Commission Chair. Anthropologist specialized in Land Geography and Evaluation, with a MsC in Land Ecology from ITC - University of Twente, NL. She has over 30 years of professional experience in ...
CEM Steering Committee Members
The SC provides leadership and guides the development and implementation of the CEM’s work. It also works to facilitate the establishment of CEM's Thematic and Specialist Groups, Task Forces, identify and initiate fundraising opportunities, strengthen partnerships and promote membership. All members of the SC have also been assigned multiple Thematic and Specialist Groups that they are responsible for. CEM holds two SC meetings every year, and where possible does so in conjunction with a related workshop.

Ms Angela ANDRADE PEREZ
Dr Liette VASSEUR
Deputy Chair. Dr. Vasseur is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Brock University where she is also a member of the Women and Gender Studies program and the Environmental ...
Dr Doris MUTTA
Vice Chair Africa.
Dr Doris Mutta is a Senior Programme Officer at the African Forest Forum (AFF) in Nairobi, Kenya. An experienced natural resources scientist with a demonstrated history of working ...
Mr Jonathan HUGHES
Vice Chair Europe. Jonny is currently WCMC Chief Executive Officer at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and former chair of the Cambridge Conservation ...
Dr Bernal HERRERA-FERNÁNDEZ
Vice Chair for Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Bernal Herrera-Fernández is an Associate Professor at the International Institute for Wildlife Conservation and Management, National University of ...
Dr Peter SMITH
Vice Chair Oceania. I have spent more than 30 years in environmental management with a particular emphasis on biodiversity conservation and climate change. For most of this century I was first a ...
Dr Shalini DHYANI
Vice Chair Asia. Dr. Shalini Dhyani is a Senior Scientist with the Critical Zone Group of Water Technology and Management Division in CSIR-NEERI, India. She is South Asia Regional Chair for IUCN CEM ...