Leaders and the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary organisations involved in forming the global network are listed below. (The leaders’ organisational links are those at the time of forming the global network.)
| Name | Meetings attended | Role and organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Arun Agrawal | SESYNC Ann Arbor | Coordinator, International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) University of Michigan, USA; http://www.ifriresearch.net/ |
| Gabriele Bammer | SESYNC Ann Arbor Santa Fe | Founder, Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) The Australian National University, Australia; http://i2s.anu.edu.au/ |
| Kamal Bawa | SESYNC Santa Fe | Founder-President, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), India; http://www.atree.org/ |
| Paul Bertsch | SESYNC | Science Director, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia |
| Chris Boone | SESYNC Ann Arbor Santa Fe | Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA; https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/ |
| Dan Brown | Ann Arbor | Director, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, USA |
| Colin Campbell | SESYNC | Chief Executive, The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/ |
| Paul Dodd | SESYNC | Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research, Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives, University of California, Davis, USA; https://research.ucdavis.edu/research/interdisciplinary-research-strategic-initiatives/ |
| Jennifer Dunne | SESYNC Santa Fe | Vice President for Science, Santa Fe Institute, USA; http://www.santafe.edu/ |
| Iain Gordon | SESYNC Santa Fe | Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University, Australia; Former Chief Executive of the James Hutton Institute, UK |
| David Hart | SESYNC Ann Arbor | Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine, USA; https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/ |
| Jessica Hellmann | SESYNC Ann Arbor Santa Fe | Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA; http://environment.umn.edu/ |
| Ben Houlton | Ann Arbor | Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis, USA |
| Elena Irwin | Ann Arbor | Faculty Director, Sustainable and Resilient Economy Program, Ohio State University, USA |
| Anthony Janetos | Ann Arbor | Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, USA; http://www.bu.edu/pardee/ (deceased August 2019) |
| Jonathan Kramer | SESYNC Ann Arbor | Director for Interdisciplinary Science, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland, USA; http://www.sesync.org |
| Hein Mallee | SESYNC | Head of Social Science Division, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan; http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/ |
| Alison Miller | SESYNC Santa Fe | Deputy Director for Management, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA; http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/ |
| Mark New | SESYNC Santa Fe | Director, African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, South Africa; http://www.acdi.uct.ac.za; Also Pro-Vice Chancellor for Climate Change |
| Jean Ometto | SESYNC Santa Fe | Deputy-Coordinator, Rede-Clima, Brazil; http://redeclima.ccst.inpe.br/ Also Head, Centre for Earth System Science |
| Michael O’Rourke | Ann Arbor | Interim Director, Center for Interdisciplinarity, Michigan State University, USA |
| Margaret Palmer | SESYNC | Director, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland, USA; http://www.sesync.org |
| Steward Pickett | SESYNC Santa Fe | Distinguished Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA; http://www.caryinstitute.org/; Also Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) Baltimore Ecosystem Study |
| Ken Taylor | SESYNC Ann Arbor | Director, Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, New Zealand; http://www.ourlandandwater.nz/ |
| Gabriele Wendorf | SESYNC Ann Arbor Santa Fe | Co-Head of Research, Center for Technology and Society, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; https://www.tu.berlin/en/ztg Former Vice-President, Technische Universität Berlin |