Cooney, Rosie Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales
	Dr. Rosie Cooney is an independent consultant in biodiversity policy and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Resources, Environment and Society at the Australian National University and the FATE (Future of Australia's Threatened Ecosystems) Program at the University of New South Wales. Major areas on which f her research are international and national environmental policy, the relationship between biodiversity conservation and local livelihoods and economies, sustainable use and trade of wildlife, and the precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. She recently coordinated an international collaborative initiative developing guidance for applying the precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management, a partnership of IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Fauna & Flora International, TRAFFIC and ResourceAfrica. She has also developed international wildlife trade policy for WWF-the conservation organisation, carried out research on international biodiversity conservation law and policy at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law in Cambridge, and carried out a range of consultancies for international environmental organisations. Rosie holds the degrees of BSc (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University and a PhD in Zoology from Cambridge. She is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Sustainable Use Specialist Group.
Diong, Cheong Hoong Assoc. Professor of Biology NIE/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Dr. Diong conducted one of the only autecological studies ever undertaken for the wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Peninsular Malaysia in the 1960s. He obtained his PhD at the University of Hawaii, and joined the faculty of NTU, where his research interests have covered both the ecology of wild pigs in Asia, as well as herpetological studies in Peninsular Malaysia and elsewhere. He was formerly a member and Regional Chair of the IUCN/SSC Pigs, Peccaries & Hippos Specialist Group. He has been working since 2004 on a joint project with Grand Perfect Conservation (Diana James Junau) on the population biology of the bearded pig (Sus barbatus) in the Planted Forest Zone, Bintulu Division.
Ferner, John Thomas More College Highland Heights, Kentucky USA
	Dr. Ferner is a native of Ohio in the USA whose main interest is herpetology (lizard taxonomy and ecology). He obtained his PhD at the University of Colorado in the 1970s, and is a Professor at Thomas More College in Northern Kentucky. His fieldwork and teaching has taken him both to Africa and the Philippines. He is currently an adjunct Curator of Herpetology at the Collections and Research Division of the Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). He has had years of experience in the management of biological field stations and field collections, and is collaborating with Grand Perfect (Azizan Juhin) in the design and implementation of the GP Binyo-Penyilam Field Station.
Gathorne Cranbrook MA PhD DSc(Hon) JBS PNBS Chairman, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, The Natural History Museum (London)
	Datuk Seri Lord Cranbrook first come to Sarawak in 1956, to take up an informal post as Technical Assistant to the Curator of the Sarawak Museum, has followed many lines of study on the natural biodiversity of Borneo and South-east Asia. Two of his special interests are cave swiftlets; and the mammals, present and past. He was external supervisor (to Dr Lim Chan Koon) in research at Bukit Sarang, leading to successful management of on the wild populations of black-nest swiftlets. His work on the living mammals was summarized in his authoritative "Annotated Checklist of the Mammals of Borneo" (1965, reprinted 1977). He has also spent 50 years studying the fossil fauna of the region, including mammals recovered in cave archaeological sites excavated in Sarawak and Sabah. This work provided insights on evolutionary trends among mammals in Borneo, including morphological change, ecological adaptations, range movements and prehistoric extinctions. Implications of this research on biodiversity in managed forests will be the subject of his Conference presentation.
Hall, Graham Wildlife Management International
	Dr. Graham Hall received his PhD in molecular genetics at the University of Western Australia. He has had a wide range of experience in field biology, from genetics to applied entomology and game management. Prior to his work with Wildlife Management International, he was Senior Game Management Services Officer in the Tasmanian Game Management Unit, of the Tasmanian Department of Wildlife and Environment in Longford. He is the principal consultant for the Biodiversity Management Plan for Grand Perfect and the Planted Forest Zone, Bintulu Division.
