Monitoring assessment experts

Information on the call for the nomination of experts to assist with the methodological assessment on monitoring biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (“monitoring assessment”) is available here (EM/2023/36).

Please note:

The allocation of experts to chapters may be subject to change.

Additional experts may be selected in line with the procedure for filling gaps in expertise set out in annex I to decision IPBES-4/3.

Experts

Chairs
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Alvaro D'Antona	Chair	Brazil	Brazil	Unicamp	0000-0003-1710-6277
Andrew Gonzalez	Chair	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	Canada United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	McGill University	0000-0001-6075-8081
Patricia Miloslavich	Chair	Australia	Australia Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	Australian Antarctic Division	0000-0001-5409-1401

Chapter 1: Setting the scene
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Gabriela Lichtenstein	Coordinating lead author	Argentina	Argentina Germany	CONICET
Victor Martinez Vicente	Coordinating lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Spain	Plymouth Marine Laboratory	0000-0003-3492-583X
Haigen Xu	Coordinating lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	China	Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China
Andrea Belgrano	Lead author	Sweden	Italy Sweden	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Matthew Betts	Lead author	United States of America	United States of America Canada	Oregon State University	0000-0002-7100-2551
Claudia Campos	Lead author	Argentina	Argentina	Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA- CONICET)
Bálint Czúcz	Lead author	Norway	Hungary	Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA)	0000-0002-6462-7633
Miguel Fernandez Trigoso	Lead author	iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)	0000-0002-8301-1340
David Galvan	Lead author	Argentina	Argentina	Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR - CONICET)	0000-0001-8132-6069
Reia Guppy	Lead author	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	The University of Trinidad and Tobago	0000-0002-4281-2029
Alice Kammwamba	Lead author	Malawi	Malawi	Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources	0009-0002-6172-8532
Laetitia Navarro	Lead author	Spain	France	Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)	0000-0003-1099-5147
Leonard Sandin	Lead author	Norway	Sweden	Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning	0000-0003-1685-5305
Jingxia Wang	Lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	China	The University of Sheffield	0000-0003-0627-2819
Shoko Sakai	Review editor	Japan	Japan	Hong Kong Baptist University	0000-0002-4267-8405
PJ Stephenson	Review editor	Switzerland	Switzerland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	University of Lausanne/IUCN SSC Species Monitoring Specialist Group	0000-0002-0087-466X
Rafaella Canessa Mesías	Fellow	Chile	Chile	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig	0000-0002-6979-9880
Celesté Maré	Fellow	South Africa	South Africa	Aarhus University	0000-0002-9298-4769

Chapter 2: Assessing the data needs
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Maria Dornelas	Coordinating lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Portugal	University of St Andrews	0000-0003-2077-7055
Frank Masese	Coordinating lead author	Kenya	Kenya	University of Eldoret, Kenya	0000-0002-5912-5049
Aysegul Sirakaya	Coordinating lead author	Türkiye	Türkiye Belgium	Abyss, Natural History Museum	0000-0003-3330-1750
Diana Bowler	Lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	0000-0002-7775-1668
Ivan Campos	Lead author	Brazil	Brazil	CEMAVE/ICMBIo	0000-0003-3802-2814
Ezequiel Fabiano	Lead author	Namibia	Portugal	Multilateral Environmental Agreement Monitoring Unit, Department of Wildlife Management and Tourism Studies	0000-0002-4126-5270
Andrea Ghermandi	Lead author	Israel	Israel Italy	School of Environmental Sciences, University of Haifa	0000-0002-9403-4265
Tim Hirsch	Lead author	Global Biodiversity Information Facility	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	GBIF	0000-0002-5015-5807
Mariana Lozada	Lead author	Argentina	Argentina	IBIOMAR CONICET	0000-0003-4037-9169
Pinki Mondal	Lead author	United States of America	United States of America	University of Delaware	0000-0002-7323-6335
Janwar Moreno	Lead author	Colombia	Colombia	Universidad de Pamplona	0000-0002-9145-6470
Akira Mori	Lead author	Japan	Japan	The University of Tokyo	0000-0002-8422-1198
Patrick OFarrell	Lead author	South Africa	South Africa	University of the Western Cape	0000-0002-9538-8831
Fanie Pelletier	Lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	Canada	Université de Sherbrooke	0000-0002-0113-5412
Gil Rilov	Lead author	Israel	Israel	(1) National Institute of Oceanogaphy, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research (IOLR); (2) School of Marine Sciences, Univesity of Haifa	0000-0002-1334-4887
Hanieh Saeedi	Lead author	Germany	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Goethe University Frankfurt and Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany
Simone Stevenson	Lead author	Deakin University	Australia	Deakin Marine Research and Innovation Centre	0000-0002-9807-9807
Madhu verma	Lead author	IORA Ecological Solutions Pvt Ltd	India	Iora Ecological Solutions	0000-0002-7982-9182
Aventino Kasangaki	Review editor	Uganda	Uganda	Kabale University	0000-0002-9762-4666
Tatsiana Lipinskaya	Review editor	Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus	Belarus	Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus	0000-0001-5088-8114
Hanna Honchar	Fellow	Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ	Ukraine	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ	0000-0002-3429-5500
Jinyan Yang	Fellow	Australia			0000-0002-4936-0627

