Interviews of experts

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2020 May 06

Interviews of experts

The interviews were conducted to give an overview of the Belgian delegation's experts over the past few years. They are all working hand in hand with their respective expertise for the Convention on Biological Diversity. In these interviews, they share their daily challenges, opportunities, their relationship with the national focal point, etc.


Els Martens Former Coordination Policy Officer at Flemish Government	Egbert Jacquemyn Project Officer Nagoya at Flemish Region	Jolien Venneman Former National Focal Point on Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI)


Marie-Lucie Susini Former Belgian NationalFocal Point for the 'Global Taxonomy Initiative"(GTI)	Marc Peeters Coordinator Education and Public Awareness at the Belgian National Focal Point to the CBD	Salima Kempenaer National Focal Point on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), and Resource Mobilization


Caroline Nieberding Biologist, researcher and Professor at the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain	Sophie Mirgaux Belgium's Special Envoy for the Ocean	Han De Koeijer Coordinator Belgian Clearing House Mechanisme (CHM)


Catherine Debruyne International biodiversity expert at Service public de Wallonie	Fanny Coppens Scientist at Sciensano	Kelly Hertenweg Senior International Environmental Relations Officer


Lino Paoletti Former UN Youth Delegate Biodiversity	Arnaud Goessens Associate Director for EU Policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society	Laurence Drèze Biodiversity Policy Officer at WWF Belgium