author	Male	Estonia	Estonia
Santin Brancalion, Pedro Henrique	Lead Author	Male		Brazil
Shannon, Lynne	Lead Author	Female	South Africa	South Africa
Verma, Madhu	Lead Author	Female	India	India
Viña, Andres	Lead Author	Male		Colombia
Arceo, Hazel	Review editor	Female		Philippines
Asah, Stanley	Review editor	Male		United States of America Cameroon
Dirzo, Rodolfo	Review editor	Male		Mexico
Lambin, Eric	Review editor	Male		Belgium
Mistry, Jayalaxshmi	Review editor	Female		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Jaureguiberry, Pedro	Fellow	Male	Inter-American Institute For Global Change Research	Argentina
Salimov, Rashad	Fellow	Male		Azerbaijan
Shrestha, Uttam Babu	Fellow	Male	Global Young Academy	Nepal
Sidorovich, Anna	Fellow	Female	The Scientific and Practical Centre for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus	Belarus

Chapter 3: progress towards meeting major international objectives related to biodiversity and ecosystem services
Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Butchart, Stuart	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mazhenchery Subramanian, Suneetha	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	United Nations University	India
Miloslavich de Klein, Patricia	Coordinating Lead Author	Female		Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Reyers, Belinda	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	South Africa	South Africa
Adams, Cristina	Lead Author	Female		Brazil
Bennett, Elena	Lead Author	Female	United States of America	United States of America
Czúcz, Bálint	Lead Author	Male	Hungary	Hungary
Galetto, Leonardo	Lead Author	Male	Argentina	Argentina
Galvin, Kathleen	Lead Author	Female	United States of America	United States of America
Gerber, Leah	Lead Author	Female	Ecoservices Group, Arizona State University	United States of America
Gode, Tamrat	Lead Author	Male	Ethiopia	Ethiopia
Jetz, Walter	Lead Author	Male	Future Earth	Germany
Kosamu, Ishmael Bobby Mphangwe	Lead Author	Male	Malawi	Malawi
Kubiszewski, Ida	Lead Author	Female	Australia	Australia United States of America
Palomo, Maria Gabriela	Lead Author	Female	Argentina	Argentina
Panahi, Mostafa	Lead Author	Male	ECO-IEST	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Reyes García, Victoria	Lead Author	Female	Spain	Spain
Selig, Elizabeth	Lead Author	Female	Norway	United States of America
Singh, Gopal Shankar	Lead Author	Male		India
Tarkhnishvili, David	Lead Author	Male		Georgia
Xu, Haigen	Lead Author	Male	China	China
Berkes, Fikret	Review editor	Male		Turkey
Brooks, Thomas	Review editor	Male	United States of America	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Lynch, Abigail Julia	Fellow	Female	United States of America	United States of America
Mwampamba, Tuyeni Heita	Fellow	Female	United Republic of Tanzania	Mexico
Samakov, Aibek	Fellow	Male		Kyrgyzstan

Chapter 4: plausible futures of nature, nature's benefits to people and their contributions to a good quality of life
Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Arneth, Almut	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	Germany	Germany
Chowdhury, Rinku Roy	Coordinating Lead Author	Female		United States of America
Kindlmann, Pavel	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Czech Republic	Czech Republic
Midgley, Guy	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	South Africa	South Africa
Shin, Yunne Jai	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	France	France
Boafo, Yaw Agyeman	Lead Author	Male		Ghana
Bukvareva, Elena	Lead Author	Female		Russian Federation
Heinimann, Andreas	Lead Author	Male	Switzerland	Switzerland
Horcea Milcu, Andra Ioana	Lead Author	Female		Romania
Jyothis, Sathyapalan	Lead Author	Male	India	India
Kolb, Melanie	Lead Author	Female	Mexico	Mexico
Loyola Diaz, Rafael	Lead Author	Male	Conservation Biogeography Lab, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil	Brazil
Oberdorff, Thierry	Lead Author	Male	INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT	France
Osano, Philip Molo	Lead Author	Male	Stockholm Environment Institute	Kenya
Ouyang, Zhiyun	Lead Author	Male	China	China
Pichs Madruga, Ramon De La Concepcion	Lead Author	Male	Asociacion Nacional de Economistas de Cuba (ANEC)	Cuba
Rondinini, Carlo	Lead Author	Male	International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)	Italy
Saito, Osamu	Lead Author	Male	Japan	Japan
Yue, Tianxiang	Lead Author	Male	China	China
Chytrý, Milan	Review editor	Male		Czech Republic
Costanza, Robert	Review editor	Male	Australia	Australia United States of America
Basher, Md Zeenatul	Fellow	Male	Michigan State University	Bangladesh
Palomo, Ignacio	Fellow	Male	Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)	Spain
Pliscoff, Patricio	Fellow	Male	Chile	Chile

