Tools4LDN Project Team

  • Alex Zvoleff, Tools4LDN Principle Investigator and Senior Director, Resilience Science, Conservation International

  • Monica Noon, Tools4LDN Project Manager, Senior Manager, Data Science for Resilience, Conservation International

  • Gabriel Daldegan, Land Systems Scientist, Conservation International

  • Tatenda Lemann, World Overview on Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Co-Lead, Senior Research Scientist, WOCAT Coordinator, University of Bern

  • Hanspeter Liniger, WOCAT Co-Lead, Senior Research Scientist, Programme Director, WOCAT, University of Bern

  • Ingrid Teich, WOCAT- FAO Geospatial Specialist, Argentina

  • Jeff Herrick, LandPKS Co-Lead, Range Management Research, Research Soil Scientist, United States Department of Agriculture

  • Jason Neff, LandPKS Co-Lead, SILC Director, University of Colorado

  • David Lopez-Carr, University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB) Co-Lead, Professor of Geography, UCSB

  • Narcisa Pricope, Professor, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington

  • Kevin Mwenda, Assistant Professor of Population Studies, Brown University

Steering Committee

  • Alex Zvoleff, Tools4LDN Principle Investigator, Senior Director, Resilience Science, Conservation International

  • Jeff Herrick, Tools4LDN LandPKS Co-Lead, Range Management Research, Research Soil Scientist, United States Department of Agriculture

  • Jason Neff, Tools4LDN LandPKS Co-Lead, SILC Director, University of Colorado

  • David Lopez-Carr, Tools4LDN University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB) Co-Lead, Professor of Geography, UCSB

  • Tatenda Lemann, Tools4LDN World Overview on Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Co-Lead, Senior Research Scientist, WOCAT Coordinator, University of Bern

  • Hanspeter Liniger, Tools4LDN WOCAT Co-Lead, Senior Research Scientist, Programme Director, WOCAT, University of Bern

  • Sara Minelli, Tools4LDN UNCCD Focal Point, Programme Officer/Monitoring and Assessment, UNCCD Secretariat

  • Antje Hecheltjen, Advisor, GIZ-Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

  • Marcelo Rezende, Natural Resources Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  • David Olarte Amaya, Tools4LDN Americas Focal Point, GEF Operational Focal Point,

    Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia

  • Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba, Tools4LDN Africa Focal Point, University of Antanarivo, School of Agronomy, Department of Water and Forest

  • Vivek Vyas, Tools4LDN Asia Focal Point, Freelance Consultant LDN



Scientific Advisory Board

  • Marc Paganini, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, Science, Applications and Climate Department, European Space Agency

  • Neil Sims, Program Manager, Space Technology Future Science Platform, CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science

  • Graham von Maltitz, CSIR Pretoria