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JOHANNA RODE-WHITE
Co-Chair

Cologne Zoo

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AGUS JATI
Deputy Chair
Indonesia
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MATTHIAS MARKOLF
Species Survival Officer and Red List Coordinator
Cologne Zoo
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VACANT
Newsletter Editor in Chief 
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VACANT
Programme Officer
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PARAG JYOTI DEKA
Co-Chair

Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme

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RAFAEL REYNA-HURTADO
Coordinator for Africa

ECOSUR, Universidad Campeche

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FERRAN JORI
Animal Health Coordinator

University of Pretoria

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JÖRG BECKMANN
Ex situ Coordinator

Nuremberg Zoo

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VACANT
Coordinator for South and South East Asia

Members

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ADYAH NINGTYAS| Prigen Conservation Breeding Arc, Indonesia

AHMAD FAISAL  | Wildlife Conservation Society, Indonesia

ALASTAIR MACDONALD | University of Edinburgh, UK; EAZA Pigs & Peccaries Taxon Advisory Group Chair

ALISA KLAMM | German Association of Wildlife Scientists, Germany

ALYS GRANADOS | Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Colombia, Canada

Primary expertise: Pig responses to resource availability

ANAGAW ATICKEM MESHESHA | University of Oslo, Norway

ANDREA MONACO | Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome, Italy​

Primary expertise: Ecology, conservation and management of wild boar and other large mammals (recent focus: on management of wild boar to control African Swine Fever epidemic); management of alien invasive species. 

ANH GALAT-LUONG | French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development and University of Orléans, France

Primary expertise: West Africa; invasive and other problematic species, genes and disease; research publications

ANTOINE SOURON | University of Bordeaux, France

Primary expertise: Taxonomy and phylogeny based on craniomandibular and dental remains; (paleo)ecological reconstructions (biogeochemistry, dental microwear)

APOORVA KULKARNI | The University of Oxford, UK

ARIANNA VICARI | Wildlife Ecology Lab, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic

Primary expertise: Spatiotemporal analysis of camera-trap data of the common warthog in West Africa, Senegal

BERTIE FERNS | Cikananga Wildlife Center, Indonesia

Primary expertise: Conservation breeding and captive management of the Javan Warty Pig Sus verrucosus; Knowledge of threats to wild pig populations in Indonesia, particularly on Java Island

CARL TRAEHOLT | Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark

CECILIA AGUILAR-VEGA | Spain

CLAUDE FISCHER | School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape of Geneva (HEPIA), HES-SO - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland

Primary expertise: Movement ecology and census methods

CURBY SIMERSON | Zoological Society of San Diego, USA

DEREK R. RISCH | USA

DHRITIMAN DAS | Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, India

Primary expertise: Pygmy hog ecology, grassland habitat ecology, restoration ecology, population monitoring through sign surveys, camera trapping and radio telemetry

EMILIA LASTICA | University of the Philippines, Philippines

EMMANUEL SCHUTZ | D'Aboville Foundation and Demo Farm Inc., Philippines

Primary expertise: Ecology, socio-environmental project management and coordination

ERIK MEIJAARD | People and Nature Consulting International, Indonesia

FERNANDO GARCIA GIL | D’Aboville Foundation, Philippines

Primary expertise: Wildlife conservation and population monitoring

FLORIAN GBODJA CODJA | University of Abomey-Calav, National University of Agriculture (UNA), Benin

FRANK DRYGALA | Association for Nature and Biodiversity, Germany

Primary expertise: Spatial ecology of mammals (GPS/VHF telemetry, camera trapping)

FREDDY PATTISELANNO | Universitas Negeri Papua, Indonesia

GERARD GALAT | Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France

GONO SEMIADI | BRIN - Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Indonesia

GOUTAM NARAYAN | Ecosystems India, India

GRAHAM KERLEY | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

GROENEN MARTIN | Wageningen University, Netherlands

HANNAH KHWAJA | Chester Zoo, UK

HARIYAWAN AGUNG WAHYUDI | Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark

ITO MASAAKI | Babirusa Foundation Tokyo, Japan

Primary expertise: Anatomy, animal behaviour

JAIME GONGORA | University of Sydney, Australia

JEAN-PIERRE D'HUART | Conservation Consultancy Services SPRL, Belgium

Primary expertise: Ecology and conservation of giant forest hogs and warthogs

JEFF HOLLAND | Los Angeles Zoo, USA

JEFFRINE ROVIE RYAN JAPNING | Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC); Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia

