My name is Erkan Guler and I am working at Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, within the LDN team.
I hold an engineering degree in geomatics and a PhD in Geographical Information Systems on web-based data (soil) collection from the field with mobile devices. My area of expertise is more in GIS and Remote Sensing products focused on land cover and geographic/spatial monitoring analysis and (thematic)mapping. With regard to my professional background, I have nine years of government(Turkey), and six years of private sector experience in a national and international environment.
I have carried out various responsibilities as UNCCD NFP-TURKEY (Chairman of Annex IV, Representative of Turkey to the Steering Committee of G20, the Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats, and member of the working group on the LDN-TPP Decision Support System)
I am married and have 2 kids.

Director General of Centre de Suivi Ecologique in Senegal and previously Director of Future Africa at the Pretoria; Executive Director of START-International in Washington DC and Senior Scientist on Climate Change at the World Agroforestry Center. He work on drivers of land resources dynamics in various human-ecological contexts. He focused on climate impacts and land-based mitigation pathways, food security, land resource opportunities in semi-arid ecosystems.

Dr. Tidiane Ouattara received a master’s degree in physical geography from Université de Cocody-Abidjan (Côte-d’Ivoire). In 1996, Dr. Ouattara obtained a master’s degree and in 2001 a PhD, both in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) from Sherbrooke University (Canada). Dr. Ouattara is currently Space Science Expert and Coordinator for GMES & Africa Programme. He has gained tremendous experience in international relations and business development, research and development (R&D), strategic policy development and program management issues related to environment, natural resources, and sciences and technology. Indeed Dr. Ouattara began his career in Canada as lecturer at Sherbrooke University from 1996 to 2001. He taught not only scientific courses, but also African geopolitics and sociocultural issues. After a brief stay with the private sector in Montreal, in 2002 Dr. Ouattara started working with the federal government of Canada. He successively occupied various positions

Abdoulaye Mohamadou est le Secrétaire Exécutif (SE) du Comité permanent inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS). Créé en 1973 le CILSS regroupe les pays tels que le Bénin, le Burkina Faso, le Cap Vert, la Côte d’Ivoire, la Gambie, la Guinée, la Guinée-Bissau, le Mali, la Mauritanie, le Niger, le Sénégal, le Tchad et le Togo. Le Centre régional Agrhymet de Niamey est l’une de ses institutions spécialisées. Il a été élu au poste de SE à l’issue de la 19ème conférence des chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement du CILSS tenue le 20 juillet 2020.
Abdoulaye Mohamadou est enseignant-chercheur à la Faculté d'Agronomie de l’université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey. C’est un socio-anthropologue qui officie également au sein du Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les dynamiques sociales et le développement local (LASDEL) de Niamey.

Agricultural engineer and Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems specialist, he started his professional career in 1995 at the National Remote Sensing Centre of Tunisia before joining the Ministry of the Environment. He firstly held the position of Sustainable Natural Resources Management expert in charge of Monitoring-Evaluation with the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) in 2003 and then as the Environment Program Coordinator since 2008. In November 2020, he was appointed Executive Secretary by the OSS Executive Board. During the 27 years of his experience, he worked on sustainable natural resources management, the development of observation and environmental monitoring tools as well as the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation programs.