Keynote speakers & panellists
The below listed keynote speakers will address the conference theme from their experience and will reflect on the science, policy or practice of the role of ecosystem services for a sustainable future.
The information provided below is tentative and will be updated frequently.
Monday 21 October
10:30-12:00 Opening
- Benjamin Burkhard, (Chair ESP10 conference/ Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) "Opening and welcome to ESP10 conference"
- Peter Wriggers, (Vice-President Leibniz University Hannover)
- Rudolf de Groot, (Chair Ecosystem Services Partnership, The Netherlands) "10 years Ecosystem Services Partnership"
- Bob Costanza (Co-chair Ecosystem Services Partnership, Australia) "ES(P) for a sustainable future"
- Elena Bennett (McGill University, Canada) “Advances and Challenges in ES science since MEA”. Elena Bennet will provide a short video statement.
13:30-15:00 Plenary session
- Christiane Paulus (Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany) "Ecosystem services and natural capital – a new paradigm for Biodiversity Policy”
- Louise Willemen (University of Twente, The Netherlands): "It's about time: advancing spatial analyses of ecosystem services and their application”
- Panel discussion with keynote speakers
Tuesday 22 October
08:45-10:00 Plenary session
- Anne Larigauderie (Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) "IPBES: Harnessing the power of science to inform decision making towards 2020 and beyond"
- Berta Martín-López (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany) "Plural valuation of ecosystem services matters for science – policy interface”
Thursday 24 October
08:45-10:00 Plenary session
- Lucy Emerton (Environment Management Group, UK) "Building the economic and business case for investing in ecosystem services"
- Panel discussion with representatives from the business sector: "Advancing Business and Science collaboration". Panellists are: Carolyn Jewell (Biodiversity and Natural Resources Senior Manager, HeidelbergCement), representatives from HIPP, and a financial institute are to be confirmed. Moderator: Lucy Emerton.
Friday 25 October
10:30-12:00 Plenary session
- Hans Bruyninckx (Executive Director, European Environment Agency) “Moving beyond ecosystem (ab)use towards fundamental sustainability"
- Panel on “The future of ES research, policy and practice”; including among others Anne Teller, Klaus Töpfer, Hans Bruyninckx.
Biographies
Lucy Emerton - is an environmental economist specialising in biodiversity and ecosystem valuation, and the development of innovative conservation finance and incentive mechanisms. Over the last 30 years she has worked as advisor to DFID, GIZ, the African Wildlife Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Bank, WWF, UNDP, UNEP, FAO and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), established and led IUCN’s environmental economics programmes in Africa, Asia and at the Global level, and provided technical advice and backstopping to a wide variety of other organisations and governments across almost 70 countries worldwide.
Lucy is currently Conservation Economics and Finance Director of the Environment Management Group, a consultancy group and think-tank providing business planning advice and technical support in environmental sustainability to the corporate sector, governments and international agencies.
Berta Martín-López - is Professor at the Faculty of Sustainability of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. With a PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, and many years of undertaking applied research, Berta focuses on analysing the dynamics of social-ecological systems at different scales, from local to global. She has been editor of the IPBES Pollinators Assessment and coordinating lead author for the IPBES Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Europe and Central Asia. In addition to her commitment as Co-Editor in Chief of the ‘Ecosystems and People’ journal, she serves as editorial board member of Ecology & Society and One Earth. She is also Co-Chair of the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) of Future Earth.
Anne Teller - is Senior expert in the Directorate-General Environment of the European Commission. She graduated as a Forest Engineer from the University of Brussels and completed her Master of Science in Forest and its relation to Land Management at Oxford University. Anne has more than thirty years experience in European environmental policy. She has worked at regional, national and European level. Her specific domain of interest is the improvement of the knowledge and evidence base for environment policy. Anne is currently supporting the first EU wide ecosystem assessment to support biodiversity policy.
Louise Willemen - has worked on ecosystem services and rural development issues since 2003. Her research primarily focusses on making quantitative spatial information on ecosystem services available to support multi-objective decision making in agricultural areas. Her current research includes Remote Sensing-based ecosystem service mapping and monitoring, impact assessments of integrated restoration, and prioritization of investments in land degradation neutrality actions in the Global South. She contributes to bridging science-policy through her role as Coordinating Lead Author of the Land Degradation and Restoration assessment of IPBES, she is a member of ESP’s Executive Committee and leads Working Groups, and does editorial work for several journals.
Louise Willemen has a PhD in spatial modelling from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a MSc degree from the same university in Tropical Land Use studies (specialization in plant production systems and GIS). She has worked at several science and policy organizations including Bioversity International in Colombia, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Italy, Cornell University in the USA, and has collaborated with many on-the-ground public and private partners.
