Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World
Planning Committee and Advisory Committee

Planning Committee

Alonso Aquirre
Vice President for Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Trust

Lenoard Berry
Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Florida Atlantic University

Lakhdar Boukerrou
Research Programs Coordinator, Center for Environmental Science , Florida Atlantic University

Michael Bowers
National Program Leader- Ecology, Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service (CSREES), US Department of Agriculture

Glen Contreras
National Program Leader for Fish/Aquatics Research, US Forest Service

Dominick Della Sala
Executive Director, Conservation Science & Policy Programs, National Center for Conservation Science & Policy

John Curnutt
Regional Wildlife Ecologist, US Department of Agriculture- Forest Service

Sidney Draggan
Senior Science, and Science Policy Advisor 

Jane Elder
Principal, Jane Elder Strategies

Gustavo Fonseca
Team Leader, Natural Resources Management, Global Environment Facility

Mary Gant
Program Analyst, National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences

Margaret Goud Collins
Program Director, National Academies

Sue Haseltine 
Associate Director for Biology, US Geological Survey

Elaine Hoagland
Independent Consultant 

Tom Lovejoy 
President, Heniz Center

James Manolis
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Dan Martin 
Senior Managing Director, Conservation International

Bill Millan 
Senior Policy Advisor for International Conservation, The Nature Conservancy

Toral Patel-Weynand 
USGS- National Program Office

Jason Patlis 
Vice President and Managing Director, US Government Relations, World Wildlife Fund

Montira Pongsiri
US EPA

Ron Pulliam 
Regents Professor, Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia

George Rabb 
Director Emeritus, Brookfield Zoo

Kathryn Saterson
Assistant Lab Director for Ecosystem Protection and Global Change, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory- EPA

Nathalie Valette-Silver
NOAA

John Waugh
Senior Multilateral Relations Officer IUCN

John Wiens 
Chief Conservation Science Officer, PRBO Conservation Science

Advisory Committee

Elizabeth Chadri
MacArthur Foundation

Eileen Crist
Professor, Virginia Tech

Martha Garcia
US Geological Survey

Josh Ginsberg
Wildlife Conservation Society

Barry Gold
Marine Conservation Initiative Lead, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Francesca Grifo
Director, Scientific Integrity Program, Union Concerned Scientists

Chris Haney
Conservation Scientist, Defenders of Wildlife

William Jordan, III 
Director, Institute for Nature and Culture

Lynne Murdock 
Interpretive Liaison, National Park Service

John Nordgren 
Program Officer, The Kendall Foundation

Walter Reid 
Director, David and Lucille Packard Foundation

Tom Smith 
Acting Director, Institute of the Environmental, University of California- Los Angeles

Jorge Soberon 
Senior Scientist, The University of Kansas

Andrew Taber
Executive VP for Programs, Wildlife Trust