Boards
Recent Science Board Addition
Brian Fisher, Assistant Curator of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences,
has recently accepted a position on our Science Board. He has been extremely helpful moving
forward our E-Type Initiative. His inventory work in Africa and Madagascar demonstrates the
feasibility and challenges of conducting global inventories and bears direct relevance to the
core of ALL Species endeavors. Brian is an ant systematist who specializes in the large-scale discovery, description
and naming of African and Malagasy ants, and applying maps of diversity patterns to land
management and conservation priority setting. He also has particular interest in the
evolution of the early lineages of ants and is dedicated to instructing the next
generation of ant systematists.
Recent Funding Board Addition
Miguel Reynal of la La Barra de Maldonado, Uruguay, is executive
president of Foundation ECOS, a non profit educational foundation
focused on sustainable development and environmental management for
decision makers in South America. He was founding president of
Foundation Vida Silvestre Argentina, the foremost Argentine
environmental NGO and a WWF Associate Organization, where he serves
on the executive council and board. Mr. Reynal was general
representative of Bank of Indo-Suez for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay,
Paraguay, and Bolivia, he also served on the board of Seguros del
Interior, S.A., an insurance company, for many years. CEO of Austral
Airlines, South Americas second-largest private airline, and of Sol
Jet Brazil and Sol Jet Argentina.
He has spoken at numerous
conferences, published several articles, and received awards for his
environmental and conservation work, including the United Nations
Global 500 Environment Award. A member of the National Council of the
World Wildlife Fund US Mr. Reynal received a B.A. in economics from
Harvard University.
New Advisors to ALL this quarter
Ian Bowles
Ian is a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
and a Senior Advisor to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He attended the Harvard Summit last fall.
Joaquin Cifuentes
Dr. Joaquin Cifuentes is Curator of the FCME Herbarium at the School of Sciences of the National
University (UNAM) Mexico and Head of the Comparative Biology Department.
Ana-Luisa Guzmán
Ana-Luisa Guzmán is Projects Evaluation Director at CONABIO
(Mexican National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity). Formerly,
she worked at the National Institute of Ecology, the Mexican Academy of Sciences,
CONACYT (Science and Technology National Council) and the Science Communication Center at UNAM
(National University of Mexico).
Michael A. Keller
Michael Keller is the Ida M. Green University Librarian, Director of
Academic Information Resources, Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University
Press. These titles touch on his major professional preoccupations: commitment to support
of research, teaching and learning; effective deployment of information technology hand-in-hand
with materials; active involvement in the evolution and growth of scholarly communication.
Stafford Matthews
Stafford Matthews is a technology transactions and commercial partner
in the San Francisco office of the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster
LLP and is legal counsel for ALL Species.
John Peterson Myers
Mr. Myers is former Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a private philanthropy that
supported work to maintain biodiversity, protect the earth's climate, develop and implement
economic policies that support environmental protection, protect children's health from
environmental threats, and build constituencies committed to environmental protection.
He currently is a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation and a Senior Fellow at Commonweal.
Edna Naranjo-Garcia
Edna Naranjo-Garcia is curator of the Coleccion Nacional de Moluscos (NationalCollection of Mollusks),
Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonomade Mexico. Her main research is on systematics and
biogeography of terrestrialmollusks, she also adventures into the freshwater realm.
Fredrik Ronquist
Fredrik Ronquist is currently Professor in Systematic Zoology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
He is heading up the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative.
