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Marlène Elias


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Marlène Elias is a gender specialist in conservation and management of forest genetic resources at Bioversity International. Her efforts focus on coordinating gender-specific research projects, mainstreaming gender institutionally, and strengthening the capacities of Bioversity International staff to conduct participatory, gender-responsive research that will deliver positive and equitable benefits to men and women. Before joining Bioversity International in 2013, she conducted research on gender, forest-based livelihoods, and tree resource management in Latin America and Africa. Among other positions, she has worked in UNESCO’s Division for Gender Equality and in the Department of Anthropology of Université Laval in Canada. She is the founder of the non-governmental organization, Burkina Canada, which facilitates education to underprivileged girls and boys in Burkina Faso. Marlène Elias has an MA and PhD in Geography and a BSc in Biology and Environmental Sciences.

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Peter A. Minang is a principal scientist and leader of landscapes governance research at ICRAF. He is also the global coordinator of the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins at ICRAF. He has more than 25 years of experience in REDD+, landscape approaches, conservation, community forestry, environmental education, climate forestry, payments for ecosystem services, and development policy and practice in tropical forest landscapes. His current research interests include community-based approaches to ecosystem-based adaptation and resilience, the nexus between adaptation and mitigation to climate change, and the interface between environmental services and development and multifunctional landscapes. He has rich editorial experience, publishing books and journal special issues in Climate Policy and COSUST. He recently published a book on climate smart landscapes.

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Yanxia Li


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Eduardo Somarriba


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Eduardo Somarriba has a BS in biology and natural resources, a master’s degree in tropical forest ecology, and a PhD in agroecology (biology) from the University of Michigan. He has been an active researcher, educator and advisor/consultant in agroforestry to various governments and private companies over the last 34 years. He is currently head of the program on Agriculture, Livestock and Agroforestry at CATIE, and the focal point for FTA at CATIE. Eduardo’s current field of research is focused on the optimal management of trees on farms, multistrata agroforestry systems with coffee and cacao, and the production of timber on farms. He has provided technical advice to governments, development projects and NGOs in Latin America, led various science-based development cocoa projects in Bolivia and in Central America, and published nearly 300 publications, including scientific articles, technical manuals, books and educational materials for university students and farmers.

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Michael Dougherty


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Michael has 25 years experience in developing promotional,  information and knowledge products for international organizations, non-governmental organizations, non-profit, public and private sector clients worldwide.

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Christopher Kettle


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Christopher Kettle PhD is an ecologist and geneticist. He has 20 years of research experience working in tropical forest landscapes and restoration. He believes that forest bioversity, especially the diversity of trees, offers a critical and underutilized nature-based solution for multiple sustainable development goals, including climate change mitigation, resilient landscape restoration and sustainable food systems. Since August 2017, Christopher has led Bioversity International’s cross-cutting interdisciplinary research team working on the conservation and sustainable use of socioeconomically and ecologically important trees and their genetic diversity. He leads research programs across Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa and the safeguarding forest genetic resources cluster of FTA. He holds a joint appointment and is also group leader in the Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an associate scientist in the department of plant science at the University of Oxford, UK. Prior to joining Bioversity International, Christopher was a senior lecturer at ETH Zurich (2007 – present), and supervised over 10 PhD students mostly on topics that inform the conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests. He taught tropical rainforest ecology and led an MSc on resilience of ecological systems. He has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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Ramni Jamnadass


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Ramni H. Jamnadass is Principal Scientist and a leader for Tree Genetic Resources program at World Agroforestry and leader of Flagship 1 in the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) Forests Trees and Agroforestry focussing on:

1. Safeguarding diversity in-situ, ex-situ and circa-situ
2. Domestication and Use
3. Seed seedling Delivery systems including Nurseries
4. Economic and Environment benefits of TGR with Institutional development.

She leads a team that delivers research for development products and decision support tools to support conservation and use of the right trees for the right place and purpose (functional uses for e.g. food and nutrition, bioenergy, income generation, ecosystem services, etc.) to realize livelihood and environmental impacts. While also leading ICRAF Genebank, Ramni has strong engagement with the private sector e.g. the African Orphan Crops Consortium, supported by Mars, Inc., Illumina, Inc., and partners in a public-private partnership with a mission to develop and promote use of nutritious tree-foods and annual crops using genomics, with AAK and partners to develop sustainable value chains of Shea in Africa, etc. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the Brunel University London and spent many years teaching at the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University before joining the CGIAR.

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