Responsible for admitting sites that achieve the Standard to the IUCN Green List, and makes decisions relating to the ongoing inclusion of sites on the IUCN Green List.
Julia Miranda Londoño is a Law graduate from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with postgraduate studies in Environmental Law from Universidad Externado de Colombia. She has also worked as litigating attorney and environmental law lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
She has ample experience and knowledge of environmental topics, transcendental to Colombia as a mega diverse country. She was chief of the Environmental Management Consulting Office of Bogota’s Instituto de Desarrrollo Urbano (IDU). Subsequently, as General Director of the city’s Departamento Técnico Administrativo del Medio Ambiente (today Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente), she faced many challenges in urban environmental matters such as the creation of the Capital District’s Environmental Management Plan and the inclusion of environmental topics in the city’s Land Management Plan. In this position, she strengthened control and surveillance of industrial activities while also promoting clean production and business improvement programs. She also contributed to the consolidation of the Main Ecological Structure of Bogota, as a conservation strategy in urban ecosystems.
She was chosen among the 30 leaders, in the 2014 Best Leaders of Colombia Award given by Semana magazine and the Fundación Liderazgo y Demorcacia, whose work in the arena of the public, the community, the local, regional, national and international contributed to the development of Colombian society during that year. Within this group, she was also awarded the statuette to the top 10 leaders along with Nairo Quintana, Shakira Mebarack, Claudia López, Maurice Armitage, Clara López, Elsa Noguera, Rafael Pardo, el padre Cyrillus Swinne and Nacho Gómez.
Leads the consultation and review to update the Standard, to ensure it reflects current scientific and technical best practice and remains relevant.
Provides technical review of any adaptations of the Generic Indicators proposed by EAGLs in participating Green List jurisdictions, and makes recommendations to the Green List Committee for approval.
Stephen Woodley is an ecologist, who has worked in the field of environmental management for over 30 years, as field biologist, park manager, and scientist. He was the first Chief Scientist for Parks Canada where he worked on a number of issues related to protected areas, including developing techniques for monitoring and assessment of ecological integrity, ecological restoration, and sustainable forestry. Stephen now works with the IUCN World commission on Protected Areas, with a focus on understanding what makes protected areas effective in conserving nature. The aim is to place protected areas as a central solution to many of the pressing issues of our times.
Joanne joined NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in 2014 and currently leads the national and international partnerships program. She is an experienced conservation scientist and manager with over 20 years experience in diverse roles across state governments, industry and non-government organisations. She has a background is in marine and coastal ecosystems, protected area management and monitoring and evaluation and spent five years in Indonesia leading the coral reef science program for The Nature Conservancy. Her role in NPWS includes working with IUCN to promote the recommendations from the 2014 World Parks Congress Promise of Sydney. As a keen bushwalker and diver, she knows how important it is to connect with nature. She sees the critical need for programs such as #NatureForAll and Healthy Parks Healthy People to ensure that nature and national parks become as important to people as their health and well-being.
Oversees the strategic development and management of the IUCN Green List Programme, and ensures it achieves and maintains compliance with ISEAL Codes of Good Practice for standard-setting, assurance and impact assessment.
Marc Hockings is an Emeritus Professor School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland. He maintains an active research program on the management of protected areas with a particular focus on monitoring and evaluation in conservation management. He is a long-term member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) through its World Commission on Protected Areas where he leads the global program on Science and Management of Protected Areas. He initiated and is leading the IUCN WCPA work on the Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas. He is also a member of the Commission’s Executive Committee. Marc was the principal author of the IUCN’s best practice guidelines on evaluation of management effectiveness in protected areas. He is an honorary Senior Fellow at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK. In 2008 he received the Kenton R. Miller Award for Innovation in Protected Area Sustainability for his work on management effectiveness.
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