Land degradation Assessment Experts

Experts

Chairs
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Luca Montanarella	Chair	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)	Italy	European Commission
Robert Scholes	Chair	South Africa	South Africa	University of the Witwatersrand	0000-0001-5537-6935

Chapter 1: Benefits to people from avoidance of land degradation and restoration of degraded land
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Judith Fisher	Coordinating lead author	Australia	Australia	Fisher Research Pty Ltd (Director and Principal Socio-ecologist) and Institute of Agriculture University of Western Australia and Curtin University and Western Australian Museum	0000-0003-1773-9832
Oumarou Malam-Issa	Review editor	Niger	Niger		0000-0001-8357-914X
Pascal Podwojewski	Review editor	France	France	Institute for Research and Development (IRD)	0000-0002-0812-5751

Chapter 2: Concepts and perceptions of land degradation and restoration
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Florent Kohler	Coordinating lead author	France	Brazil France	Université de Tours	0000-0001-8771-9226
Janne Kotiaho	Coordinating lead author	Finland	Finland	University of Jyväskylä	0000-0002-4732-784X
Shonil Bhagwat	Lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland India	The Open University	0000-0002-3237-7852
Laetitia Navarro	Lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	France	Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)	0000-0003-1099-5147
Robin Reid	Lead author	United States of America	United States of America	Colorado State University
Tao Wang	Lead author	China	China	Lab.of Desert and Desertification, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alejandro León	Review editor	Chile	Chile	Universidad de Chile	0000-0002-6742-2713
Katalin Török	Review editor	Hungary	Hungary	Centre for Ecological Research	0000-0002-5910-7027
Maylis Desrousseaux	Fellow	Environmental law institute - Lyon 3 University	France	CNAM-ESGT	0000-0002-4138-1431

Chapter 3: Direct and indirect drivers of land degradation and restoration
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Nichole Barger	Coordinating lead author	United States of America	United States of America	University of Colorado	0000-0002-8765-7974
Toby Gardner	Coordinating lead author	Sweden	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Stockholm Environment Institute	0000-0002-4007-2936
Mahesh Sankaran	Coordinating lead author	India	India	National Centre for Biological Sciences	0000-0002-1661-6542
Patrick Meyfroidt	Lead author	Belgium	Belgium	Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) & Université catholique de Louvain	0000-0002-1047-9794
Francisco Moreira	Lead author	Portugal	Portugal	Institute of Agronomy
Tiina Maileena Nieminen	Lead author	Finland	Finland	Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke	0000-0001-9553-7588
Toshiya Okuro	Lead author	Japan	Japan	The University of Tokyo
Vivek Saxena	Lead author	India	India	Government of Haryana,India
Valerie Kapos	Review editor	United States of America	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)	0000-0002-5739-8262
Neil Mckenzie	Review editor	Australia	Australia	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	0000-0003-3803-3492
Linda Broadhurst	Liaison expert	Australia	Australia	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)	0000-0002-9853-3328
Violaine Brochier	Liaison expert	France	France	Electricité de France, Research and Development	0000-0003-4439-0808
Forest Isbell	Liaison expert	United States of America	United States of America	University of Minnesota	0000-0001-9689-769X
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues	Liaison expert	Brazil	Brazil	Agriculture School-ESALQ - University of Sao Paulo
Marina Monteiro	Fellow	Universidade Federal de Goiás	Brazil	Universidade Federal de Goiás
Matthew Ross	Fellow	Duke University	United States of America		0000-0001-9105-4255

