ECNC Board

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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 Prof. drMustafa Kemal Yalınkılıç Former Director-General of the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry Turkey
	Treasurer Dr Jan Rammeloo Director of the National Botanic Garden Belgium
	Secretary Mr Rob Wolters Executive Director of ECNC

Members

• Ms Ivonne Higuero, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Europe
• Prof. Alexander Leonidovich Zamuraev, Director of the All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection, Russian Federation
• Dr Sjur Baardsen, Chairman ECNC’s Scientific Council, Associate Professor at University of Life Sciences, Norway
• 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
• Ms Helen Phillips, Director of Customer Service and Networks, Yorkshire Water; former Chief Executive Natural England, United Kingdom
• Mr Béla Jankovich de Jeszenice, Owner of Amber Investment and Managing Director of Jankovich Birtok estate, Hungary
• Ms Ivana Vojinovic, Deputy Minister at Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Montenegro

Honorary board members and ambassadors

• Ms Niki Goulandris-Kefala, former ECNC Vice-President, Greece
• Dr Antonio Machado, former ECNC President, Spain
• Dr János Tardy, former ECNC Vice-President, Hungary
• Mr Ronald Loudon, former ECNC Vice-President, the Netherlands

observers

• Director of the Department of Nature of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, represented by Mr Rob van Brouwershaven, Director for Nature and Biodiversity
• Dr Philip Buckley, Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Ireland
• Mr Gabriel Schwaderer, Executive Director, European Nature Heritage Fund (EuroNatur), Germany