Take a look at IUCN experts and their areas of expertise in the following fields:
IUCN experts
Species
Jane Smart: Global Director, IUCN Biodiversity Conservation Group and Director, IUCN Global Species Programme
Expertise: Convention on Biological Diversity, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, plant conservation …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Jean-Christophe Vié: Deputy Head, IUCN Species Programme, Director, Save Our Species Initiative
Expertise: Species conservation, biodiversity assessments, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, primates, Arabian oryx, Neotropical species (marine turtles, manatees, giant otters, primates, snakes) …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Simon Stuart: Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
Areas of expertise: Species conservation, species extinction crisis, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, biodiversity assessments, environmental sustainability …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Forest and climate change
Stewart Maginnis: Global Director, IUCN Forest and Climate Change Programme, Nature based Solutions Group
Expertise: forest conservation and management, rural poverty reduction and forests, forest law enforcement and governance, forest rights and tenure, forest landscape restoration, the role of forest management in biodiversity conservation. …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Marine
Carl Gustaf Lundin: Director, IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme
Expertise: marine protected areas, conservation of ecosystems and endangered marine species, sustainable fisheries management, climate change effects on marine resources, ocean governance, offshore marine energy, marine invasive species, polar issues, coastal Livelihoods, coastal carbon sequestration, oil spills, marine industries, pollution, marine policy …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
François Simard: Deputy Director and Senior Advisor for Fisheries, IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme
Expertise: fisheries, marine sustainability, Marine Protected Areas, ocean governance, aquaculture. …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Dan Laffoley: Principal Advisor on Marine Science and Conservation, IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme
Expertise: ocean conservation, coastal carbon sinks, climate change and ocean acidification. …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Water
Mark Smith: Director, IUCN Global Water Programme
Expertise: water, environment and development, water policy, water and climate change, food security, governance, resilience. …
10 Dec 2012 | Article
World Heritage
Tim Badman: Director, IUCN World Heritage Programme
Expertise: The World Heritage Convention, conservation of geological sites …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Cyril F. Kormos: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Vice Chair for World-Heritage
Expertise: protected areas, wilderness law and policy, world heritage, climate policy, forestry policy, biodiversity offsets, conservation finance and extractive industries. …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Protected Areas
Trevor Sandwith: Director, IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme
Expertise: protected areas, social and economic development, biodiversity and climate change policy …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Ernesto Enkerlin: Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Areas of expertise: Protected areas, ecosystem services, sustainability, biodiversity stewardship, rural development, land/seascape level conservation, developing country perspectives, parrot ecology, ecological restoration, species recovery plans, environmental policy. …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Business and biodiversity
Gerard Bos: Head of IUCN Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Expertise: business and biodiversity, sustainable development, Public-Private-NGO relationships …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Giulia Carbone: Deputy Head, IUCN Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
Areas of expertise: tourism, extractives, industry initiatives, standard setting processes …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Ecosystems
Edmund Barrow: Head, Global Ecosystem Management Programme
Expertise: Red List of Ecosystems, Ecosystem based Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Drylands, Community Based Natural Resource Management (including community forest management, governance and rights), Dryland Forest and natural resource management, conservation and poverty, participatory and empowering approaches to conservation …
12 Dec 2012 | Article
Science and knowledge
Thomas Brooks: Head, Science and Knowledge
Areas of expertise: biodiversity conservation, species extinction, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, Protected Areas, ornithology, geography, ecology, evolutionary biology …
14 Dec 2012 | Article
Policy
Cyriaque N. Sendashonga: Global Director, IUCN Policy and Programme Group
Expertise: international conservation policy, UN Convention on Biological Diversity, natural resource management, zoology, biotechnology. …
11 Dec 2012 | Article
Social Policy
Gonzalo Oviedo: Senior Advisor, IUCN Social Policy Programme
Areas of expertise: social policy, indigenous and traditional peoples, community-based management of natural resources, social and cultural aspects of nature conservation, traditional ecological knowledge, protected areas, environmental education, human rights, local governance. …
14 Dec 2012 | Article
Gender
Lorena Aguilar: Senior Advisor, IUCN Gender Programme
Areas of expertise: social and gender policy, sustainable and equitable human development, water, environmental health, gender and community participation, public policy development …
14 Dec 2012 | Article
