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Advisory Board on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources at the BMELV

• Secretariat of the Advisory Board
• Members
• • Chairperson of the Advisory Board
  • Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board
  • Members of the Advisory Board

The Advisory Board on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources performs the task of counselling the BMELV on general and fundamental matters concerning the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources.

The Board provides advice in the fields of food, agriculture and forestry and for corresponding measures at national, EU and international levels. The Board focuses in particular on the following issues of conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources:

• basic biological and ecological aspects;
• economic, social and ethical assessment;
• development of science and technology, including genetics and breeding;
• land use, landscape design and rural areas;
• importance for raw materials, energy, food and health;
• support strategies and concepts;
• legal issues;
• information and communication, marketing.

Further Information:

Opinions and statements of the Board.

Secretariat of the Advisory Board

If you have any questions, please contact:

Dr. Frank Begemann
Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
Division 513 - Information and Coordination Centre for Biological Diversity
Deichmanns Aue 29
53179 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0)2 28 / 68 45 -32 37
Fax: +49 (0)2 28 / 68 45 -37 87
Email: frank.begemann@ble.de

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Members

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Chairperson of the Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Gerowitt
University of Rostock
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty
Department of Phytomedicine
Satower Str. 48
D-18059 Rostock

Subject areas: herbology, phytomedicine, arable farming and agro-biodiversity.

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Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board

Dr. Peter H. Feindt
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning
Cardiff University
School of City and Regional Planning
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
Wales
CF10 3WA

Subject areas: environmental policy, agricultural policy, democracy theory and research, political participation, political communication, sustainability policy

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Members of the Advisory Board

• Dr. Frank Begemann
  Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
  Division 513 - Information and Coordination Centre for Biological Diversity
  Deichmanns Aue 29
  D-53179 Bonn
  Subject areas: management of genetic resources, documentation and information management, legal and organisational framework for genetic resources, cooperation at national, European and international levels
• Prof. Dr. Leo Dempfle
  Sonnenstr. 41
  D-85402 Kranzberg
  Prof. Dr. Dr. Rudolf Dolzer
  University of Bonn
  Faculty of Law
  Adenauerallee 24-42
  D-53113 Bonn
• Dr. Jan Engels
  Bioversity International
  Headquarters
  Via dei Tre Denari 472/a
  I-00057 Maccarese (Fiumicino)
  Rome
  Subject areas: plant genetic resources, conservation and use, genebanks, plant breeding
• Dr. Lothar Frese
  Julius Kühn Institute,
  Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
  Institute for Breeding Research on Agricultural Crops
  Erwin-Baur-Str. 27
  D-06484 Quedlinburg
  Subject areas: plant genetic resources, ex-situ and in-situ collection and information management, cooperation at European and international levels
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Rolf Gregorius
  University of Göttingen
  Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
  Büsgenweg 2
  D-37077 Göttingen
  Subject areas: population genetics, ecological genetics, systems analysis and variations analysis
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alois Heißenhuber
  Munich University of Technology
  Chair in Farming Economics
  Alte Akademie 14
  D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Jacobsen
  University of Hanover
  Molecular Genetics Department
  Herrenhäuser Straße 2
  D-30419 Hanover
• Dr. Alwin Janßen
  Forest test centre in North-West Germany
  Department C – Forest Genetic Resources
  Prof.-Oelkers-Str. 6
  D-34346 Hann. Münden
• Dr. Ingrid Kissling-Näf
  Deputy Director of the Federal Office for Education and Technology
  Head of the KTI, Support Agency for Innovation
  Effingerstr. 27
  CH-3003 Bern
  Subject areas: environmental economics, resource policy, institutional economics, policy analysis, science management
• Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott
  University of Greifswald
  Botanical Institute
  Professorship in Environmental Ethics
  Grimmer Straße 88
  D-17487 Greifswald
  Subject areas: concepts and theories of sustainable development, arguments for the protection of biotic diversity, arguments for nature conservation, principles of distributive justice, ethical aspects of 'green' genetic engineering, risk theory
• Prof. Dr. Lucia Reisch
  Copenhagen Business School
  Department of Intercultural Communication and Management
  Pocelaenshaven 18, 1
  DK-2000 Frederiksberg
  Subject areas: sustainable consumption, consumer policy, consumer behaviour, risk perception
• Emeritus Prof. Dr. Werner Steffens
  German Fisheries Association
  Eitelsdorfer Str. 32
  D-12555 Berlin
• Dr. Steffen Weigend
  Friedrich Loeffler Institute,
  Federal Research Institute for Animal Health
  Institute of Farm Animal Genetics in Mariensee
  Höltystraße 10
  D-31535 Neustadt-Mariensee
  Subject areas: animal genetic resources of farm animals, molecular animal breeding, genetic diversity in poultry, management of small populations, cooperation at national, European and international levels