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ECNC Board

The ECNC Board is the highest decision-making organ of ECNC. The full Board is composed of persons with considerable working experience in national and sub-national policymaking fields related to conservation and sustainable use of nature and biodiversity, persons in international institutions active in European nature and biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, and persons with large relevant networks, experience and expertise, for example in science or the corporate sector.

President
Sir Brian Unwin
United Kingdom

Vice-President
Dr János Tardy
Hungary

Vice-President
Mr Ronald Loudon
the Netherlands

Treasurer
Dr Jan Rammeloo
Director of the National Botanic Garden
Belgium

Secretary
Mr Rob Wolters
Executive Director of ECNC

Honorary board members
  • Ms Niki Goulandris-Kefala, former ECNC Vice-President, Greece
  • Dr Antonio Machado, former ECNC President, Spain

Members

  • Mr Eladio Fernández-Galiano, Head of Natural Heritage and Biological Diversity Division, Council of Europe, France
  • Prof. Dr P.A. Gerakis, Director, Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre, Greece
  • Ms. Ivonne Higuero, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Europe
  • Ms. Kornelija Pintaric, Director Nature Protection Directorate, Ministry of Culture, Croatia
  • Prof. Alexander Leonidovich Zamuraev, Director of the All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection, Russian Federation
  • Mr Carlos Martin-Novella, Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Environment of Spain
  • Mr Bart Jan Krouwel, former Director of Sustainability and Social Innovations, Rabobank, the Netherlands
  • Mr Robert Lamb, Senior Policy Advisor, International Affairs Division, Swiss Agency of Environment, Forests and Landscape, Switzerland
  • Dr Sjur Baardsen, Chairman ECNC's Scientific Council, University of Life Sciences, Norway
  • Prof. dr Mustafa Kemal Yalinkiliç, Director-General of the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry
  • Mr Gábor Szilágyi, former Director of Kiskunsági National Park, Hungary, EU expert for Baltic States 

Official observer from the ECNC host country

  • Director of the Department of Nature of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (ANF), represented by Mr P.W. Bos, Senior Officer International Nature Affairs

Observer

  • Dr Philip Buckley, Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Ireland