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ILK liaison group members

The below table contains the experts information .

Deliverable: Sustainable use assessment
Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Ms. Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar Bureau task force/expert group member Female Colombia
Dr. Marla Emery Chair Female United States of America United States of America
Prof. Ram Prasad Chaudhary Coordinating lead author Male Nepal Nepal
Prof. Christo Fabricius Coordinating lead author Male World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South Africa
Dr. Marwa Halmy Coordinating lead author Female Egypt Egypt
Dr. Tamara Ticktin Coordinating lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Canada
Dr. Murali Chatakonda Fellow Male India India
Dr. Shiva DEVKOTA Fellow Male Nepal Nepal
Dr. Camila Islas Fellow Female Brazil Brazil
Uruguay
Prof. Denise Margaret Matias Fellow Female Philippines Philippines
Dr. Marie Christine Cormier Salem Lead author Female France France
Dr. Shalini Dhyani Lead author Female India India
Dr. Isabel Díaz-Reviriego Lead author Female Spain Spain
Dr. Janaina Diniz Lead author Female Brazil Brazil
Prof. Edson Gandiwa Lead author Male Zimbabwe Zimbabwe
Dr. Lisa Hiwasaki Lead author Female Japan Japan
Ms. Esther Katz Lead author Female France France
Dr. Gabriela Lichtenstein Lead author Female Argentina Argentina
Germany
Mr. Enrique Michaud Lead author Male Peru Peru
Ms. Pua'ala Pascua Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Mr. Helder Lima Queiroz Lead author Male Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES) Brazil
Ms. Kristina Raab Lead author Female Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Canada
United States of America
Dr. Patricia Shanley Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Uttam Babu Shrestha Lead author Male Nepal Nepal
Dr. Renato Silvano Lead author Male Brazil Brazil
Portugal
Dr. Kevin St. Martin Lead author Male United States of America United States of America
Prof. Rachel Wynberg Lead author Female South Africa South Africa
Deliverable: Transformative change assessment
Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Dr. Arun Agrawal Chair Male United States of America United States of America
Prof. Lucas Garibaldi Chair Male Argentina Argentina
Karen O'Brien Chair Female Norway Norway
Dr. Hannah Gosnell Coordinating lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Janita Gurung Coordinating lead author Female ICIMOD Nepal
Prof. Victoria Reyes García Coordinating lead author Female Spain Spain
Prof. Sebastian Villasante Coordinating lead author Male Spain Spain
Argentina
Prof. Fern Wickson Coordinating lead author Female Norway Norway
Australia
Dr. Rachel Golden Kroner Fellow Female United States of America United States of America
Adla Kahrić Fellow Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dr. Oleksandr Karasov Fellow Male Estonia Ukraine
Mr. Koji Miwa Fellow Male Japan Japan
Dr. Josheena Naggea Fellow Female Stanford University Mauritius
Dr. Asmita Sengupta Fellow Female Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) India
Dr. Geraud Canis Tasse Taboue Fellow Male Laboratory for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology University of Buea Cameroon
Dr. Andressa V. Mansur Fellow Female Center for the Analysis of Social Ecological Landscapes-Indiana University Bloomington Brazil
Zuhre Aksoy Lead author Female Türkiye Türkiye
Dr. Martha Bonilla Lead author Female Mexico Mexico
Dr. Claudia Campos Lead author Female Argentina Argentina
Mr. Rodwell Chandipo Lead author Male Zambia Zambia
Dr. Juan Dabezies Lead author Male Uruguay Uruguay
Prof. Erle Ellis Lead author Male Future Earth United States of America
Dr. Edgar Espinoza-Cisneros Lead author Male Costa Rica Costa Rica
Ms. Keisha Garcia Lead author Female Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Mrs. Vera Hausner Lead author Female Norway Norway
Ms. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza Lead author Female Switzerland Nigeria
Switzerland
Dr. David Lam Lead author Male Germany Germany
Dr. Lelani Mannetti Lead author Female Urban Studies Institute Georgia State University Namibia
Prof. Valerie Nelson Lead author Female United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr. Maiko Nishi Lead author Female Japan Japan
Teresia Olemako Lead author United Republic of Tanzania
Ms. Kristina Raab Lead author Female Germany Canada
United States of America
Dr. Roseline Remans Lead author Female Belgium Belgium
