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Author list for the regional assessment for Europe and Central Asia
Role	Name	Affiliation	Nominating Country/Organisation
Assessment co-chairs
Co-chair	Markus Fischer	University of Bern	Switzerland
Co-chair	Mark Rounsevell	University of Edinburgh	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Chapter 1: Setting the scene
CLA & co-chair	Markus Fischer	University of Bern	Switzerland
CLA & co-chair	Mark Rounsevell	University of Edinburgh	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Jana Frelichova	Global Change Research Centre	Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
LA	Sander Jacobs	Research Institute for Nature and Forest	Belgium
LA	Inge Liekens	VITO	Belgium
LA	Alexandra Marques	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)	Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network
LA	Zsolt Molnár	Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Hungary
LA	Mark Whittingham	Newcastle University	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	András Zlinszky	Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Hungary
RE	Tuija Hilding-Rydevik	Swedish Biodiversity Center	Sweden
RE	László Podmaniczky	Szent István University	Hungary
Fellow	Fanny Boeraeve	Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech (University of Liege)	Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech (University of Liege)
Chapter 2: Nature’s benefits to people and quality of life
CLA	Andrew Church	University of Brighton	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CLA	Berta Martin Lopez	Leuphana University, Faculty of Sustainability	Future Earth
LA	Esra Basak Dessane	Project House Cooperative	Turkey
LA	Pamela Berry	University of Oxford	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Claire Chenu	AgroParisTech	France
LA	Michael Christie	Aberystwyth University	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Magali Gerino	Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3	France
LA	Hans Keune	Research Institute for Nature and Forest	Belgium
LA	Elisa Oteros Rozas	University Pablo de Olavide	Spain
LA	Sandrine Paillard	Future Earth Secretariat	France
LA	Marion Potschin	University of Nottingham	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Axel Rossberg	Queen Mary University of London	Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
LA	Matthias Schröter	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ	Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
LA	Kerry Turner	University of East Anglia	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Alexander van Oudenhoven	Leiden University	The Netherlands
RE	Francis Turkelboom	Research Institute for Nature and Forest	Belgium
RE	Mimi Urbanc	Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts	Slovenia
Fellow	Elena Osipova	International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Heritage Programme	International Union for Conservation of Nature
Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s benefits to people
CLA	Victoria Elias	World Wildlife Fund - Russia	World Wildlife Fund Network
CLA	Markus Fischer	University of Bern	Switzerland
CLA	Isabel Sousa Pinto	Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto	EUROMARINE european consortium
CLA	Piero Visconti	Zoological Society of London	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Valida Ali-Zade	Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences	Azerbaijan
LA	Andras Báldi	Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Society for Conservation Biology
LA	Sandra Brucet	University of Vic	Universitat de Vic-Uniersitat Central de Catalunya
LA	Elena Bukvareva	Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences	The Russian Federation
LA (3bi)	Kenneth Byrne	University of Limerick	Ireland
LA	Paul Caplat	Lund University	Sweden
LA	Alan Feest	University of Bristol	Ecosulis Ltd
LA	Rodolphe Gozlan	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	France
LA	Dušan Jelić	Croatian Herpetological Society	Croatia
LA	Zaal Kikvidze	Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi	Georgia
LA	Alexandra Lavrillier	University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin	France
LA	Xavier Le Roux	National Institute of Agronomic Research	France
LA	Oksana Lipka	World Wildlife Fund - Russia	World Wildlife Fund Network
LA	Petr Petřík	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republik	Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Science
LA	Bertrand Schatz	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France
LA	Ilya Smelansky	NGO SibEcoCenter	The Russian Federation
LA	Frédérique Viard	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France
RE	Andrey Kushlin	Independent consultant	The Russian Federation
RE	Andreas Troumbis	University of the Aegean	Greece
Fellow	Carlos António Bastos de Morais Guerra	German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)	Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas
Chapter 4: Direct and indirect drivers of change in the context of different perspectives on quality of life
CLA	Marine Elbakidze	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
CLA	Thomas Hahn	Stockholm Resilience Centre	Sweden
CLA	Niklaus Zimmermann	Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research	Switzerland
LA (3bi)	Violaine Brochier	Electricity of France, Research and Development	France
LA	Pavel Cudlín	Global Change Research Centre	The Czech Republic
LA	Nikolai Friberg	Norwegian Institute for Water Research	Norway
LA	Piero Genovesi	Institute for Environmental Protection and Research	International Union for Conservation of Nature
LA	Riccardo Guarino	University of Palermo	Forum Plinianum
LA	Aveliina Helm	Plant Ecology, University of Tartu	Estonia
LA	Bengt Gunnar Jonsson	Society for Conservation Biology/Mid Sweden University	Society for Conservation Biology
LA	Szabolcs Lengyel	Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Ecological Research	Hungary
LA	Boris Leroy	Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle	France
LA	Tommaso Luzzati	University of Pisa	University of Pisa
LA	Ann Milbau	Research Institute for Nature and Forest	Belgium
LA	Angel Pérez-Ruzafa	University of Murcia	Spain
LA	Philip Roche	Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture	France
LA	Helen Roy	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Adam Vanbergen	The Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Vigdis Vandvik	University of Bergen	Norway
RE	Heli Saarikoski	Finnish Environment Institute	Finland
RE	Theo van der Sluis	Wageningen University & Research UR	The Netherlands
Fellow	Rahat Sabyrbekov	American University of Central Asia	American University of Central Asia
Chapter 5: Current and future interactions between nature and society
CLA	Paula Harrison	Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CLA	Jennifer Hauck	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ	Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
LA	Gunnar Austrheim	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
LA	Lluís Brotons	Centre For Ecological Research And Forestry Applications	CTFC-CREAF Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya
LA (3bi)	Matthew Cantele	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis	The United States of America
LA	Joachim Claudet	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France
LA	Marta Coll Monton	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	France
LA	Antoine Guisan	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
LA	Sandra Lavorel	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France
LA	Gunilla Almered Olsson	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
LA	Vânia Proença	University of Lisbon/FCT - Faculty of Sciences and Technology	Portugal
LA	Christian Rixen	Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research	Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
LA	Fernando Santos-Martín	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid	Spain
LA	Martin Schlaepfer	University of Geneva	Switzerland
LA	Cosimo Solidoro	OGS national institute of oceanography and experimental geophysic	EUROMARINE European consortium
LA	Zharas Takenov	Freelance consultant	Kazakhstan
LA	Jozef Turok	Forest Europe	Slovakia
RE	Ian Holman	Cranfield University	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
RE	Tobias Plieninger	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
Fellow	Zuzana Harmackova	Global Change Research Centre Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic	Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Chapter 6: Options for governance, institutional arrangements and private and public decision making across scales and sectors
CLA	Irene Ring	Technische Universität Dresden, International Institute Zittau	Germany
CLA	Camilla Sandström	Department of Political Science, Umeå University	Sweden
LA	Sevil Acar Aytekin	Istanbul Kemerburgaz University	Turkey
LA	Malkhaz Adeishvili	United Nations Industrial Development Organization	Georgia
LA	Christian Albert	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ	Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ
LA	Christina Allard	Luleå University of Technology	Sweden
LA (3bi)	Yaakov Anker	Samaria and the Jordan Rift R&D center	Samaria and the Jordan Rift D&D Centre
LA	Raphaël Arlettaz	Bern University	Switzerland
LA	Györgyi Bela	Szent István University/ESSRG Ltd.	Hungary
LA	Anke Fischer	James Hutton Institute	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
LA	Christine Fürst	Martin Luther-University Halle	Germany
LA	Bella Galil	Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research	Israel
LA	Oleg Guchgeldiyev	Central Asian Region Economics of Land Degradation	Turkmenistan
LA	Stephen Hynes	National University of Ireland, Galway	Ireland
LA (3bi)	Ana Mendes	University of Évora	Portugal
LA (3bi)	Ulf Molau	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
LA	Cristina Marta Pedroso	Marine Environment and Technology Center/ Laboratory for Robotics and Engineering Systems	Portugal
LA	Roland Olschewski	Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research	Switzerland
LA	Jan Pergl	Institute of Botany, Charles University	The Czech Republic
LA	Riccardo Simoncini	International Union for Conservation of Nature - European Sustainable Use Group	International Union for Conservation of Nature
LA	Ben Ten Brink	PBL-Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency	The Netherlands
RE	Susan Baker	Cardiff University	The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
RE	Piotr Matczak	Adam Mickiewicz University	Poland
RE	Eeva Primmer	Finnish Environment Institute	Finland
Fellow	Luca Coscieme	Trinity College Dublin	Trinity College Dublin

