President
Ashok Khosla, India
Vice-Presidents (elected by Council from among its members)
Javed Jabbar
Russell A. Mittermeier
Kalev Sepp
Diane Shand
Treasurer
Kurt Ramin, Germany
Commission Chairs:
Commission on Ecosystem Management
Piet Wit, Netherlands
Chair, Commission on Ecosystem Management
Commission on Education and Communication
Keith Wheeler, USA
Chair, Commission on Education and Communication
Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
Aroha Te Pareake Mead, New Zealand
Chair, Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
Commission on Environmental Law
Sheila Abed, Paraguay
Chair, Commission on Environmental Law
World Commission on Protected Areas
Nikita Lopoukhine, Canada
Chair, World Commission on Protected Areas
Species Survival Commission
Simon Stuart, UK
Chair, Species Survival Commission
Regional Councillors:
Africa
Yolan Friedmann, South Africa
Brahim Haddane, Morocco
Hillary M. Masundire, Zimbabwe
Meso and South America
Cláudio Carrera Maretti, Brazil
Miguel Pellerano, Argentina
Zuleika Pinzón, Panama
North America and the Caribbean
George Greene, Canada
Russell Mittermeier, USA
Spencer L. Thomas, Grenada
South and East Asia
Arzu Rana Deuba, Nepal
Hiroharu Koike, Japan
Mahfuz Ullah, Bangladesh
West Asia
Ali Darwish, Lebanon
Javed Jabbar, Pakistan
Mohammad Shabaz, Jordan
Oceania
Brendan Mackey, Australia
Diana Shand, New Zealand
Robin Yarrow, Fiji
East Europe, North and Central Asia
Amirkhan Amirkhanov, Russia
Vilmos Kiszel, Humgary
Kalev Sepp, Estonia
West Europe
Hans H. de Iongh, Netherlands
Christophe Lefebvre, France
Marina von Weissenberg, Finland
Representative of the Swiss Confederation
Willy Geiger, Switzerland
Appointed Councillors:
Ma Keping, China
Seong-il Kim, Republic of Korea
Grace Mwaura, Kenya
Fatou Sarr, Senegal
Johan Schaar, Sweden
