{"id":1608,"date":"2022-07-27T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/?page_id=1608"},"modified":"2024-07-18T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:52:55","slug":"expert-advisory-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/expert-advisory-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Advisory Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull curved-bottom\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cheetah-on-road-banner.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cheetah-on-road-banner.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cheetah-on-road-banner-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cheetah-on-road-banner-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cheetah-on-road-banner-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cheetah-on-road-banner-1536x576.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">Expert Advisory Group<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"lead\">Our Expert Advisory Group (EAG) gives us an independent perspective on our strategy, performance, and major decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are fortunate to have attracted independent experts from across the world and a wide range of disciplines to join the EAG, whose expertise and advice we can draw on to help us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensure our analysis, recommendations and policy proposals are accurate and based on best available knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid advancing policies or ideas with unanticipated adverse side-effects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assess the viability of and rigorously evaluate recommendations made by ourselves, supporters, the public and other organisations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understand and integrate social, cultural and ethical considerations across our work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We regret that we are unable to provide contact details for or forward correspondence to members of the EAG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-grid grid grid-3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_7357_small.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-6392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_7357_small.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_7357_small-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_7357_small-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><h3>MUHTARI AMINU-KANO<\/h3><p>Dr Aminu-Kano is a&nbsp;natural resource management expert with more than thirty years experience in&nbsp;the fields of protected area management, wider biodiversity conservation, climate change, agriculture, humanitarian work and poverty reduction in Nigeria, Africa and globally. He was was Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation until 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wendo-.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wendo-.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wendo--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wendo--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wendo--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Wendo--1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><h3>WENDO ASZED<\/h3><p>Wendo is the founder and executive director of\u00a0Dandelion Africa, a grassroots organisation in Kenya focused on women\u2019s health and economic empowerment. A former bank executive, she has dedicated herself to the welfare of women in rural areas. Founded in 2009, Dandelion Africa provides economic and skills training, health information to youth and is constructing a maternity clinic.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Ugo-Bardi.png\" class=\"wp-image-4185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Ugo-Bardi.png 720w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Ugo-Bardi-244x300.png 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><h3>UGO BARDI<\/h3><p>Ugo Bardi teaches Physical Chemistry at the University of Florence, in Italy, where he is engaged in research on sustainability and energy with a special view on mineral resources, circular economy, and recycling. Ugo Bardi is a member of the Club of Rome, chief editor of the Springer journal&nbsp;<em>Biophysical Economics and Resource Quality<\/em>,&nbsp;and member of several international scientific organizations. He is active in the dissemination of scientific results in sustainability and climate science on the blog&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassandralegacy.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cassandra&nbsp;Legacy<\/a>. He is the author of numerous papers on sustainability and of the books &#8216;The Limits to Growth Revisited&#8217;&nbsp;(Springer 2011), &#8216;Extracted \u2013 how the quest for mineral wealth is plundering the planet&#8217;&nbsp;(Chelsea Green, 2014), and &#8216;The Seneca Effect&#8217;&nbsp;(Springer 2017). A new book titled &#8216;Before Collapse&#8217;&nbsp;is in preparation and is expected to be published by Springer before the end of 2019. His books have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, and Romanian.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PC.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-7887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PC.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PC-275x300.jpeg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><h3>PATRICK CURRY<\/h3><p>Patrick is a&nbsp;tutor at the University of Wales Trinity St David and former lecturer at the universities of Bath Spa and Kent, the author of &#8216;Ecological Ethics: An Introduction&#8217; and the editor-in-chief of the online journal&nbsp;<em>The Ecological Citizen<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1506\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr-Edu-Effiom_0.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr-Edu-Effiom_0.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr-Edu-Effiom_0-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr-Edu-Effiom_0-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr-Edu-Effiom_0-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr-Edu-Effiom_0-1536x1130.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><h3>EDU EFFIOM<\/h3><p>Dr Edu Effiom is Assistant Director with the Nigerian Cross River Forestry Commission where she heads the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Sustainable Forest Project Unit. Her main focus is on the impact of human activities on biodiversity, capacity building, and policymaking. She serves as a Councillor with the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation and currently chairs its Africa Chapter.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/becky-f.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/becky-f.