MEMBERSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS

• Advisory Committee, Gulbenkian Ocean Initiative (Portugal)
• Advisory Board, UK National Ecosystem Assessment (by invitation)
• Elected Board Member, International Society of Ecological Economics
• Elected Board Member, European Society of Ecological Economics
• Secretary, Indian Society of Ecological Economics
• Extraordinary Professor (by invitation), University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Honorary Research Scientis, Columbia University, NY
• International Fellow, Boston College, Boston

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP AND GLOBAL COORDINATION

1)       Working Group Leader for Multi Million Initiative on Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative by the EU and BMZ

2)      Research Consortium Director for Strengthening Capacity in Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems under ESPA supported by DFID, NERC and the ESRC, 2009-2010.

3)      Head, Technical Support Unit (TSU), Responses Working Group, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2000-2005) (http://www.maweb.org/en/Responses.aspx)

4)     Member Secretary, World Bank Aided Capacity Building in Environmental Economics in South Asia (1998-2001)

5)      Lead Author, IPCC, FAR (WGIII)

6)     Lead Author, Sub Global Assessment, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

7)      Co- Chair of the Policy and Technical Committee of the Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services, led by the World Bank

8)     Member of the National Ecosystem Assessment, UK

9)     Member of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Study Board and Leader for the Conceptual Foundation of TEEB

10)  Advisory Member of the Gulbenkian Ocean Initiative, Lisbon.