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The Rio Doce Panel was constituted in 2017 as an Independent ScientiTc

Technical Advisory Panel (ISTAP), a valuable tool to address controversial
conservation and development issues with the aim of producing scientiTcally-
robust and equitable solutions.

In the context of the Rio Doce Basin, the objective of the Panel is to produce
technical and scientiTc recommendations to the Renova Foundation and other
actors involved in the restoration process and to assess the work being
undertaken in the region with a focus on long-term ecosystem health and
resilience and the promotion of sustainable social and economic development.

To receive information about the work of the Rio Doce Panel, please
register at https://www.iucn.org/rio-doce-panel/panel/newsletter

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Chair and members

In June 2017, IUCN announced Yolanda Kakabase, a globally recognised
environmentalist and former President of IUCN, as the Rio Doce Panel Chair. (See
the announcement here.)

The other members were appointed through an open and competitive process.

The Panel is currently composed by:

Yolanda Kakabadse, chair of the Rio Doce Panel. Former President of IUCN,
former Ecuadorian Minister of Environment; lives in Quito, Ecuador.
GOVERNANCE

Francisco Barbosa, PhD, Deputy Chair of the Panel, Professor of Freshwater

Ecology and Limnology in the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), lives
in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Christianne Maroun, DSc, Professor of Environmental Engineering at PUC-

Rio, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. WATER MANAGEMENT AND
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

Jonathan Renshaw, PhD, independent social development specialist,

researcher in Social Anthropology, lives in Folkstone, UK. SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT

Luis E. Sánchez, PhD, Professor of Mining Engineering at Escola Politécnica,

University of São Paulo; lives in São Paulo, Brazil. ENGINEERING AND
IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Maria Cecilia Wey de Brito, MSc, Member of EKOS Brasil Institute; Former
Secretary of Biodiversity and Forests of the Ministry of the Environment of
Brazil, lives in São Paulo, Brazil. LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT AND
BIODIVERSITY

Peter H. May, PhD, Professor at the Department of Development, Agriculture

and Society of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), lives in
New York, USA. NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY

FORMER MEMBERS

Fernando V. Laureano, PhD Professor in the PontiTcal Catholic University of

Minas Gerais, from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Fernando attended the Panel from
June 2018 to August 2019. GEOLOGY.

Hubert Roeser, PhD. Professor in the Department of Environmental

Engineering, in the Federal University of Ouro Preto, from Germany, lives in
Ouro Preto, Brazil. Hubert attended the Panel from September 2017 to June
2018. ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGNOSTICS AND HYDROLOGY.

Keith Alger, PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, from
Maryland, US. Keith attended the Panel from September 2017 to June
2018. ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT RESTORATION.

Luiza Alonso, EdD, former Professor of Sociology, at Brasilia Catholic

University; member of FUNDHAM (Fundação Museu do Homem Americano);
from São Paulo, Brazil. Luiza attended the panel from September 2017 to
March 2020. HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

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Brief biographies of the Rio Doce Panel current members and additional
information can be found here: https://www.iucn.org/rio-doce-panel/panel/meet-
members.

The information is also available in English and Portuguese, along with the Terms
of Reference for the members in English and Portuguese.

Vision and Objectives

The Panel’s vision is long-term environmental and socio-economic health and
resilience for the Rio Doce basin and adjoining coastal zone. This vision shall be
achieved through an approach that is nature-based, integrative, grounded in the
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