Experts

BES-Net brings together a network of experts in biodiversity and ecosystem services and offers a forum to network and learn about the latest research being undertaken in the space.

Our Experts

BES-Net counts with a pool of over 290 experts from around the world in the fields of biodiversity conservation, pollinator conservation, ecosystem-based adaptation, biodiversity finance, Indigenous and local knowledge and more. If you would like to get in touch with one of our experts, please email your request to info@besnet.world.

Dr. antoine_padonou
Profession: Research assistant
Organization: University of Abomey-Calavi,
Languages: English, French, Other
Technical field(s) of expertise: Land degradation and restoration. Involved in the IPBES assessment on Land Degradation and Restoration
Mr. Assan Ng'ombe
Profession: Resilience Officer
Organization: AGRA
Languages: English
Technical field(s) of expertise: Food systems development
Mrs. angela_andrade
Profession: Environmental Policy Director
Organization: Conservation International
Languages: English, Spanish
Technical field(s) of expertise: Ecosystem-based Adaptation; Environmental Policy; Climate Change and Biodiversity Negotiations
Mr. andrew_taber
Profession: Executive Director
Organization: The Mountain Institute
Languages: English, Spanish
Technical field(s) of expertise: Ecosystem-based Adaptation, sustainable mountain development (current Steering Committee Chair of the Mountain Partnership), biodiversity conservation, forestry, bush meat, environmental governance, capacity building
Dr. andrew_seidl
Profession: Senior Technical Advisor/Professor
Organization: UNDP-GES The Biodiversity Finance Initiative/Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University Country
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Technical field(s) of expertise: Biodiversity, Natural resources, Environmental and development economics and policy
Mr. andrew_rylance
Profession: Protected Area Finance Technical Advisor
Organization: GOS-UNDP-GEF Programme Coordination Unit
Languages: English
Technical field(s) of expertise: Protected areas; Conservation finance; Business and financial planning for conservation; Protected area system management; Payments for ecosystem services; Sustainable tourism; Value chain development
Dr. Andrew Zhai
Profession: PhD Candidate
Organization: Duke University
Languages: Chinese, English
Technical field(s) of expertise: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Conservation Policy and Protected Areas, Forestry Policy and Economics
Dr. Andrea Pacheco
Profession: Postdoctoral researcher
Organization: University of Bonn
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Technical field(s) of expertise: Land-system science, land tenure, land-use and land-use change, impact evaluation, biodiversity conservation
Dr. Anahi Espindola
Profession: Assistant Professor
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
Technical field(s) of expertise: Plant-Pollinator interactions, Effect of abiotic and Biotic environment on interactions, Phylo-geography, landscape genetics, Phylogenetics; Involved as an expert in IPBES assessment on Pollinators, Pollination and food Production.
Mr. Boglárka Amrein Tamásné Miskolczi
Profession: Bird-Human cooperations researcher, specialist in nature-based production systems
Organization: Ecological Farm and Bird-Nest Box Station
Languages: English, Other
Technical field(s) of expertise: Bird-Human cooperation systems, nature-based production systems, biodiversity, ecosystem restoration, agroecology, nature conservation, sustainable development
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