Steering committee 

  • Mark Marissink, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency; (chair)
  • Tom Barry, CAFF International Secretariat; 
  • Cindy Dickson, Arctic Athabaskan Council; 
  • Vicky Johnston, Environment Canada; 
  • Aulikki Alanen, Finnish Ministry of the Environment; 
  • Inge Thaulow, Ministry of Housing, Nature and Environment, Greenland;  
  • Evgeny Syroechkovskiy, Russian Institute for Nature Conservation; 
  • Gilbert Castellanos, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Previous steering committee members

  • Bridget Larocque, Gwich’in Council International;
  • Trish Hayes, Environment Canada; 
  • Risa Smith, Environment Canada; 
  • Janet Hohn, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 
  • Ævar Petersen, Icelandic Institute of Natural History;
  • Esko Jaakkola, Finnish Ministry of the Environment; 
  • Tiina Kurvitz, UNEP GRID-Arendal; 
  • Christoph Zöckler, UNEP WCMC.

Lead countries 

Canada, Finland, Greenland, Sweden and the United States

Funding and support

The Arctic Biodiversity Assessment has received financial support from the following sources: Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America, the Nordic Council of Ministers, and the Chief Scientist was financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency as part of the environmental support programme DANCEA.