| Allison Leidner | NASA Earth Science Division in the Biological Diversity Program |
| Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Member of the Terrestrial Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee (TWG IASC) and Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich |
| Gary Geller | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and GEO Secretariat, Scientific & Technical Team |
| Glenn Litsios | Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and FOEN species--ecosystems--landscapes-division |
| Jeannine Cavender-Bares | University of Minnesota |
| Nestor Fernandez | Group on Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig |
| Grace Wu | Energy and Resources Group, University of California Berkeley |
| Martin Herold | Wageningen University |
| Mike Gill | Group on Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) |
| Nathalie Pettorelli | Zoological Society of London |
