Technical Panel

In April 2008, based on recommendations made at a Steering Group meeting held earlier in Oxford,  the HCV Resource Network invited all Network Participants and Supporting Organisations  to nominate individuals who were signatories to the Network's Charter (see the Connections pages for a list of registered Network Participants) to be potential members of a Technical Panel (TP); original ideas of how such a panel would operate were also distributed at that time.

In June 2008, the Steering Group, guided by a Quality Control sub-committe, confirmed the initial appointment of a HCV-RN Technical Panel (TP), whose role is:

• To undertake peer reviews of specific HCV assessments or uses when requested to do so;
• To provide recommendations on the way in which the HCV concept should be interpreted and used in practice;
• To play a leading role in identifying the need for further development of the HCV concept, and undertaking that development;
• To inform the SG of important developments in the use of the HCV concept as these arise.

HCV Resource Network Technical Panel Members:

(last updated September 2011)

• Daniel Arancibia, Peru (WWF)
• Reza Azmi, Malaysia (Wild Asia)
• Robin Barr, Indonesia (The Forest Trust - TFT)
• Leandro Baumgarten, Brazil (Nature Conservancy - TNC )
• Zhivko Bogdanov, Bulgaria (WWF)
• Tom Clark, Canada (CMC Consulting)
• Chris Dickinson, Laos PDR (Indufor Oy- SUFORD Project)
• Sophie Dirou, Gabon (Terea)
• Nigel Dudley, UK (Equilibrium Consulting)
• Aldo Farias, Chile (WWF)
• Neil Franklin, Indonesia (Independent Consultant & IBCSD)
• Mark Leighton, USA (Great Ape World Heritage Species Project- GAWHSP)
• Marcelo Levy, Canada (Responsible Forestry Solutions - RFS)
• Douglas Macfarlane, South Africa (Eco-Pulse Consulting)
• Ted Mamu, Papua New Guinea (WWF)
• Marcelo Mazzolli, Brazil (Projeto Puma)
• Dwi Muhtaman, Indonesia (Aksenta)
• Gary Paoli, Indonesia (Daemeter Consulting)
• Sophie Persey, Indonesia (Zoological Society London - ZSL) 
• Edward Pollard, UK (Independent Consultant)
• Tim Rayden, Gabon (Wildlife Conservation Society - WCS)
• Olive Tatio Sah, Cameroon (International Centre for Environmental & Forestry Studies - ICEFS)
• Conrad Savy, USA (Conservation International - CI)
• Aisyah Sileuw, Indonesia (Daemeter Consulting)
• Christopher Stewart, UK (Proforest) 
• Jim Strittholt, USA (Conservation Biology Institute - CBI)
• Winfried Suess, Austria (Oesterreichsche Bundesforste AG Consulting)
• Yana Suryadinata, Indonesia (Nature Conservancy - TNC)
• Maria Tysiachniouk, Russia (Centre for Independent Social Research - CISR)
• Tatiana Yanitskaya, Russia (FSC Russia) 

Click here for detail on how the Panel will operate in practice, and its current Terms of Reference; you may also download a complete list of the currrent TP members

Detailed guidance on how the Panel will review HCV assessment reports is also available (click here for an editable word version of this document). Please note that all requests to the Network for a Technical Panel Peer review are publically available; in addition it is hoped that most TP Peer review reports will also be made public.

September 2011 update: In order to maintain the balance of representation from different regions and sectors and ecological, social, and management  technical expertise, 5 new members were accepted on to the Panel in September 2011, bringing the current membership up to 30 individuals (click here to see a lsit of the 2011 applicants to the Panel).

September 2010 update: To achieve better representation of social expertise, better representation from South America and Africa, and stronger expertise in multi-stakeholder processes and technical aspects of large-scale conservation planning, 8 new members of the Panel were confirmed in September 2010 (click here for a list of all 2010 applicants to the TP). 

You can also download a list of the original TP members selected in June 2008, and a summary of the outcomes of its initial kick-off meeting (you can also see some of the presentations made by TP members at this meeting by going to the Resource Centre.)