Chapter 3: Assessing the challenges in biodiversity monitoring to meet needs
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Alice Hughes	Coordinating lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences	0000-0002-4220-1033
RANJAY Singh	Coordinating lead author	IUCN CEM Agroecosystem Specilaist Group	India India	Division of Agricultural Extension, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi,	0000-0002-5545-4574
Alexander Turra	Coordinating lead author	Brazil	Brazil	Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo - Unesco Chair for Ocean Sustainability	0000-0003-2225-8371
Elhadi Adam	Lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	Sudan	University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies	0000-0003-3626-5839
Antonella Arcangeli	Lead author	Italy	Italy	ISPRA	0000-0003-2156-9987
David Barnes	Lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	British Antarctic Survey	0000-0002-9076-7867
Neil Burgess	Lead author	UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	University of Copenhagen	0000-0003-2291-4535
Pablo De La Cruz	Lead author	Colombia	Colombia
Nazli Demirel	Lead author	Türkiye	Türkiye	Istanbul University	0000-0003-4542-9276
Maurizio Ferrari	Lead author	Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)	Italy	Forest Peoples Programme
Sandra Luque	Lead author	France	France Argentina	INRAE	0000-0002-4002-3974
Lucie Penin	Lead author	France	France		0000-0001-7754-1698
Ana Paula Turetta	Lead author	Brazil	Brazil	Brazilian Agriculture Research Cooporation	0000-0002-8987-1747
Yadav Uprety	Lead author	Nepal	Nepal	Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal	0000-0003-2654-5108
Agnes Vari	Lead author	Hungary	Hungary	MTA ÖK	0000-0001-5285-847X
Petteri Vihervaara	Lead author	Finland	Finland	Finnish Environment Institute	0000-0002-5889-8402
Graham Von Maltitz	Lead author	South Africa	South Africa	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)	0000-0002-9272-1272
Maggie Munthali	Review editor	Malawi	Malawi	MwAPATA Institute	0000-0001-5369-7516
Fabio Roque	Review editor	Brazil
Ina Helene Ahlquist	Fellow	Norway	Norway	SINTEF Ocean	0009-0009-1563-4085
Yann Voisin	Fellow	France	France Canada	Sorbonne Nouvelle University	0000-0002-3661-7454

Chapter 4: Options for strengthening the capacity to monitor biodiversity worldwide
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Amani Al Assaf	Coordinating lead author	Jordan	Jordan	University of Jordan- Shcool of Agriculture	0000-0003-2482-535X
Frank Muller Karger	Coordinating lead author	United States of America	United States of America	University of South Florida / College of Marine Science
Henrique Pereira	Coordinating lead author	Germany	Portugal	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON)	0000-0003-1043-1675
Cem İskender AYDIN	Lead author	Türkiye	Türkiye	Boğaziçi University	0000-0002-8071-8789
Ricardo Castro-Diaz	Lead author	National University of Colombia	Colombia	National University of Colombia	0000-0001-7089-5485
Maria Grigoratou	Lead author	Mercator Ocean International	Greece	European Polar Board (EPB)	0000-0003-0484-1408
Ana Lara Lopez	Lead author	Mexico	Mexico Australia	IOC-UNESCO	0000-0003-2896-1367
Hiroyuki Muraoka	Lead author	Japan	Japan
Sian Rees	Lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland		0000-0001-9606-783X
Julia Touza	Lead author	Spain	Spain	University of York	0000-0001-8170-1789
Mireia Valle	Lead author	Spain	Spain	AZTI & NCEAS National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis	0000-0001-8517-8518
Michele Walters	Lead author	South Africa	South Africa	Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)	0000-0001-8302-3408
Abe Woo	Lead author	Malaysia		Centre for Marine and Coastal (CEMACS), Universiti Sains Malaysia	0000-0002-7016-6466
Satoshi Yamamoto	Lead author	Japan	Japan	National Agriculture and Food Research Organization	0000-0003-0123-9112
Polyanna da Conceição Bispo	Review editor	The University of Manchester	Brazil	University of Manchester	0000-0003-0247-8449
Richard Field	Review editor	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	University of Nottingham	0000-0003-2613-2688
Barbora Chmelova	Fellow	Czechia	Czechia	Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic	0000-0002-3443-8401
Paul Kazaba	Fellow	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Democratic Republic of the Congo	University of Lubumbashi	0000-0001-7366-3647

Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel representatives
Name	Role	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Bishwa Nath Oli	Bureau task force/expert group member	Nepal		000000023826
Yongyut Trisurat	Bureau task force/expert group member	Thailand	Kasetsart University
Markus Fischer	MEP task force/expert group member	Switzerland	University of Bern
Dorothy Nyingi	MEP task force/expert group member	Kenya	National Museums of Kenya
Ning Wu	MEP task force/expert group member	China	Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Technical Support Unit
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Tanara Renard Truong Van Nga	Technical support unit		France	IGES - IAS-TSU