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[Task Force steering group and secretariat]

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Note: Members of groups within the Task Force are indicated as follows:

(s) Steering group

(ubr) Working Group on Urban Biosphere Reserves

(m) Advisory Group on Cities and Conservation in Mediterranean-type Regions 

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

Amir Balaban, Jerusalem Bird Observatory, Israel (m)

Kevin Bell, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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

Alfred Bernhard, Willoughby City Council, 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

Cristina Castel-Branco, ACB-Ltda. landscape architects; Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal (m)

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

Nicholas Conner, New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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

Pedro da Cunha e Menezes (Brazil), Brazilian Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal; formerly Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (s) (u)

Manoj Dabas, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, New Delhi, India

John Davidson, Global Dimension Trust; Development Education Association, London, England, UK (s)(m)(u)

George Davis, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa (s)(m)(u)(urb)

Peter Dogse, UNESCO, Paris, France (ubr)

Michael R. Eaton, Resources Legacy Fund, Sacramento, California, USA (m)

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

Ron Engel, Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Co-chair, Ethics Specialist Group, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law

Johnson Bade Falade, UN-HABITAT, Abuja, Nigeria

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

Juan Manuel García Caudillo, Terra Peninsular, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico (m)

Lloyd Gardner, Environmental Support Services, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States; IUCN/WCPA Task Force on Island Protected Areas.

Almudena Garrido, University of Deusto; Forum for a Sustainable Zorrozaurre, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

Gary Geller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA (m)

Paolo Giuntarelli, RomaNatura (System of Protected Natural Areas of Rome), Rome, Italy (m)(u)

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

David F. Hales, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

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

Lucy Hutcherson, Chicago Wilderness, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Glen Hyman, Centre de sociologie des organisations, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (SciencesPo),  France (m)(ubr)

Gregoris Iatrou, University of Patras, Greece (m)

Joanne Jackson, City of Cape Town, South Africa (m)

Peter Jacobs, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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

Elisabeth Kersten, California Institute of Public Affairs; formerly Senate Office of Research, California Legislature, Sacramento, California, USA (m)

Marianne Kleiberg, Baja California Sur Program, The Nature Conservancy, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Josef Leitmann, World Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia (u)

Mark Lellouch (USA/France), consultant, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

Yu-Fai Leung, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

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

Elizabeth McCance, USA

Richard McLellan, World Wide Fund for Nature – Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (m)

Linda McMillan, McMillan Associates; Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme,

San Rafael, California, USA (m)

Jala Makhzoumi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon (m)

Mario Antonio de Mello Dias, consultant, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

Jessica Memon, Milton Keynes Council, Milton Keynes, England, UK

Murel Merivee, State Nature Conservation Centre, Estonia

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)

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

Brett Myrdal, Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town, South Africa (m)(u)

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

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

Brian O’Neill, Golden Gate National Parks, San Francisco, California, USA (m)

Pamela Parker, Australian Landscape Trust, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (m)

Ankur Patwardhan, Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration (RANWA) and  Garware College; Pune, Maharashtra, India

Adrian Phillips, World Commission on Protected Areas, Dumbleton, 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) 

Velimir Pravdic, Croatian Society for Natural Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia (m)

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

Miquel Rafa, Fundacio Territori i Paisatge, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (m)

Francisco Rego, Directorate General of Forest Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Fisheries, Government of Portugal; Technical University of Lisbon;  International Society of Mediterranean Ecologists (m)

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

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, consultant, Santa Fé, New Mexico, USA

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

John Senior, Manager Strategic Partnerships, Parks Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (m)

Rebecca Shaw, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, USA (m)

Corazon C. Sinha (Philippines), University of Western Sydney, Penrith South, New South Wales, Australia

Woody Smeck, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California, USA (m)(u)

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

Anthea Stephens, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa (m)

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

Ted Trzyna, California Institute of Public Affairs, Sacramento, California, USA (s)(m)(u)

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

Rodrigo Victor, Forest Institute, State of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brazil (ubr_

John Waugh, IUCN, Washington, D.C., USA (m)

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

Joseph Warutere, Kenya Wildlife Service

Sebastian Winkler, Countdown 2010 Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium

John Wise, formerly United States Environmental Protection Agency, Berkeley, California, USA (m)

Fook Yee Wong, Agriculture, formerly Fisheries, and Conservation Department, Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region, China (u)