Chair: Nigel Maxted nigel.maxted@dial.pipex.com   Vice-Chair: José María Iriondo Alegría jose.iriondo@urjc.es

Country	Name	Organization	Contact Details	Expertise	Remarks
Azerbaijan	Mr Aydin Asgarov Observer	Genetic Resources Institute 155, Azadlig ave. AZ1106 Baku Azerbaijan	Tel: (994) 503130770 Fax: (994) 124499221 askerov1@mail.ru	Pollicy and law, Other: taxonomist, botanist
Germany	Ms Nadine Bernhardt	Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants Institute for Breeding Research on Agricultural Crops Erwin-Baur-Str. 27 06484 Quedlinburg Germany	Tel: (49) (0) 3946/47-701 Fax: (49) (0) 3946/47-255 nadine.bernhardt@julius-kuehn.de	Crop specialist, other: evolutionary biologist
Germany	Mr Rudolf Vögel	Landesamt für Umwelt, Gesundheit und Verbraucherschutz Brandenburg (LUGV) Abt. Technischer Umweltschutz (TUS) Ref. Klimaschutz, Umweltbeobachtung und -toxikologie (T2) Tramper Chaussee 2 16225 Eberswalde Germany	Tel: (49) 333427784.23 Fax: (49) 3334662650 rudolf.voegel@lugv.brandenburg.de	Policy and law, other (NGO)
Italy	Lorenzo Raggi	Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali (DSA3); Unità di Ricerca - Genetica Agraria e Biotecnologie Genetiche Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Perugia Borgo XX Giugno, 74 06121 Perugia Italy	Tel: (39) 0755856218 lorenzo.raggi@unipg.it	Genebank Manager, Crop Specialist, other: Geneticist
Italy	Mr Giovanni G. Vendramin	Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse (IBBR-CNR) Via Amendola 165/A 70126 Bari Italy	Tel: (39) 3409270215 giovanni.vendramin@ibbr.cnr.it	Genebank Curator, Other: Plant geneticist
Slovakia	Mr René Hauptvogel	National Agriculture and Food Centre – Research Institute of Plant Production Bratislavská 122 92168 Piestany Slovakia	Tel: (421) 33 7722311 Fax: (421) 33 7726306 rene.hauptvogel@nppc.sk	Genebank Curator,Other expertise
Slovakia	Ms Miroslava  Hrdlicová	National Agriculture and Food Centre – Research Institute of Plant Production Bratislavská cesta 122, 92168  Piešťany Slovakia	Tel: (421) 337947327 miroslava.hrdlicova@nppc.sk	Crop specialists, other expertise
Sweden	Mr Mora Aronsson	Swedish Species information Center SLU Box 7007 750 07 Uppsala Sweden	Tel: (46) 18673414 Fax: (46) 18673537 Mora.Aronsson@slu.se	Information/Documentation, Policy and law, Other: plant taxonomy
Türkiye	Mr Kürşad  Özbek	Turkish Seed Gene Bank  Ankara Türkiye	ozbekkursad@yahoo.com	Other expertise: Genebank Manager
United Kingdom	Ms Shelagh Kell	Edgbaston B15 2TT Birmingham United Kingdom	Tel: 0044-1297-678117 s.kell@bham.ac.uk	Other: conservation planning/ in situ conservation