Appendix II: Timeline for the regional assessments on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Date	Actions and institutional arrangements
2015
First quarter	Plenary at its third session approves the conduct of regional assessments on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The Chair, through the secretariat, requests nominations from Governments and other stakeholders of experts to prepare the assessment report.
Second quarter	Secretariat compiles lists of nominations. The MEP selects the assessment co-chairs, coordinating lead authors and lead authors, using the approved selection criteria set out in decision IPBES2/3. List gets fine-tuned by assessments co-chairs.
Third quarter	The Management Meetings for the regional Assessments take place as well as their First Author Meetings. Start of the drafting of the Zero Order Draft.
Fourth quarter	Preparation of Zero Order Draft.
2016
First / early second quarter (Jan – May)	Preparation of First Order Draft and an internal review
Second quarter 30 May-18 Jul	Parallel First Order Draft review by experts of all four regional assessments and the land degradation and restoration assessment
Third quarter 22-26 Aug	Joint second author meeting between the experts of the regional assessments and the land degradation and restoration assessment (including co-chairs, coordinating lead authors, liaison experts, and review editors)
Third / fourth quarter	Preparation of Second Order Draft of chapters and First Order Draft of summary for policymakers
2017
First quarter - 14 April	Continued preparation of Second Order Draft of chapters and First Order Draft of summary for policymakers and internal review
Second quarter 1 May – 26 Jun (29 May – 24 July for the Americas assessment)	Parallel Second review by Governments and experts (Second Order Draft of chapters and First Order Draft of summary for policymakers) of all four regional assessments and the land degradation and restoration assessment
Third quarter 24-28 Jul (Europe and Central Asia and Asia Pacific assessment) 7-11 Aug (Africa and Americas assessment)	Third author meeting (co-chairs, coordinating lead authors, lead authors, liaison experts, review editors, and fellows)
Fourth quarter	Final text changes to the assessment and the summary for policymakers
2018
First quarter 15 Dec 2017 – 26 Jan	Translation of the summary for policymakers into the six official languages of the United Nations
Jan - Mar	Submission of the assessment, including the translated summary for policymakers, to Governments for final review prior to Plenary session
19-24 Mar	IPBES-6 Presentation of the summary for policymakers to Plenary
Second/ third quarter	Outreach and communication

** IPBES/5/1/Rev.1.

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