The advisory board is comprised of international experts from the arena of integrated land use planning. To develop a workshop series which adequately addresses current gaps and needs for actors in the land use planning field across the globe, the advisory board members guide the workshop implementation with advice and decisions regarding the thematic design and focus of the workshops.
André Kooiman
Senior Sustainable Land Management Specialist at ISRIC, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Elif Sertel
Professor of Geomatics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Hakki Erdogan
Senior Land Management Advisor at FAO, Rome, Italy
Jennilee Kohima
Spatial Planning Lecturer, Windhoek, Namibia
Marijana Kapović-Solomun
Dean of the Faculty of Forestry University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Matthias Hack
Planning officer at the regional authority of Southern Hessia, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Oksana Davis
Secretary of Ukrainian Soil Partnership Association, Kyiv, Ukraine
Silvia Ronchi
Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Vincent Byendaimira
Director of Physical Planning and Urban Development at the Ministry of Land, Housing & Urban Development, Kampala, Uganda
Xiaosong Li
Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Thatheva Saphangthong
Deputy General Director of the Department of Agricultural Land Management, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Laos, Vientiane
Patrick Watson
Senior Director Hazard Mitigation and Risk Management at Ministry of Local Government & Community Development, Kingston, Jamaica
Clifford Amaoko
Associate Professor at the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Guided by common observations about current action gaps in integrated land use planning, and the potential it offers to bring forward the Sustainable Development Goals, GEO-LDN, WOCAT, ELD, UNCCD and FAO have partnered up to kick-off this joint S4ILUP process. Key representatives of these partner organizations come together to find the right scope and regularly exchange for a successful implementation of the workshop series.
Peter Verburg
Scientific member for the SPI of UNCCD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Barron Orr
Lead Scientist at UNCCD, Bonn, Germany
Sara Minelli
Project Officer at UNCCD, Bonn, Germany
Feras Ziadat
Land Resources Officer at FAO, Rome, Italy
Tatenda Lemann
Executive Team Member at WOCAT, Bern, Switzerland
Antje Hecheltjen
Co-Chair at the GEO-LDN initiative, Bonn, Germany
Alex Zvoleff
Working Group Lead at the GEO-LDN initiative, Washington D.C., United States
Paul Sutton
Professor at the Department of Geography at University of Denver, Denver, United States
Nina Bisom
ELD Secretariat Coordinator, Bonn, Germany
Pedro Lara Almuedo
Programme Officer at the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, Bonn, Germany
Erkan Guler
Associate Programme Officer at UNCCD, Bonn, Germany
The organizing team helps to realize a successful process, from the initial idea to the workshop implementation and beyond. It takes over the coordination between the advisory board and the partner organizations, the preparation of background documents and the facilitation of a workshop series in which every participant can share their knowledge in a meaningful way.
Michael Tighe
Virtual Leadership and Facilitation specialist, Wuppertal, Germany
Fernanda Lessa Ribeiro
Intern at GEO-LDN Initiative, Bonn, Germany
Lena Moral Waldmeier
Junior Advisor Stakeholder Engagement at GEO-LDN Initiative, Bonn, Germany
Jonas Hansohm
Junior Advisor at GEO-LDN Initiative, Bonn, Germany
Hanna Albrecht
Project Manager at the ELD Initiative, Bonn, Germany