Prof. Nicholas (Nick) Roskruge Lead author Male International Science Council (ISC) New Zealand
Ms. Cristiana Simao Seixas Lead author Female Brazil Brazil
Dr. Kanae Tokunaga Lead author United States of America Japan
Dr. Coleen Vogel Lead author Female South Africa South Africa
Dr. Sandra Waddock Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Helen Wheeler Lead author British Ecological Society United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr. Yuki Yoshida Lead author Female Japan Japan
Deliverable: Values assessment
Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Prof. Patricia Balvanera Chair Female Mexico Mexico
Ms. Brigitte Baptiste Chair Alexander von Humboldt Institute Colombia
Spain
Prof. Unai Pascual Chair Male Switzerland Spain
Ms. Simone Athayde Coordinating lead author Female Brazil United States of America
Brazil
Prof. Elena Lazos Chavero Coordinating lead author Female Mexico Mexico
Ms. Suneetha Mazhenchery Subramanian Coordinating lead author Female United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) India
Dr. Tuyeni Mwampamba Coordinating lead author Female United Republic of Tanzania United Republic of Tanzania
Dr. Lelani Mannetti Fellow Female Urban Studies Institute Georgia State University Namibia
Ms. Ana Monroy Fellow Female Mexico Mexico
Dr. Mariaelena Huambachano Lead author Female Peru Peru
New Zealand
Juliana Mercon Lead author Female Brazil Brazil
Prof. Gabriel Nemogá Lead author Male Colombia Colombia
Canada
Mr. Jonas NGOUHOUO-POUFOUN Lead author Male Cameroon France
Cameroon
Prof. Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville Lead author Female University of Northern British Columbia Canada
Poland
Dr. Luciana Porter-Bolland Lead author Female Mexico Mexico
Dr. Ricardo Rozzi Lead author Male Chile Chile
United States of America
Aibek Samakov Lead author Male Aigine Cultural Research Center Kyrgyzstan
Eglee Zent Lead author Female Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Deliverable: Global assessment (1st work programme)
Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Mr. Eduardo Brondizio Chair Male Brazil Brazil
United States of America
Prof. Josef Settele Chair Male Germany Germany
Dr. Jianguo Liu Coordinating lead author Male United States of America China
Mr. Zsolt Molnár Coordinating lead author Male Hungary Hungary
Dr. Rinku Roy Chowdhury Coordinating lead author Female United States of America
Ms. Cynthia Zayas Coordinating lead author Female Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc. (Anthropological Association of the Philippines) Philippines
Dr. Álvaro Fernández Llamazares Fellow Male University of Helsinki Spain
Dr. Michelle Lim Fellow Female International Social Science Council (ISSC) Australia
Mr. Ignacio Palomo Fellow Male Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) Spain
Aibek Samakov Fellow Male Kyrgyzstan
Dr. Uttam Babu Shrestha Fellow Male Global Young Academy Nepal
Ms. Anna Sidorovich Fellow Female The Scientific and Practical Centre for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Belarus
Ms. Cristina Adams Lead author Female Brazil
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr. Yildiz Aumeeruddy Thomas Lead author Female Mauritius Mauritius
Dr. Yaw Agyeman Boafo Lead author Male Ghana
Dr. Ana Paula Dutra De Aguiar Lead author Female Brazil
Dr. Kathleen Galvin Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Dr. Tamrat Gode Lead author Male Ethiopia Ethiopia
Ms. Gladys Cecilia Hernández Pedraza Lead author Female Cuba
Dr. Melanie Kolb Lead author Mexico Mexico
Dr. Ishmael Bobby Mphangwe Kosamu Lead author Male Malawi Malawi
Ms. Pamela Mcelwee Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Ms. Leticia Merino Lead author Female Mexico
Dr. Philip Osano Lead author Male Stockholm Environment Institute Kenya
Prof. Victoria Reyes García Lead author Female Spain Spain
Dr. Osamu Saito Lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Jyothis Sathyapalan Lead author Male India India
India
Mr. Gopal Shankar Singh Lead author Male India
Deliverable: Invasive alien species assessment
Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Amb Peter Stoett Chair Male Canada Canada
Prof. Philip Hulme Coordinating lead author Male New Zealand New Zealand
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Prof. Tohru Ikeda Coordinating lead author Male Japan Japan
Dr. Sebataolo Rahlao Coordinating lead author Male South Africa Lesotho
Ms. Ellen Ryan-Colton Fellow Female Australia Australia
