Michael Obersteiner is leader of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program at IIASA. He joined IIASA's Forestry Program (FOR) in 1993 and has been leading the Group on Global Land-Use Modeling and Environmental Economics since 2001. His background includes the fields of global terrestrial ecosystems and economics, specializing in REDD and REDD+ modeling as well as policy assessments with particular expertise on the tropical forest zones of South America, Africa and Asia.

Florian Kraxner has been Acting Deputy Program Leader of IIASA's ESM Program since January 2011. His background is in forestry with a specialization in mountain risk engineering and watershed management. Mr. Kraxner has been coordinator of IIASA's EU Projects for Carbon Sequestration Potentials, for Benefits through Global Earth Observation and for Climate Change & Terrestrial Adaptation & Mitigation in Europe.

Aline is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA. Her background is in development economics with a special focus on trade policies and rural development. She has contributed to the development of the GLOBIOM model and to several GLOBIOM-related projects since 2008, in particular for Congo Basin countries. For the REDD-PAC project, Aline will work on the refinement of IIASA tools at the country level.

Géraldine Bocquého is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA. Her background is in life sciences and environmental and resource economics, with a special focus during her PhD on farmers' adoption of perennial energy crops under risk. Before joining IIASA, she was involved in the design and implementation of agricultural policies and programmes. For the REDD-PAC project, Geraldine will be responsible for the co-management of the project and will also contribute to the refinement of IIASA tools at the country level.

Steffen Fritz is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA. He is the initiator and co-ordinator of Geo-Wiki.org, a global land cover validation tool based on crowdsourcing. He published in the field of earth observation, crowdsourcing, fuzzy logic, remoteness mapping, global and regional vegetation monitoring, crop yield and crop acreage estimations, and wild land research.

Petr is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA. He studied agricultural economics and developed specific skills in land use economics and spatially explicit optimization models. For the REDD-PAC project, Petr will help with the development of the GLOBIOM model.

Mr. Pirker graduated in forest management from the University of Eastern Finland and AgroParisTech. Before coming to IIASA, he worked in the private sector with a focus on REDD+ and spatially-explicit analyses and land use change modeling. For REDD-PAC, Mr. Pirker is in charge of co-project management and the adaptation of IIASAs tools and models to the regional framework.

Sylvain Leduc is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA. He is specialized in energy engineering and more specifically bioenergy systems. He is the developer of the BeWhere model, a techno-economic model which optimizes he geographical location of bio-energy production plants.

Mykola Gusti is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA and works on the G4M forest growth model. He has a strong background in system analysis mathematics and experience in GHG inventory and REDD modeling.

Ian McCallum is a Research Scholar at the ESM Program at IIASA. His background is in forest information and remote sensing. His current research interests include the use of geographic information and earth observation systems in terrestrial biospheric studies. In particular, issues related to greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol, land cover and forest ecosystems.