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 |
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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; http://www.tu-berlin.de/ztg/menue/startseite_ztg/parameter/en/ Former Vice-President, Technische Universität Berlin |