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/becky-f-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/becky-f-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><h3>Rebecca Foljambe<\/h3><p>Rebecca Foljambe is an NHS GP with a special interest in Family Planning and Women\u2019s Health. She is also the founder of\u00a0You Before Two\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a charity steered towards encouraging and educating young women to consider their own education, safety and autonomy before entering into a serious relationship and\/or getting pregnant. Rebecca is a passionate believer in the impact of individuals despite the growing population.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2010\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-scaled.jpg 2010w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-1206x1536.jpg 1206w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_5324-2-1608x2048.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2010px) 100vw, 2010px\" \/><h3>CLIFFORD GARRARD<\/h3><p>Clifford is the Executive Director of&nbsp;Population Institute Canada&nbsp;and formerly Director of Canada\u2019s Foreign Service Middle East Relations Division.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"894\" height=\"1084\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Alisha_portrait.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Alisha_portrait.jpg 894w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Alisha_portrait-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Alisha_portrait-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Alisha_portrait-768x931.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><h3>Alisha Graves<\/h3><p>Alisha Graves is President of the California-based non-profit OASIS, and co-founder of the OASIS Initiative at University of California, Berkeley. OASIS aims to advance education and choice for women and girls in the Sahel. Alisha believes that freedom to make decisions about whether and when to have children is fundamental to women&#8217;s empowerment. It will also help stabilise global population. Alisha lectures internationally on population and development in the Sahel. She is a research fellow for Project Drawdown, and helped analyse the potential contribution of family planning and girls&#8217; education for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Previously, she worked to improve women&#8217;s access to misoprostol, a generic, essential medicine. In this role, she worked on drug registration, operations research, and advocating for evidence-based maternal health policies across seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She completed her MPH in International Maternal and Child Health at UC Berkeley in 2006. In her free time she enjoys snowboarding, wake surfing and dirt biking around Lake Tahoe.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/laurel0M2A1372-cream.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/laurel0M2A1372-cream.jpg 560w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/laurel0M2A1372-cream-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><h3>Laurel Hanscom<\/h3><p>Laurel Hanscom is the former CEO of the Global Footprint Network, leading its overall operations and strategy and contributing during her tenure to the production and improvement of the National Footprint Accounts. Before joining GFN\u2019s research team, Laurel worked in the Office of Strategic Information, Research &amp; Planning, at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, DC, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador. Her two years in the Ecuadorian Amazon were preceded by a brief career as an environmental analyst at AECOM, specializing in socioeconomic and environmental justice impacts. She holds a BA and MA in geography from San Diego State University, where her research focused on climate change vulnerability and agriculture.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2432\" height=\"2435\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square.jpg 2432w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square-1534x1536.jpg 1534w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Img3334square-2045x2048.jpg 2045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2432px) 100vw, 2432px\" \/><h3>GRAEME MAXTON<\/h3><p>Graeme is a past Secretary General of the Club of Rome and the author of several best-selling books on climate change and the economic system. He is an Advisory Board Member of the UNECE Pathways Project.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-scaled.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fred-Naggs-photo-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><h3>Fred Naggs<\/h3><p>Fred Naggs is a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, having retired after 42 years at the Museum in September 2016. Initially the Curator of non-marine Mollusca, Fred was appointed as the Biodiversity &amp; Conservation Officer in 2003. He established international collaboration and ran programmes throughout south and much of tropical southeast Asia. He is a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1651\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JaneOSullivan-2016-cropped.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JaneOSullivan-2016-cropped.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JaneOSullivan-2016-cropped-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JaneOSullivan-2016-cropped-847x1024.jpg 847w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JaneOSullivan-2016-cropped-768x928.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JaneOSullivan-2016-cropped-1271x1536.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><h3>JANE O&#8217;SULLIVAN<\/h3><p>Jane is an Executive Committee Member of Sustainable Population Australia and Honorary Senior Fellow at School of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Faculty of Science, University of Queensland.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"968\" height=\"1451\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WERHead231.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WERHead231.jpg 968w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WERHead231-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WERHead231-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WERHead231-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><h3>William Rees<\/h3><p>William Rees is a population ecologist, ecological economist, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British Columbia\u2019s School of Community and Regional Planning. He is a founding member and former President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; a founding Director of the One Earth Initiative; and a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute. Prof Rees\u2019 research focuses on the biophysical requirements for sustainability and the policy implications of global ecological trends. He is perhaps best known as the originator and co-developer with his graduate students, of \u2018ecological footprint analysis\u2019. EFA shows that the human enterprise is already in ecological \u2018overshoot\u2019 and that we would need 4.4 Earth-like planets to support just the present world population at Canadian material standards. Such findings led to a special focus on cities as particularly vulnerable components of the human ecosystem and on psycho-cognitive barriers to ecologically rational behaviour and policy. Prof Rees has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed and popular articles on these and related topics.