Workshop on

International Science-Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity Governance Needs, Challenges, Experiences A Contribution to the Consultative Process towards an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB) held in Leipzig, Germany 2-4 October 2006

Workshop Participants Mr José Achache GEO Secretariat 7 bis, avenue de la Paix Case postale 2300 CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Tel.: +41 22 730 8505 Fax: +41 22 730 8520 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.earthobservations.org/about/entities/about_secretariat.html Since 1997 José Achache is director of the Research Division of the French Geological Survey (BRGM). In 1999, he was named advisor to the President of the French Space Agency (CNES) and in 2000, was appointed to the post of Deputy Director General for Science. In 2002 he was appointed Director of the Group Earth Observation (GEO) for the European Space Agency (ESA). While at ESA, he initiated the GMES programme in partnership with the European Commission. Mr Steinar Andresen The Fridtjof Nansen Institute P.O. Box 326 1326 Lysaker Norway Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.statsvitenskap.uio.no/ansatte/presentasjon/vit/no/steia.html Steinar Andresen is Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo (UiO). His research focuses on international agreements, - regimes and international organizations, especially in the area of environment, but also international resource policy and international health issues.

Mr Didier Babin IMoSEB / Executive Secretariat TA 10 / B Campus International de Baillarguet 34398 Montpellier cedex 5 France Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.imoseb.net/general_overview/the_executive_secretariat Mr Didier Babin is researcher at the Institut Français de la Biodiversité, France's SBSTTA National Focal Point and Executive Secretary of IMoSEB. Ms Gordana Beltram Ministry of the Environment and spatial planing Republic of Slovenia Dunajska cesta 48 SI- 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Email: [email protected] Ms Gordana Beltram is Slovenia’s National Focal Point of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD) and the National Focal Point to the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) to the CBD. Mr Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Environmental Protection Authority PO Box 30231 Addis Ababa Ethopia

E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.rightlivelihood.org/recip/egziabher.htm

Mr Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher is General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia, involved into the negotiations of the CBD and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR). Mr Peter Bridgewater Secretary General Ramsar Convention Avenue du Mont Blanc CH-1196 Gland Switzerland Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ramsar.org/photo/photo_bureau_peb.htm Secretary General of Ramsar Wetlands Convention, Member of the Science and Technology Advisory panel to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) (1998-2000), Member of the International Steering Committee (ISC) of the IMoSEB

Mr Pierre Devillers Scientific Counsellor to CMS Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique Rue Vautier 29 B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgium Tel: +32 02 627 43 48 Fax: +32 02 649 48 25 Email: [email protected] Mr Pierre Devillers is working at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, is scientific advisor to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and former president of the scientific advisory body to the CMS. Mr Chimere Diaw IITA Humid Forest Ecoregional Center BP 2008 Yaounde Cameroon Email: [email protected]

Mr Chimere Diaw is researcher at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Cameroon, Co-Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), and Member of the Board of Review Editors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA).

Mr Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina UNC-CH Anthropology Department 301 Alumni Bldg. CB#3115 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115 USA Email: [email protected] Web: http://anthropology.unc.edu/people/faculty/faculty.2005-09-30.1709106572 Mr Arturo Escobar is Professor at University of North Carolina focusing on political ecology, anthropology of development, social movements, and science and technology; Latin America; Colombia

Mr Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt. 5 Shree Dutta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004 Email: [email protected]