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Note: Members of groups within the Specialist Group, and members of the Specialist Group who serve as liaison with other IUCN commissions, are indicated as follows:

(s) Steering Committee

(u) Working Group on Urban Protected Areas

(ubr) Advisory Group on the Biosphere Reserve Concept and Urban Areas

(d) Dark Skies Advisory Group

(m) Advisory Group on Mediterranean-type Regions 

(cec) Liaison with IUCN Commission on Education and Communication

(cel) Liaison with IUCN Commission on Environmental Law

(cem) Liaison with IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management

(ceesp) Liaison with Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy

(ssc) Liaison with IUCN Species Survival Commission

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Mónica Acuña, University for Peace, San José, Costa Rica

Gideon Amboga, Kenya Wildlife Service (retired), Nakuru, Kenya (u)

Amir Balaban, Jerusalem Bird Observatory, Jerusalem, Israel (m)

Tasneem Balasinorwala, Pune Tree Watch, Pune, Maharashtra, India

James R. (Jim) Barborak, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Steve Bender, consultant; formerly Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., USA (m)

Alfred Bernhard, Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia (u)

Sarah M. Bexell, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Erach Bharucha, surgeon; Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environmental Studies, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Héctor Ceballos-Lascuráin, architect; Programme of International Consultancy on Ecotourism, Mexico City, Mexico (m)

Richard Cellarius, Sierra Club, Prescott, Arizona, USA (ceesp)

Bruno Charlier, Laboratoire Societé Environnement Territoire, Université de Pau, Pau, France (d)

Nicholas Conner, Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier and Cabinet, State of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Bob Conroy, New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation, Sydney, NSW, Australia (u)

Pedro da Cunha e Menezes, Brazilian Diplomat, currently Brazilian Consul, Cape Town, South Africa; formerly Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Deputy Chair, Urban Specialist Group (s) (u)

John Davidson, InterClimate Network, London and Cheltenham, England, UK, Deputy Chair, Urban Specialist Group (s)(m)(u)

George Davis, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa; Deputy Chair, Urban Specialist Group (s)(m)(u)(ubr)

Peter Dogse, UNESCO, Paris, France (ubr)

Michael R. Eaton, Kingbird Farms, Galt, California, USA; formerly Resources Legacy Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the California Natural Resources Agency (m)

Joseph T. Edmiston, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Malibu, California, USA (m)(u)

Ron Engel, Center for Humans and Nature; founder and former Chair, IUCN Ethics Specialist Group; Chicago, Illinois, USA

Peter Frost, Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK (u)(ubr)

Lloyd Gardner, Environmental Support Services, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States

Karl Heinz Gaudry, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Gary Geller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/California Institute of Technology), Pasadena, California, USA (m)

Paolo Giuntarelli, Commune of Rome, Italy; formerly Roma Natura (m)(u)

David Goode, University College London; formerly Greater London Authority, London, England, UK

István Gyarmathy, Hortobagy National Park, Hungary (d)

Brahim Haddane, Fondation Mohammed VI pour la Protection de l' Environnement, Salé, Morocco (ssc)

David F. Hales, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA; formerly United States Agency for International Development

John Hearnshaw, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (d)

Monty Hempel, University of Redlands, Redlands, California, USA (m)

Lucy Hutcherson, Chicago Wilderness, Chicago, Illinois, USA (ubr)

Glen Hyman, Centre de sociologie des organisations, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), Paris, France (s)(m)(ubr); Deputy Chair, Urban Specialist Group; Urban Specialist Group Focal Point for Pan-Europe region of WCPA; liaison to ICLEI-LAB project

Gregoris Iatrou, University of Patras, Greece (m)

Peter Jacobs, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; formerly Chair, IUCN Commission on Environmental Planning

Melinda Janki, Justice Institute of Guyana; Cochair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas/Commission on Environmental Law Intercommission Task Force on Protected Areas, Georgetown, Guyana (cel)