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1889\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-scaled.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-1536x1134.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bill-Ryerson-2048x1511.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><h3>William Ryerson<\/h3><p>William N. Ryerson is Founder and President of Population Media Center (PMC), an organization that strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies. He also serves as Chair of The Population Institute in Washington, DC, which works in partnership with Population Media Center. Mr Ryerson has a 48-year history of working in the field of reproductive health, including three decades of experience adapting the Sabido methodology of social change communications to various cultural settings worldwide. He received a B.A. in Biology (Magna Cum Laude) from Amherst College and an M.Phil. in Biology from Yale University (with specialization in Ecology and Evolution).<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"918\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jeroen-van-den-Bergh-v2-2019.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jeroen-van-den-Bergh-v2-2019.jpg 918w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jeroen-van-den-Bergh-v2-2019-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jeroen-van-den-Bergh-v2-2019-768x857.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><h3>JEROEN VAN DEN BERGH<\/h3><p>Jeroen van den Bergh is ICREA Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (2007-present), and full Professor of Environmental Economics at VU University Amsterdam (1997-present). His research is on the interface of environmental economics, energy-climate studies and innovation research. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal&nbsp;<em>Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions<\/em>. He received the Royal\/Shell Prize 2002 for Sustainability Research, IEC\u2019s Sant Jordi Environmental Prize 2011 and an honorary doctorate from the Open University of the Netherlands. He currently runs a large ERC Advanced Grant on the topic \u201cBehavioural-evolutionary analysis of climate policy \u2013 bounded rationality, markets and social interactions\u201d. His latest book is &#8216;Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences&#8217; (Cambridge University Press, October 2018).<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-person\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1580\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1580px-Professor_Peter_Wadhams_at_COP22_30972177906.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1580px-Professor_Peter_Wadhams_at_COP22_30972177906.jpg 1580w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1580px-Professor_Peter_Wadhams_at_COP22_30972177906-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1580px-Professor_Peter_Wadhams_at_COP22_30972177906-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1580px-Professor_Peter_Wadhams_at_COP22_30972177906-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1580px-Professor_Peter_Wadhams_at_COP22_30972177906-1536x1050.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1580px) 100vw, 1580px\" \/><h3>Peter Wadhams<\/h3><p>Peter Wadhams is Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Peter is the president of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans Commission on Sea Ice and Coordinator for the International Programme for Antarctic Buoys.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-light-blue-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-grid grid grid-3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-post-teaser\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/what-we-do\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>What we do<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-768x288.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-1536x576.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/img>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Population Matters vision is a world in which humanity lives fairly and sustainably with nature and each other.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-post-teaser\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/the-facts-numbers\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>Population: the numbers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-Moscow-Russia-September-208762624_0-768x288.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-Moscow-Russia-September-208762624_0-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-Moscow-Russia-September-208762624_0-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-Moscow-Russia-September-208762624_0-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-Moscow-Russia-September-208762624_0-1536x576.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-Moscow-Russia-September-208762624_0.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/img>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Global population is still rising by more than 80 million\u00a0a year &#8211; and is most likely to continue rising for the rest of this century unless we take action. Find out where the growth is happening and why.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-post-teaser\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/our-team\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>Our team<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PM-Logo-768x960.png\" class=\"wp-image-16598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PM-Logo-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PM-Logo-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PM-Logo-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/PM-Logo.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/img>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Our team of full and part-time staff develops and implements our strategy, under the supervision of our board.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Expert Advisory Group\u00a0gives us an independent perspective on our strategy, performance, and major decisions.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1610,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1608","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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