Douglas Taylor
Former Secretary, STAP for the period November 2006 to August 2010 |
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Douglas Taylor, past STAP Secretary, is a natural resources management scientist originating from London, England, and he was educated at the University of Sussex as a biologist specializing in plant biochemistry, applied to agriculture (BSc. 1972, D.Phil, 1977). In 1980 he joined the University of Nairobi as a lecturer under the UK technical support programme to Kenya, working on rice genetic resources supported by the IBPGR (now Biodiversity International) and on ODA semi-arid land forestry projects. In 1989 he joined IUCN as Chief Technical Advisor seconded to the Uganda Ministry of Environment, leading the National Wetlands Programme and co-drafting the first African national wetlands policy. From 1991 to 2000 in Somerset County Council, UK, he led a partnership of local communities and national agencies working on wetland wise use, managed a flood defence policy team and was a member of national and regional policy committees on fisheries, coastal and flood defence. From 2000 to 2006 he was International Science Coordinator (and deputy CEO), Wetlands International. He led work on satellite-based inventory, managed the official Ramsar Convention on Wetlands data system, was a member of the Convention’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, a contributor to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment wetland chapter and remains a member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management.
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David Cunningham Former Program Officer September 2008 to November 2010
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David Cunningham joined the STAP Secretariat in September 2008 as the Program Officer for Biodiversity. Prior to joining UNEP, David worked for the Austrialian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry for eight years. He held a range of positions in the Department's science agency including Program Leader, Land Management Sciences and Program Leader, Biosecurity and Information Sciences. His most recent role was as General Manager of the Biosecurity and Social Sciences Branch. He has PhD in biology from Central Queensland University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in Japan. David has represented Australia at meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity's working group on genetic resources access and benefit sharing and the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology.
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