Douwe Jan Joustra, Dutch Innovation Program on Climate Neutral Cities, Utrecht, The Netherlands (cec)

Tania Katzschner, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (m)

Elisabeth Kersten, InterEnvironment Institute; University of Southern California; formerly Senate Office of Research, California Legislature, Sacramento, California, USA (m)

Kathryn Kintzele, Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Marianne Kleiberg, Central Caribbean Program, The Nature Conservancy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Dan Laffoley, IUCN/WCPA Marine, c/o Natural England, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Tanya Layne, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa (m)(u)

Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group, Los Angeles, California, USA (d)

Josef Leitmann, World Bank, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (u)

Louise Lézy-Bruno, Institut Libertas, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France

Kenny Lynch, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England, UK

Jeffrey A. McNeely, Senior Science Advisor, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Gland, Switzerland

Linda McMillan, McMillan Associates; Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme; IUCN/WCPA Mountains Theme, San Rafael, California, USA (m)

Daniel A. Mazmanian, School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Todd Miller, Canaan Valley Institute, Thomas, West Virginia, USA

Marina Mlakar, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia (m)

Xavier Monbailliu, Association Méditerranéene pour l'avifaune marine (MEDMARAVIS), Saint Maximin, France (m)

Cipriano Marin, UNESCO Centre of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (d)

Xola Mkefe, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa (m)(u)

Greg Moore, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, San Francisco, California, USA (m)(u)

Brett Myrdal, South African National Parks, Cape Town, South Africa (m)(u)

Juan José Negro, Doñana Biological Station, Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain (d)

Cristi Marie C. Nozawa, Asia Division, BirdLife International, Tokyo, Japan

Gregg Oelofse, City of Cape Town, South Africa (m)

Adrian Phillips, conservationist; former Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Cheltenham, England, UK

Joy Jacqueline Pereira, Institute for Environment and Development, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia; Commission on Geoscience for Environmental Management (GEM), International Union of Geological Sciences (u) 

Erika Pogacnik, Dark-sky Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia (d)

George Rabb, conservationist; emeritus Chicago Zoological Society; former Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Brookfield, Illinois, USA

Bachir Raissouni, Al Akhwayn University, Ifrane, Morocco (m)

Miquel Rafa, Área de Medio Ambiente de la Obra Social de Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (m)

Debra Roberts, Development Planning and Management Unit, eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa

Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester, Leicester, England, United Kingdom (d)

Philip Rundel, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA (m)

Yoav Sagi, Open Landscape Institute, Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel (m)

Bittu Sahgal, Kids for Tigers, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, India

Richard Saunier, conservationist, Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA; formerly Organization of American States

Marinez Scherer, Instituto Ambiental Ratones, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (u)(ubr)

John Senior, Parks Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (m)

David Sheppard, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Apia, Samoa; formerly Head of Protected Areas Programme, IUCN

Alexander de Sherbinin, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center; Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA

Dongwon Shin, Korea National Park Service, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Woody Smeck, Yosemite National Park, California, USA (m)(u)

Ruida Stanvliet, Western Cape Nature Conservation Board, Stellenbosch, South Africa (m)(urb)

Hernán Torres, Hernán Torres y Asociados, Santiago, Chile (m)

Karen Treviño, Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division, United States National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (d)

Ted Trzyna, InterEnvironment Institute; former Chair, IUCN Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning; former U.S. Foreign Service officer; Claremont, California, USA; Chair, Urban Specialist Group (s)(m)(u)(d)

Jorge Uribe, The Nature Conservancy, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Rodrigo Victor, Forest Institute, State of São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil (ubr)

John Waugh, consultant, former Deputy Director, IUCN Washington office, Upperville, Virginia, USA (m)

Shin Wang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Province, China

David Welch, ecosystem management and protected areas consultant, Ottawa, Canada; formerly Parks Canada (d)

Fook Yee Wong, Geography Department, University of Hong Kong; formerly Agriculture, Fisheries, and Conservation Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (u)