Chapter 5: scenarios and pathways towards a sustainable future
Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Agard, John	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago
Chan, Kai	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	Canada	Canada
Liu, Jianguo	Coordinating Lead Author	Male	United States of America	United States of America
Armenteras Pascual, Dolors	Lead Author	Female	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia
Cheung, Wai Lung (william)	Lead Author	Male	Future Earth	China
Dutra De Aguiar, Ana Paula	Lead Author	Female		Brazil
Hashimoto, Shizuka	Lead Author	Male	Japan	Japan
Hernández Pedraza, Gladys Cecilia	Lead Author	Female		Cuba
Hickler, Thomas	Lead Author	Male	Germany	Germany
Jetzkowitz, Jens	Lead Author	Male	Germany	Germany
Kok, Marcel	Lead Author	Male	Netherlands	Netherlands
Murray Hudson, Michael Alan	Lead Author	Male	University of Botswana	Botswana
O'farrell, Patrick John	Lead Author	Male	South Africa	South Africa
Satterfield, Theresa	Lead Author	Female	Canada	Canada
Saysel, Ali Kerem	Lead Author	Male	Turkey	Turkey
Seppelt, Ralf	Lead Author	Male	Germany	Germany
Strassburg, Bernardo	Lead Author	Male		Brazil
Xue, Dayuan	Lead Author	Male	China	China
Esler, Karen	Review editor	Female		South Africa
Vivekanandan, Elayaperuma	Review editor	Male		India
Balint, Lenke	Fellow	Female	Birdlife International	Romania Hungary
Mohamed, Assem	Fellow	Male		Egypt
Selomane, Odirilwe	Fellow	Male	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) South Africa	South Africa

Chapter 6: opportunities and challenges for decision makers
Name	Role	Gender	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)
Razzaque, Jona	Coordinating Lead Author	Female		United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Visseren Hamakers, Ingrid	Coordinating Lead Author	Female	United States of America	Netherlands
Gautam, Ambika Prasad	Lead Author	Male		Nepal
Gerber, Leah	Lead Author	Female	Ecoservices Group, Arizona State University	United States of America
Islar, Mine	Lead Author	Female	Turkey	Turkey
Karim, Md Saiful	Lead Author	Male	Australia	Australia
Kelemen, Eszter	Lead Author	Female	Hungary	Hungary
Liu, Jinlong	Lead Author	Male	China	China
Lui, Gabriel	Lead Author	Male		Brazil
Mcelwee, Pamela	Lead Author	Female	United States of America	United States of America
Mohammed, Abrar Juhar	Lead Author	Male	Addis Ababa University	Ethiopia
Mungatana, Eric Dada	Lead Author	Male		Kenya
Muradian, Roldan	Lead Author	Male		Netherlands
Rusch, Graciela	Lead Author	Female	Noregian institute for nature research	Argentina
Turnhout, Esther	Lead Author	Female	Netherlands	Netherlands
Williams, Meryl	Lead Author	Female		Australia
Lillo, Julia Carabias	Review editor	Female		Mexico
Plesník, Jan	Review editor	Male	Czech Republic	Czech Republic
Chan, Ivis Julieta	Fellow	Female		Belize
Fernández Llamazares Onrubia, Álvaro	Fellow	Male	University of Helsinki	Spain
Lim, Michelle Mei Ling	Fellow	Female	International Social Science Council (ISSC)	Malaysia