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Host Committee
Co-Chairs
A. Karim Ahmed, Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut
Committee Members
Sally Archibald, Associate Professor, School of Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Sandra Diaz, Professor, Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the National University of Córdoba | Senior Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University | President, CosmosID, Inc.
Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Bill Finch, Founding Director, Paint Rock Forest Research Center
Lynda Hopkins, 5th District Supervisor, Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, California
Margaret Leinen, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego | Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences and Dean of the School of Marine Sciences
Valerie Luzadis, Professor, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York
Pablo Marquet, Professor of Ecology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Steward T.A. Pickett, Plant Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Peter Raven, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden
Carl Safina, Endowed Research Chair for Nature and Humanity, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
Raman Sukumar, Professor, Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science
William Sutherland, Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Robert Watson, Emeritus Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Michelle Wyman, Executive Director, Global Council for Science and the Environment
