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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 subnational 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
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
  • Dr János Tardy, former ECNC Vice-President, Hungary

Members

  • Mr Eladio Fernández-Galiano, Head of Natural Heritage and Biological Diversity Division, Council of Europe, France
  • Ms Ivonne Higuero, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Europe
  • Mrs Kornelija Pintaric, former Director Nature Protection Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Nature, Croatia
  • Prof. Alexander Leonidovich Zamuraev, Director of the All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection, Russian Federation
  • 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, former Director-General of the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry
  • Dr Magnus Sylvén, former Chairman of the Large Herbivore Foundation, former Director of WWF Europe/Middle East Programme at WWF International, Switzerland 
  • Mr Gábor Szilágyi, former Director of Kiskunsági National Park, Hungary, EU expert for Baltic States 
  • Dr Helen Phillips, Chief Executive, Natural England, United Kingdom

Official observer from the ECNC host country

  • Director of the Department of Nature of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affaires, Agriculture and Innovation (ELI), represented by Mr P.W. Bos, Senior Officer International Nature Affairs

Observer

  • Dr Philip Buckley, Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
  • Mr Gabriel Schwaderer, Executive Director, European Nature Heritage Fund (EuroNatur), Germany