Forestry, Agronomy, climate change, natural resources management.

Dr. Inge Jonckheere was born in Ghent (Belgium), she got a Master degree in Environmental Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium in 2000, and obtained her PhD in Applied Bioscience and Engineering in 2005, after studying the assessment of biophysical variables for forest monitoring using field measurements and remote sensing techniques at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

She worked at the GIS laboratory of the Universita degli di Milano, Italy, and has been Research associate and consequently Team leader of the Geomatics Group at the Department of Land Management at the KUL. She has been Lecturer at the Biosystems Department of the KUL, while being a Science Programme Manager at the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France, in the Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences (LESC) Unit. She was granted a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders, and visited FAO as a Remote sensing expert in the Forestry Department last year for 7 months.

Since 2002 he has attended scientific and technical negotiations under UNFCCC and in these years has been a member of the European Commission, Italian, Papua New Guinea and Max Planck Institute delegations. He also participates in the IPCC Team on GHG Inventories on Land Uses as a delegate for Coalition for Rainforest Nations. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Carbon Sink Inventory and is also working with Bolivia, Indonesia, Mexico, Panama, Papua New Guinea processes to establish a national monitoring system to assess land use carbon stock changes. He is an author of almost 40 scientific papers with one article published in Nature and one in Science. His background is Forest Ecology (PhD at University of Padova) with strong expertise in Remote Sensing. Currently he is working at the Geography Department of University of Alcalà de Henares, Madrid, Spain, and is coordinating the Scientific Technical Unit of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations. He has also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, at Istituto Agronomico per Oltremare of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Florence, Italy.

Danilo is a specialist in monitoring,assessment, reporting and verification (MARV) who has been working in various international initiatives for reducing emissions form deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). His work in FOM will be provide MARV technical backstopping to countries and revision of tools and technical inputs to the REDD processes, through the UN-REDD international partnership (UNDP-FAO-UNEP). He will be working closely with the national forest monitoring and assessment (NFMA) and the global forest resources assessment (FRA) teams and FAO's UN-REDD coordination team.

Danilo has a Forestry Science bachelors degree from the University "La Tuscia", Viterbo, a Masters in Landscape Planning from the University "La Sapienza", Rome and a PhD in Forest Ecology (thesis on fores fire/carbon cycle) from the University of Padova. Immediately prior to joining FAO Danilo was the coordinator of the Science and Technology Unit of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, Colombia University, New York whilst holding a research and education post in the Geography Department of the University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain. His research projects focused upon wildfire GHG emissions in Europe and land use changes in Spain. In collaboration with GTZ, INPE and DFID, he has been active in coordinating international workshops on the IPCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory Guidelines and the UNFCCC reporting system and attended the scientific and technical negotiations of the UNFCCC as a delegate and an expert in the technicalscientific group working on Land Use and Land Use Change and Forestry under the UNFCCC. He has been a prolific author of scientific papers and co-authored the GOFCGOLD "REDD Sourcebook".

Former posts held by Danilo include as Research Scientist specializing in forest resources assessment (combining field assessment and remote sensing) at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry/Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Jena, Germany; as TechnicalAdvisor to the Forestry and Climate Change Project, Indonesia; and as a Research Scientist at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy working on Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring.

I have appointed Jim Carle to supervise Danilo's work programme and inputs to the UNREDD working in close collaboration with Forestry Department and Natural Resources Department colleagues. On a temperary basis, he will work from office C-382.