Deadline: 31st January
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services issued a call for nomination of experts to help scope, advise on and deliver the 2014-2018 work programme. Governments and relevant stakeholders can put forward nominations, from which the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of IPBES will select a maximum of 20% of experts from the stakeholder nominations, and the rest from the government nominations. IPBES will make use of the best scientists and experts from all relevant disciplines (natural science, social science, economics, traditional knowledge), and will aim at a geographical and gender balance among those experts in the delivery of the IPBES work programme.
Experts nominations are sought for the Belgian government to submit to the IPBES Secretariat. Background information on the IPBES, and specific information for the applicants is provided in the following documents:
All nominations (i.e. completed nomination template and current CV) must be submitted by 31 January to the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, to Dr Hilde Eggermont.
The Belgian Biodiversity Platform looks forward to receiving your applications, and kindly request you to circulate this invitation amongst your networks. For more information, please contact Dr. Hilde Eggermont (h.eggermont@biodiversity.be) or Dr. Hans Keune (h.keune@biodiversity.be), Belgian Biodiversity Platform.