The Steering Committee provides guidance and support to the Partner.ship. In the first twelve months of the Partnership an interim Steering Commitee was in place, which passed responsibility to the full Steering Committee in October 2013.
The Steering Committee membership is as follows:
Mr Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias
The Executive Secretary
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
413 St-Jacques Street, Suite 800
Montreal, Canada
braulio.dias@cbd.int
Mr Donald Hobern
Executive Secretary
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark
dhobern@gbif.org
Mr Tshilidzi Edward Netshithothole,
on behalf of
Mr. Sabino Meri Francis Ogwal,
Uganda Deputy Director
International Biodiversity and Heritage
Department of Environmental Affairs
Private Bag X447
Pretoria 0001
South Africa
enetshithothole@environment.gov.za
Dr Andy Sheppard
Theme Leader - Biosecurity Flagship
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
GPO Box 1700
Canberra ACT
Australia
Andy.Sheppard@csiro.au
Mr David Morveley
Invasive alien species specialist
Small Island and Developing States
SPREP
PO Box 240, Apia, Samoa
davidm@sprep.org
Ms Melodie McGeoch
Assoc. Professor
Faculty of Science
Clayton Campus
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
melodie.mcgeoch@monash.edu
Mr Piero Genovesi
Chair of IUCN Invasive Species Specialists Group
Senior Scientist ISPRA Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
Via V. Brancati 48
00144 Rome, Italy
piero.genovesi@isprambiente.it
Dr Christopher Lyal (ex-officio)
Chair, Interim Steering Committee for the GIASI Partnership
Life Sciences department
Terrestrial Invertebrates Division
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
C.lyal@nhm.ac.uk
ex-officio
Interoperability and quality improvement working group
Ms Shyama Pagad (ex-officio)
Information synthesis and assessment working group
Program Manager
Invasive Species Information Management
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
s.pagad@auckland.ac.nz
Mr Martin Parr (ex-officio)
interim Non-web based information and communication working group – at this meeting he represents CABI
Programme Manager
CABI Head Office
Nosworthy Way
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8DE
UK
m.parr@cabi.org
Ms. Junko Shimura (ex-officio)
Programme Officer for invasive alien species
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
413 St-Jacques Street, Suite 800
Montreal, Canada
junko.shimura@cbd.int