Chapter 4: Status and trends of land degradation and restoration and associated changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functions
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Stephen Prince	Coordinating lead author	UNCCD	United States of America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	University of Maryland	0000-0003-2237-1884
Graham Von Maltitz	Coordinating lead author	UNCCD	South Africa	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)	0000-0002-9272-1272
Fengchun Zhang	Coordinating lead author	China	China	Chinese Rearch Academy of Environmental Sciences
Charles Driscoll	Lead author	Syracuse University	United States of America	Syracuse University	0000-0003-2692-2890
Gil Eshel	Lead author	Israel	Israel	Soil Erosion Research Station, Ministry Of Agriculture & Rural Development	0000-0002-2392-3807
Guy Midgley	Lead author	South Africa	South Africa	University of Stellenbosch	0000-0001-8264-0869
David Moreno Mateos	Lead author	Spain	Spain	Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Desing, Harvard University	0000-0002-1539-5848
Chencho Norbu	Review editor	Bhutan	Bhutan	National Environment Commission
James Reynolds	Review editor	United States of America	United States of America	Duke University
Kenneth Byrne	Liaison expert	Ireland	Ireland	University of Limerick
German Kust	Liaison expert	Russian Federation	Russian Federation	Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow	0000-0003-2022-0142
Cristina Martínez-Garza	Liaison expert	Mexico	Mexico	UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS	0000-0002-9310-564X
Jean Paul Metzger	Liaison expert	Brazil	Brazil France	University of São Paulo	0000-0002-0087-5240
Mongi Sghaier	Liaison expert	Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS)	Tunisia	Institut des Régions Arides	0000-0001-9226-7172
San Thwin	Liaison expert	Myanmar	Myanmar	University of Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Bernard Nuoleyeng Baatuuwie	Fellow	University for Development Studies, Ghana	Ghana	University for Development Studies

Chapter 5: Land degradation and restoration associated with changes in ecosystem services and functions, and human well-being and good quality of life
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Barend Erasmus	Coordinating lead author	South Africa	South Africa	University of Pretoria	0000-0003-1869-8091
Matthew Potts	Coordinating lead author	University of California	United States of America	Univeristy of California, Berkeley	0000-0001-7442-3944
Sebastian Arnhold	Lead author	Germany	Germany	Ecological Services, University of Bayreuth	0000-0003-4823-4570
Simone Athayde	Lead author	Federal University of Tocantins	United States of America Brazil	Federal University of Tocantins	0000-0002-3820-6595
Tim Holland	Lead author	Canada	Canada	UC Berkeley	0000-0003-1831-0747
Eliška Krkoška Lorencová	Lead author	Global Change Research Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences	Czechia	Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Andrew Lowe	Lead author	Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network	Australia	University of Adelaide
Edson Gandiwa	Review editor	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority	0000-0003-0708-350X
Ephraim Maduhu Nkonya	Review editor	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)	United Republic of Tanzania	International Food Policy research Institute (IFRPI)	0000-0001-9348-6561
Sandra Verónica Acebey Quiroga	Liaison expert	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	Ecologia y Empresa S.R.L.	0000-0003-2525-6283
Peter Elias	Liaison expert	International Social Science Council (ISSC)	Nigeria	Department of Geography, University of Lagos	0000-0003-2175-5501
Maria Fennessy	Liaison expert	Ramsar Convention Secretariat	United States of America	Kenyon College
Chuluun Togtohyn	Liaison expert	Mongolia	Mongolia	National University of Mongolia

Chapter 6: Responses to avoid land degradation and restore degraded land
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Ram Pandit	Coordinating lead author	Nepal	Nepal	The University of Western Australia	0000-0003-4053-5694
John Parrotta	Coordinating lead author	United States of America	United States of America	International Union of Forest Research Organizations
Emilie Coudel	Lead author	France	France	French agricultural research and international cooperation organization (CIRAD)	0000-0001-8272-8051
James Harris	Lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Cranfield University	0000-0001-9266-4979
Douglas Karlen	Lead author	United States of America	United States of America	USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) -- Retired	0000-0001-6995-488X
Ádám Kertész	Lead author	Hungary	Hungary	Geographical Institute, Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Juana Mariño De Posada	Lead author	Colombia Alexander von Humboldt Institute	Colombia	Independent	0000-0002-4736-8457
Daniel Vieira	Lead author	Brazil	Brazil	Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)	0000-0002-2709-5308
Susan Galatowitsch	Review editor	Ramsar Convention Secretariat	United States of America	University of Minnesota
Florencia Montagnini	Review editor	United States of America	Argentina United States of America	Yale School of Forestry and environmental Studies
Yaakov Anker	Liaison expert	Samaria and the Jordan Rift R&D center	Israel	The department of Chemical Engineering and the Eastern R&D center, Ariel University	0000-0003-4747-0774
Cristóbal Félix Diaz Morejón	Liaison expert	Cuba	Cuba	Environmental Directorate, Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment
Noraini Mohd Tamin	Liaison expert	Malaysia	Malaysia	University of Malaysia
Phumza Ntshotsho	Liaison expert	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) South Africa	South Africa	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research	0000-0001-9413-5480
Ruishan Chen	Fellow	Hohai University	China	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	0000-0002-7221-8784

