Transition Team

The committee that is leading the initial design phase of the new initiative, the 'Transition Team', comprises seventeen members from a wide range of disciplines and countries, and also includes ex-officio members representing the main partners of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability.

Three working groups have been established to carry the operational work forward and an Executive Group, a small subset of the Team, is overseeing them on a regular basis.

The Terms of Reference for the Transition Team have been approved.
The list working groups.

Name	Institute
Tanya Abrahamse	CEO, South African Biodiversity Research Institute, South Africa
Bertha Becker	Emeritus Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rohan D'Souza**	Professor, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Karl Jones	Executive Director, Catastrophe Management Services, Asia Pacific and Australia, Willis Re Australia, Willis Group, Australia
Rik Leemans**	Professor, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Peter Liss**	Professor, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Diana Liverman,*	Co-Director Institute of the Environment University of Arizona, US
Harold Mooney	Professor, Stanford University, US
Isabelle Niang	Professor, Université de Dakar, Senegal
Karen O'Brien	Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
Hermann Requardt	CEO, Siemens Health Care Sector, Germany
Johan Rockström,*	Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
Roberto Sanchez	Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mexico, Mexico
Martin Visbeck**	Professor, Chairman of Physical Oceanography Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
Robert Watson	Director, Strategic Development, Tyndall Centre University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, and Defra Chief Scientific Advisor
Tandong Yao	Director, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Stephen Zebiak	Director, Climate Services Initiativeat the Earth Institute, Columbia University, US
Ex-officio members**
Joseph Alcamo	Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Irina Bokova	Director General, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Heide Hackmann	Executive Director, International Social Science Council (ISSC)
Gretchen Kalonji	Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Albert van Jaarsveld	Co-Chair, Belmont Forum
Patrick Monfray	Co-Chair, Belmont Forum
Jakob Rhyner	Vice-Rector in Europe, United Nations University (UNU); Director, UNU-EHS, Institute for Environment and Human Security
Paul Rouse	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom
Steven Wilson	Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)
Observers
Ghassem Asrar	Director, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
Anantha Duraiappah	Executive Director, International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP)
Anne Larigauderie	Executive Director, DIVERSITAS, an international programme of biodiversity science
Jeremiah Lengoasa	Deputy Secretary, General of World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Sybil Seitzinger	Executive Director, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)

*Co-Chair
**Executive Group member

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