Dr. Michael Ansong Lead author Male Ghana Ghana
Dr. John Bukombe Lead author Male Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute United Republic of Tanzania
United Republic of Tanzania
Dr. Bridget Bwalya Umar Lead author Female Zambia Zambia
Dr. Ana Isabel Gonzalez-Martinez Lead author Female Mexico Mexico
Dr. Ankila Hiremath Lead author Female Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) India
Prof. Patricia Howard Lead author Female United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
United States of America
Dr. Stanislav Ksenofontov Lead author Male Russian Federation Russian Federation
Dr. IKEGAMI Makihiko Lead author Japan
Mr. Alifereti Tawake Lead author Male Fiji Fiji
Prof. Wycliffe Wanzala Lead author Male Kenya Kenya
Deliverable: Nexus assessment
Name Role Gender Nominating government/organisation Nationality(ies)
Mr. Edmundo Barrios Coordinating lead author Male Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Dr. Ro McFarlane Coordinating lead author Female Australia Australia
Prof. Ernest Lytia Molua Coordinating lead author Male Centre for Independent Development Research University of Buea Cameroon Cameroon
Dr. Walter Pengue Coordinating lead author Male UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE GENERAL SARMIENTO Argentina
Prof. Pramod Singh Coordinating lead author Male India India
Mr. Pradeep Dubey Fellow Male IUCN CEM Agroecosystem Specilaist Group India
Dr. Paulina Karimova Fellow Female National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Russian Federation
Australia
Dr. Maysoun Mustafa Fellow Female Sudan Sudan
Dr. Andrea Pacheco Fellow Female German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Honduras
Dr. Kofi Akamani Lead author Male Southern Illinois University Carbondale Ghana
Dr. Ricardo Castro-Diaz Lead author Male Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Colombia
Dr. Connor Cavanagh Lead author Male Norway Canada
Sunita Chaudhary Lead author Female International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Nepal
Mr. Pablo De La Cruz Lead author Male Colombia Colombia
Dr. Julio Diaz-Jose Lead author Male Mexico Mexico
Dr. Anna Filyushkina Lead author Female Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University Russian Federation
Dr. Sonali Ghosh Lead author Female IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management India
Dr. Himangana Gupta Lead author Female United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) India
Dr. Collins Handa Lead author Male Kenya Kenya
Dr. Caroline Howe Lead author Imperial College London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr. Amenan Kouame Lead author Female Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire
Dr. Pankaj Kumar Lead author Male Japan India
Dr. Makarius Lalika Lead author Male United Republic of Tanzania United Republic of Tanzania
Dr. David Leclere Lead author Male Austria France
Prof. Kuang-Chung Lee Lead author Male College of Environmental Studies,NDHU China
Dr. Sandra Luque Lead author Female France France
Argentina
Dr. Silvia Materu Lead author Female United Republic of Tanzania United Republic of Tanzania
Prof. Denise Margaret Matias Lead author Female Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme Philippines
Felipe Melo Lead author Male Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES) Brazil
Prof. Anna Metaxas Lead author Canada Canada
Greece
Dr. Clara Minaverry Lead author Female Argentina Argentina
Italy
Sui Phang Lead author Male Malaysia Malaysia
Mr. Kamal Rai Lead author Male indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Network Society for Wetland Biodiversity Conservation Nepal Nepal
Dr. Brenda Rashleigh Lead author Female United States of America United States of America
Prof. Marta Guadalupe Rivera-Ferre Lead author Female Spain Spain
Dr. Francisco Rosado-May Lead author Male Mexico
Dr. Kamal Sangha Lead author Female Australia Australia
Maria J. Santos Lead author Female Switzerland Switzerland
Portugal
Dr. Diana Sietz Lead author Thünen Institute of Biodiversity Germany
Dr. Maria Tirado Lead author Female Spain Spain
Dr. Ana Paula Turetta Lead author Female Brazil Brazil
Dr. Ant Türkmen Lead author Male Ecological Research Society Türkiye
Dr. Mariana Vale Lead author Female Brazilian Network on Global Climate Change Research Brazil
Dr. Mariam Wallet Mohamed Aboubakrine Lead author Female Canada Mali
Canada
Dr. Mohamed Behnassi Review editor Male Morocco Morocco
Prof. Elva Escobar Review editor Female Mexico Mexico