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« Jonathan Hughes is the CEO of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, Scotland’s leading environmental charity, and an elected global Councillor of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s oldest and largest conservation organisation. Since being fascinated by wildlife from the age of four, Jonathan has devoted his life to helping create a world where nature and people prosper together. Throughout his career he has pioneered new ideas in nature conservation, challenged received wisdom and focused on turning words into action.
In 2013, Jonathan co-founded the World Forum on Natural Capital, a global initiative led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust in partnership with United Nations Environment, IUCN, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Natural Capital Coalition. The UN has said of the World Forum that it has ‘been successful in creating an awareness of the critical role natural capital plays for the economy, including for business and finance’.
Jonathan also is a non-Executive Director of Corrour Estate, board member of the government agency Architecture and Design Scotland and scientific advisor to the European Outdoor Conservation Association.
In his spare time, Jonathan plays squash competitively, if averagely, and getting out in the wilds to pursue his interests in natural history and landscape. He is also passable amateur Italian Renaissance art historian.
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Dr. Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, UN Environment Programme, Director and Regional Representative for Africa is a national of Benin. Dr. Koudenoukpo has a wealth of experience in international development assistance and 26 years of experience in environmental projects and programmes management. She has worked with a wide range of international organizations, including UNDP and IUCN, Stockholm Environment Institute, and leading international institutions working in the area of environment, addressing sustainable development and poverty reduction. She has been involved in multi-country project design, development, management and resource mobilization in numerous countries within Western, Southern, Eastern, and Central Africa.

From 2007 to 2008 she held the position of Minister of Environment and Nature Protection for the Benin government. She also used to be Acting Minister of Family and the Child.
Prior to joining UN Environment in September 2015, Dr. Koudenoukpo was with Canadian Crossroads International (CCI) where she was the Director of Programmes, and with Canadian Center for International Studies and Cooperation where she was the Regional Director for Africa.
She holds an MSc. degree in Forestry Economics, a PhD. degree in Public Policy and Administration, and an expert diploma in Renewable Energy.

With his horticultural background Gerald Schmilewski entered the world of peatlands and peat as a researcher at the German Peat Research Institute. Scientific and practical experience with a number of companies, universities and institutes, in combination with his curiosity and inquisitive nature deepened his knowledge in peat and peatland science, giving him the opportunity to engage in a number of related tasks and duties.

Johannes leads the secretariat for the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), a unique alliance of member nations, research institutions, conservation organizations, United Nations agencies and private supporters that is based at UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) headquarters in Nairobi.
Johannes has a Diploma degree in animal ecology and has held scientific positions in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. He was co-director of the Tai Monkey Project in Cote d’Ivoire, and the results of his PhD work in 2001 resulted in a Research Conservation Award from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques.
Johannes relocated to East Africa in 2005, and worked as a programme manager for the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), then joined GRASP in 2006. He is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Primate Specialist Group and the IUCN Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group. He has a wide experience in natural resource management (NRM) and assisted GTZ (German Techncial Cooperation), IGCP, WWF and UNEP in designing, supervising and implementing NRM projects.
Johannes has visited many great ape range states in Africa and Asia, and the GRASP great apes photo exhibition “Their Fate is Ours: the Humanity of Great Apes” features his pictures and tours around African great ape range states and European donor countries.

Conservation and management of biodiversity specialist, currently working with the National Service of Protected Areas of Peru, Machupicchu Historical Sanctuary. Work previously done on mapping ecosystems in the Andes and Amazon regions of Cusco and Madre de Dios, including Andean peatlands (which are locally named as oqhonales) and in using this information in land planning use and management; also in designing conservation areas and in managing cultural landscapes.

Après de mon doctorat unique en 2010 sur l’apport des stocks de carbone dans les forêts galeries des plateaux batékés, j’ai travaillé pendant deux ans pour le projet WRI et Winrock sur les quantifications des émissions de CO2 provenant de la déforestation et de la dégradation forestière en République du Congo.

Depuis 2015, je suis assistant professeur à l’université Marien N’Gouabi de Brazzaville. En dehors de travaux de recherche sur les tourbières avec l’université de Leeds, je conduis actuellement le projet de recherche sur le suivi par télédéction de la déforestation et de la dégradation due à la croissance urbaine de quelques localités forestiers, impact sur la biodiversite et le stock de carbone. Auteurs de plusieurs publications, j’ai déjà assuré l’encadrement de plusieurs memoires de Master et participe à l’encadrement des thèses.