Han, Kwai Hin Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur
	Dr. K.H. Han studied at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malsysia’s Sabah Campus, where he conducted research projects on the reproductive cycle of sea snakes, and subsequently, a postgraduate study of the population genetics of the tree shrews (Tupaiidae). He obtained his PhD on the paleobiogeography and population genetics of the sciurid squirrels of Southeast Asia. He is currently a Lecturer at the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur, and has served as a collaborative partner since early 2005 with Grand Perfect (GP staff : Belden Giman and Roslina Ragai) in taxonomic surveys of small mammals.
Helgen, Kristofer Division of Mammals, National Of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington
	Dr. Kristofer Helgen has been a long-term collaborator and co-worker of bat expert, Dr. Don E. Wilson. Kris has well established international reputation of his own in mammalian systematics because of his relentless pursuit of new discoveries. Most recently, he was a principal researcher in an expedition to West Papua, where many new mammal species were discovered in a remote highlands area. With Don Wilson, he had identified 23 species of bats (at least one that is previously unknown to science) from the Bukit Sarang Conservation Area of the Planted Forest Zone.
Inger, Robert F. Curator Emeritus, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Il, USA
	Dr. Inger has worked in Borneo for more than 50 years studying its herpetofauna. His specialty is the taxonomy of frogs, and he has given names to at least two dozen species, while several species and one genus of frogs, bear his name. that he has met over the past year, while working in the forests of the PFZ. Dr. Inger is the world’s foremost authority on Bornean frogs, who has published a significant literature on the Bornean frogs. He is the senior author of A Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo, a popular local field guide. He has conducted in depth inventories with GP Conservation staff (Chin Sing Yun) on the herpetofauna of the Planted Forest Zone since 2004.
Lardner, Björn Lund University (Sweden) Ecologist, Brown Tree Snake Control Project, Guam (USA)
	Dr. Björn Lardner has worked in Southeast Asia for about 15 years, studying birds, reptiles and amphibians both in Borneo and in nearby Sulawesi. His specialty is the acoustic behaviour of frogs based on digital recordings from the forests of the PFZ. Working in deep forest from 8pm-2am, he has also encountered numerous lizards and snakes, which have been documented in remarkable photos. Dr. Lardner published his remarkable work on the vocalizations of the tree-hole frog, Metaphrynella sundana (of Borneo) in the international journal, Nature.
Lim, Chan Koon Senior Planner, Sarawak Forestry Corporation, Kuching
	Dr. Lim is one of Borneo’s foremost experts on edible-nest swiftlets, and has pioneered the sustainable harvest programmes for these valuable nests, to ensure the long-term conservation of cave swiftlets in Sarawak. One of his first efforts upon receiving his PhD at the University of Kent in UK was to set up a sustainable harvest programme at the Bukit Sarang Conservation Area. He now works as a Senior Planning Manager for the Sarawak Forestry Corporation. He has been a close advisor to the GP Conservation Programme in sustainable use, especially of the edible birds?nests of Bukit Sarang Conservation Area.
McShea, William Conservation research Center Smithsonian Institution Front Royal, Virginia
	Dr. William McShea is a renowned deer biologist who has worked both in the eastern United States and in Asia, and is an expert on large mammal impacts on forested landscapes. He received his PhD from the State University of New York (Binghamton), and has been a Research Scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park and the Conservation Research Center for the last 15 years. He has, since 2002, served as a Guest Research Scientist, at the College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. He has been a collaborative partner with Grand Perfect (Belden Giman) in camera trapping surveys and radio collaring studies of large mammals in the Planted Forest Zone since early 2005.
Sheldon, Frederick H. Director, Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University (USA)
	Dr. Fred Sheldon received his PhD at Yale University, studying the molecular systematics of herons. During the early 1980s, he made extensive taxonomic collections of the avifauna in Sabah, the results of which has been subsequently published as a valuable monograph. Dr. Sheldon has had more than 20 years research experience in Bornean birds, and most recently has begun to research the impacts on birds of fragmented forest landscapes such as those of tree plantations in Borneo. serves as a collaborative partner with Grand Perfect (Angela Paul) in bird surveys of the Planted Forest Zone, Bintulu Division.