Chapter 7: Scenarios of land degradation and restoration
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Matthew Cantele	Coordinating lead author	United States of America	United States of America	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ben Ten Brink	Coordinating lead author	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	PBL-Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Aletta Bonn	Lead author	Germany	Germany	Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)	0000-0002-8345-4600
Miguel Fernandez Trigoso	Lead author	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network – GEO BON	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)	0000-0002-8301-1340
Nathanial Matthews	Lead author	Canada	Canada	Global Resilience Partnership	0000-0002-1512-1142
Joe Morris	Lead author	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Cranfield University
Machteld Schoolenberg	Lead author	Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency	0000-0002-8940-0291
Petr Havlik	Review editor	Czechia	Czechia	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)	0000-0001-5551-5085
Yoshiki Yamagata	Review editor	Japan	Japan	National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)	0000-0001-5111-8912
Wilson Ramirez Hernandez	Liaison expert	Alexander von Humboldt Institute	Colombia	Alexander von Humboldt Institute
Vanessa Marie Adams	Fellow	University of Queensland	United States of America Australia	University of Tasmania, Discipline of Geography and Spatial Sciences

Chapter 8: Decision support to address land degradation and support restoration of degraded land
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Grace Nangendo	Coordinating lead author	Uganda	Uganda	Wildlife Conservation Society	0000-0002-5405-2530
Louise Willemen	Coordinating lead author	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	ITC University of Twente, Netherlands	0000-0003-1026-5865
Nana Bolashvili	Lead author	Georgia	Georgia	Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University	0000-0001-9854-2614
David Douterlungne	Lead author	Mexico	Belgium	CONACyT and IPICyT	0000-0001-8254-7875
Alexandra Langlais	Lead author	France	France
Prasanta Mishra	Lead author	India	India	International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)	0000-0003-0594-6105
Lindsay Stringer	Lead author	UNCCD	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	University of York	0000-0003-0017-1654
Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion	Review editor	Brazil	Brazil	Universidade de São Paulo	0000-0001-8245-4062
Mary Kathryn Seely	Review editor	United States of America	United States of America	Desert Research Foundation of Namibia
Mekuria Argaw Denboba	Liaison expert	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa University	0000-0001-6697-6709
Jayne Belnap	Liaison expert	United States of America	United States of America	U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center	0000-0001-7471-2279
Ulf Molau	Liaison expert	Sweden	Sweden	University of Gothenburg
Sugeng Budiharta	Fellow	Indonesian Institute Of Sciences	Indonesia	Research Center for Ecology and Ethnobiology, National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN)	0000-0002-5350-2966

Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel representatives
Name	Role	Nominating government/organisation	Nationality(ies)	Affiliation	ORCID Identifier
Rashad Allahverdiyev	Bureau task force/expert group member		Azerbaijan	Khazar University	0000-0002-0295-2377
Fundisile Goodman Mketeni	Bureau task force/expert group member		South Africa	South African National Parks
Günay Erpul	MEP task force/expert group member		Türkiye	Ankara University	0000-0002-3797-6969
Yi Huang	MEP task force/expert group member		China	Centre of Environmental Sciences, Peking University
Marie Roué	MEP task force/expert group member		France	Laboratory of Eco-anthropology and Ethnobiology, National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)	0000-0002-1471-0375
Leng Guan Saw	MEP task force/expert group member		Malaysia	Forest Research Institute Malaysia	0000-0002-7170-7922