GRAS Advisory Board
GRAS has been set up and will be continuously further developed through a multi-stakeholder process, involving representatives of private companies, the research sector, NGOs, development organizations, sustainability certification schemes and administrations.
Together with our project partners, the GRAS Advisory Board forms a sound decision basis for the further strategic development of GRAS through external expert advice and scientific oversight in the key areas of competence of GRAS.
The GRAS Advisory Board was set up by the end of 2017 and meets on a quarterly basis to discuss and decide upon strategic steps of GRAS and exchange on latest important developments within the areas of remote sensing, zero-deforestation supply chains, carbon stocks, social indices, renewable resources, agricultural markets and forestry. GRAS is proud to be able to count on the following Advisory Board members:
Dr Daniel Doktor
- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
- Head of the Working Group Remote Sensing of Ecosystems
Daniel Doktor studied Geography in Münster (Diplom) and afterwards worked at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam. After earning a PhD at Imperial College London – focussing on remote sensing and plant phenology – he started as a PostDoc in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. He now leads the working group Remote Sensing of Ecosystems focussing on the impacts of climate and global change on vegetation deriving e.g. vegetation dynamics and land-use / land-cover or land-use intensities from time series of optical-reflective satellite data. He has been leading several third party funded projects (BMWI, BfN, EU) and was also involved in high-level UFZ strategic processes.
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Marion Hammerl
- Co-founder of Fundación Global Nature España and key figure in Global Nature Fund.
- Former President and current board member of Fundación Global Nature.
Marion Hammerl is an Economist and co-founder of various environmental organizations – one of them the Fundación Global Nature España, a national wide active NGO. Until 2015 she was President of Fundación Global Nature (honorary position) and is still member of the board of directors. She was very much engaged in the creation of the Global Nature Fund (GNF) and the international Living Lakes Network. Since summer 2002 she is the President of GNF (honorary position). From 1998 – 2022, Marion was Managing Director of Lake Constance Foundation and coordinator of numerous EU-supported projects. Within other topics, Marion is specialized in sustainable tourism development, environmental management systems (EMAS and ISO), management of water resources and business and biodiversity. She supported very much the creation of the Food for Biodiversity initiative and is an expert on food standards and biodiversity related aspects.
Marion received various awards for her engagement for the protection of nature.
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Jens Hönerhoff
- DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
- Vice President Sustainability
Jens Hönerhoff is energy and process engineer and works since 2007 as senior environmental specialist for the DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, the private sector development financing branch of the KfW group. As vice president for sustainability he is inter alia responsible for the development of the WWF-DEG “Water Risk Filter”, the mapping tool for water risks.
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Dr Rafaël Schneider
- Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
- Deputy Director Policy & External Relations
- Coordination Food Security Standard (FSS)
Rafaël Schneider (Dr. rer. nat.) is geographer and works since 2007 for the Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., a private organisation acting in the area of development cooperation and humanitarian aid. As deputy director of the Policy Division and coordinator of the Food Security Standard Project, he addresses development policies related to global food security, rural development, agriculture, nutrition and the Human Right to Food. Before, he has been coordinator at the German Development Service (DED) in N’Djaména (Chad) and senior advisor in a DED-GTZ-Program on rural development in Natitingou (Benin).
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