JEREMY RINGMA | Australia/ USA

JOCHEN MENNER | Prigen Conservation Breeding Ark of Taman Safari Indonesia

Primary expertise: Ex-situ conservation

JOSÉ MANUEL SÁNCHEZ-VIZCAÍNO | Spain

JOSEPH FORYS |  Audubon Institute, USA

Primary expertise: Babirusa management and conservation

KEVIN MOURELLE |  Minuartia (Environmental Consultancy), Spain; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany

Primary expertise: European wild boar movement ecology, spatial modelling, Euroboar scientific coordinator and data curator

KRISTIN LEUS | CPSG, EAZA, Copenhagen Zoo

Primary expertise: 

LAURENT FRANTZ | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany & Queen Mary University of London, UK

Primary expertise: Genetics, taxonomy

LIDIA PRZYBYLSKA | Wroclaw Zoo, Poland

LYNN CLAYTON | Indonesia

MARIO MELLETTI | African Buffalo Interest Group

Primary expertise: Mammal ecology, surveys, animal behaviour, conservation ecology

MARKUS HANDSCHUH | Germany

MASSIMO SCANDURA | University of Sassari, Italy

MATHIEU SARASA | BEOPS, France

Primary expertise: Wildlife monitoring, conservation status, parasitism, animal behaviour and species interactions

MATTHEW LUSKIN | University of California Berkeley, USA

MATTHEW WARD | Talarak Foundation Inc., Philippines

Primary expertise: Reintroduction, ecology and human-wildlife impact of Visayan warty pigs

MELISSA R. PRICE | USA

MICHAEL SOMERS | University of Pretoria, South Africa

OLIVER KEULING | Institute for Terrestrial & Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany

Primary expertise: Biology of wild boar Sus scrofa in Central Europe, wildlife management, monitoring

RALF LOHE | Germany

Primary expertise: Sustainable use, human-wildlife conflict

RESIT SOZER | Cikananga Integrated Conservation Foundation, Indonesia

RIANJA RAKOTOARIVONY | Madagascar

Primary expertise: ecology and epidemiology of the bushpig

ROLAND WIRTH | ZGAP, Germany

ROSIE DRINKWATER | Animal Systems Genomics, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Primary expertise: Conservation genomics

SABHRINA GITA ANINTA | Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

SANDRA BLOME | Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health. Germany

Primary expertise: Transboundary pig diseases, experimental studies with wild suids under high-containment conditions, vaccination including bait vaccination of wildlife

SELMA MAAROUF | PhD Researcher in Wild Boar Ecology and Genetics, Morocco

Primary expertise: Wild boar ecology, population monitoring, conservation genetics, and human–wildlife interactions

SHUNJO TAKAHASHI | University of Nara, Japan

SIEW TE WONG | Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Society, Malaysia

SONIA LOMBARDI | IUL University of Florence, Italy

STEFANO FOCARDI | CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sezione di Firenze, Italy

Primary expertise: Behaviour and ecology of large mammals with special reference to wild boar, fallow deer and roe deer; mathematical modelling of wild population dynamics; movement ecology with special relevance to Levy walks; statistical analysis (Montecarlo similuations, circular statistics, structural equation modelling); management of wildlife populations (quotas, adaptive management theory, population assessment)

STEPHANIE HULL | North Carolina Zoo, USA

Primary expertise: Visayan warty pig keeper

THIEMO BRAASCH | Wildlife BiologistGermany​

THOMAS M. BUTYNSKI | East Africa Primate Diversity & Conservation Program

Primary expertise: Biogeography, taxonomy, evolution, ecology, and behaviour of warthogs

TRI SAYEKTI | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Natural Resources Conservation Agency of South Sulawesi (BBKSDA Sulawesi Selatan), Indonesia

UMBERTO ALBARELLA | University of Sheffield, UK

Primary expertise: Zooarchaeology, Domestication, Eurasian Wild Boar

VINCENT OBANDA | Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya

VIRGINIA FRIEDRICHS Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany

Primary expertise: Wildlife immunology/virology (main work ASFV)

WAYAN BALIK | Yayasan Babirusa, Indonesia

YUDI IRAWAN | Javan Species Recovery Programme (Chester Zoo), Indonesia

YUUJI KODERA | Utsunomiya University, Japan

YVONNE DE JONG | East Africa Primate Diversity & Conservation Program & Lolldaiga Hills Research Programme, Kenya

Primary expertise: Biogeography and conservation of warthogs

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