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Richard Aspinall
Focus: Interdisciplinary aspects of land use and related change - particularly in rural areas - and set within the context of sustainable development
Languages Spoken: English
Institution: The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK

Andre Bationo
Focus: Soil Chemistry, Agronomy
Languages Spoken: English, French
Institution: Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT, Kenya

Prof. Dr. Frans Berkhout
Focus: Nuclear fuel cycle, Radioactive waste management, Technology Innovation and Sustainablility, Policy and sustainability, Measurement of sustainability performance, Futures scenarios studies, Business adaptation to environmental change, and Policy frameworks for innovation and the environment.
Languages: English, Dutch
Institute: IHDP's Project, Industrial Transformation; and the Institute for Environmental Studies: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Gilberto Camara
Focus: Geographical information science and engineering, spatial databases, spatial analysis and environmental modelling
Languages Spoken: English, Portugese
Institution: National Institute for Space Research – INPE, Brazil

Dr. Pep Canadell
Focus: Carbon sources and sinks, carbon trends, emission drivers, carbon mitigation options, vulnerability of the carbon cycle, carbon-climate feedbacks
Language Spoken: English, Catalan, Spanish
Institution: Global Carbon Project; CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Dr. John Church
Focus: Sea Level Rise, Climate Change
Languages Spoken: English

Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko
Focus: Environmental security, Environment and conflict, Environmental peacebuiliding, Climate change and security
Languages: English
Institute: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Sandra Diaz
Focus: Mutual links between biodiversity, ecosystem services and global environmental change
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Institution: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba and CONICET, Argentina)

Dr. Michail Fragkias
Focus: urbanization, global environmental change, urban land-use change, urban growth modeling, urban spatial structure and the environment
Languages Spoken: English, Greek
Institution: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project, Arizona State University

Helmut Haberl
Focus: Human ecology, sustainable development, human appropriation of net primary production, land-use and land-cover change, energy analysis, energy and the environment, colonization of nature, ecological footprints
Languages Spoken: English, German
Institution: Institute for Social Ecology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Liu Jiyuan
Focus: Resources and environmental remote sensing and geo-information science
Languages Spoken: English, Chinese
Institution: Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Gernot Klepper
Focus: Climate Policy, Economic Modelling, Economics of Climate Change, Land Use Change and Climate, Environmental Policy Instruments
Languages Spoken: German English
Institution: Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Dr. Andrea Lampis
Focus: Vulnerability and Inequality, Vulnerability in Bogota
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish
Institute: IHDP's Urbanization and Global Environmental Challenge (UGEC)

Sandra Lavorel
Focus: Plant community and landscape ecology
Languages Spoken: English, French
Institution: Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université J. Fourier, France

Cheikh Mbow
Focus: Fire risk assessment, fire detection and impacts, vegetation dynamics (including carbon stocks dynamics) in savanna ecosystem using remote sensing and GIS.
Languages Spoken: English, French
Institution: Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement ; Laboratoire d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Géomatique (LERG), Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP) Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, SÉNÉGAL

Dr. Carlos Nobre
Focus: Climate Change, Tropical Meteorology, Amazon, Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, Climate Modeling
Languages Spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Institution: IGBP; ESSP, Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE); Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (INPE)

Prof. Karen O'Brien
Focus:Global Environmental Change; Human Security; Climate Change; Vulnerability; Adaptation; Resilience; Globalization; Double Exposure; Limits to Adaptation; Social Contracts; Norway; India; Southern Africa.
Languages: English
Institute: Chair, IHDP's GECHS Project; University of Oslo

Dennis Ojima
Focus: Understanding ecosystem dynamics in relation to earth system science, in particular to changes in climate, land use, and biogeochemical cycles to natural and anthropogenic forces. Global change effects, both climate and land use changes, on ecosystem dynamics and assessments of climate change on ecosystem dynamics
Languages Spoken: English
Institution: The H John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, Washington, DC

Dawn Parker
Focus: Integrated socio-economic and biophysical models of land-use change, agent-based modeling, complexity theory, GIS, environmental and resource economics
Languages Spoken: English
Institution: Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University, USA
John Porter
Focus: Crop ecology and physiology, biological modelling and agro-ecology
Languages Spoken: English, Danish
Institution: Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Anette Reenberg
Focus: Agricultural land use systems in the semi-arid and arid tropics with special reference to desertification problems and adaptation to climate change
Languages Spoken: Danish, English, French
Institution: Insitute of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Dr. Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez
Focus:Urbanization, Global Environmental Change
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish, French, German
Institution: IHDP's Project, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change, Director, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States

Focus: urbanization, China, global environmental change
Languages Spoken: English, Cantonese
Institution: UGEC, Yale University

Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd
Focus: Urban weather-climate, mesoscale weather processes, precipitation, urban effects on rainfall patterns and storms, satellite remote sensing
Languges Spoken: English
Institution: UGEC project associate, University of Georgia

Hideaki Shibata Focus: Forest Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Hydrology, Soil science, Ecosystem functions
Languages Spoken: English, Japanese
Institution: Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan

Dr. Ram Karan Singh
Topic: Water Resources Engineering, Development, Planning and Management
Languages: English, Hindi
Institute: TERI University New Delhi

Prof. Dr. Linda Sygna
Focus: Human security, climate vulnerability and adaptation, climate adaptation and poverty reduction
Languages Spoken: Norwegian, English
Institution: Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project

Billie Turner II Focus: land-change science,dynamics of coupled human-environment systems, sustainability science, tropical deforestation
Languages Spoken: English
Institution: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA

Prof. Dr. Sander van der Leeuw
Focus: Socio-environmental dynamics, long-term system trajectories
Languages Spoken: Dutch, English, French
Institution: Vulnerability, Resilience, Adaptation; IHOPE. Institution: Arizona State University.

Tom Veldkamp Focus: Modelling of landscape processes and related land use dynamics
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch
Institution: Landscape Centre, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Dr. Hebe Vessuri
Focus: Science, technology and development; science, culture and society; academics and market relations; relevance of higher education and science in Latin America; social sciences and ethics; challenges in creation of scientific communities in contexts of underdevelopment; institutionalization processes; innovation and strategies for scientific research in Latin America; and social anthropology.
Languages: Spanish, English
Institute: Co-Chair, IHDP Scientific Committee; Director, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research

Prof. Ernst von Weizsäcker
Focus: Sustainability Development, Sustainable Business
Languages Spoken: English, German
Institution: IHDP Scientific Committee; Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science

Dr. Anna J. Wieczorek
Focus: Industrial Transformation; Transformations toward sustainability
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch
Institution: Industrial Transformation Project (IT)