Stuebing, Robert Conservation Manager, Grand Perfect Sdn. Bhd., Bintulu, Sarawak
	Mr. Rob Stuebing has been the Conservation Officer for Grand Perfect Sdn. Bhd. since 2004. From 1973-1992, he taught vertebrate biology, ecology and wildlife management in several Malaysia universities, and has also served as Curator of Zoology at the Sabah Museum. In 1993, he joined the ITTO unit in the Forest Department Sarawak for biodiversity surveys and to develop a management plan for Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary. He has been a biodiversity consultant in Timber Certification assessment in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and has published a broad range of articles on the vertebrate fauna of Borneo, and two field guides (with Robert F. Inger, on the frogs, and the snakes of Borneo).
Tan, Benito Professor of Botany National University of Singapore Keeper of The Herbarium Singapore Herbarium and Botanical Gardens
	Dr. Tan is an international expert on mosses and a world authority for Southeast Asia. He was obtained his PhD at the University of Vancouver, and after teaching at the University of Los Baños in the Phillippines, he served as a curator in the Herbarium at Harvard University, USA. Over the last ten years, he has been attached to the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research as its Deputy Director. He has worked and published on the mosses of Southeast and East Asia for most of his career, and recently has joined the Singapore Herbarium. He has joined with GP Conservation staff (Joannes Unggang) and former Singapore Herbarium Keeper, Dr. Ruth Kiew, in conducting field inventories of the flora of the Planted Forest Zone since 2004.
Tan, Heok Hui Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore
	Dr. Tan (Research Officer of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research) is an expert on Borneo freshwater fish, and a specialist on the fighting fish of the Genus Betta. He has also studied freshwater fish in numerous countries, from Southern China to Eastern Indonesia. His latest book, The Borneo Suckers, is an outstanding contribution to the taxonomy of the little known Bornean endemic fish genus, Gastromyzon, of the family Balitoridae. He has been the principal researcher under GP’s MOU with the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity research, conducting field inventories of the fish fauna of the Planted Forest Zone.
Vermeulen, Jaap Jan National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden
	Dr. Jaap Jan Vermeulen received his PhD in plant taxonomy from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he once again resides. His earlier background is geology and paleontology, which has given him a unique perspective in his research on flora and fauna. Dr. Vermeulen is a world authority on Asian orchids, as well as an expert on limestone mollusks (snails) of Southeast Asia. Until late 2005, he worked as a Senior Research Officer at (GP MOU partner institution) Singapore Botanic Gardens, during which time (in 2005) he joined in collaborative studies of the limestone snails (Diana James Junau) of the Planted Forest Zone.
Wilson, Don Ellis National Museum Of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
	Dr. Don Wilson received his PhD from the University of New Mexico, and is currently a senior research scientist at the US National Museum, specializing in bats and other small mammals. He is an international expert on bat taxonomy and systematic, and his research has taken him all over the world, but particularly in tropical regions. He has been a collaborative partner with Grand Perfect Sdn. Bhd. (Chin Shin Yun and Belden Giman) in mammal surveys of both Conservation Areas and the Acacia forests of the Planted Forest Zone, Bintulu Division.
Wu, Jianguo (Jingle) Professor, Faculty of Ecology, Evolution, & Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, and Global Institute for Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
	Dr. Wu Jianguo received his PhD from Miami University (Ohio) and subsequently continued his research in conservation related issues in landscape ecology. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Landscape Ecology, and has published a great volume of scientific work on patterns as processes in the biological communities at a landscape level. His scientific credentials are almost too numerous to mention, but he currently a member of many professional bodies, including the Ecological Society of America, the International Association for Ecology, the International Association for Landscape Ecology, International Society for Ecological Modelling, and several others. His latest interest is the application of metapopulation theory to conservation of biodiversity in landscapes.