Executive Committee 2018

Members of the TDWG Executive Committee for the 2018 calendar year.

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Managing officers

Role Name Affiliation Term of office
Chair Dimitris Koureas Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands 2017-2018
Deputy Chair James Macklin Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, ON, Canada 2017-2018
Secretary Quentin Groom Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium 2017-2018
Treasurer William Ulate Missouri Botanical Garden, MO, USA 2018-2019

Subcommittee chairs

Functional Subcommittee Name Affiliation Term of office
Technical Architecture Group Paul Morris Museum of Comparative Zoology, MA, USA 2018-2019
Fundraising and Partnerships Martin Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Biodiversity Heritage Library, Washington DC, USA 2017-2018
Infrastructure Tim Robertson Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Denmark 2018-2019
Outreach and Communications Prabhakar Rajagopal Strand Life Sciences and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), India 2017-2018
Time and Place Patricia Mergen Royal Museum for Central Africa and Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium 2018-2019

Regional Representatives

Region Name Affiliation Term of office
Africa Lucy Waruingi African Conservation Centre, Kenya 2017-2018
Asia Ji Liqiang Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 2017-2018
Europe Wouter Addink Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands 2018-2019
Latin America Bruno de Carvalho Albertini University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018-2019
North America Cynthia Parr National Agricultural Library, USDA, MD, USA 2017-2018
Oceania Simon Checksfield CSIRO, Australia 2018-2019

Regularly invited participants (non-voting)

Role Name Affiliation
Conference Program Committee Co-Chair Gail Kampmeier Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Administrator, TDWG Secretariat Stan Blum San Francisco, CA, USA