Danielle Celentano is a Forest Engineer from Brazil, with a Master's in Tropical Forest Management and Conservation in Costa Rica and a Ph.D. in Biodiversity and Biotechnology. She is currently Forest Restoration Senior Manager at Conservation International (CI-Brazil), Executive Secretary of the Alliance for Restoration in the Amazon (Alliance), and Associate Professor in the Agroecology Graduate Program at the State University of Maranhão (UEMA). Danielle has lived and worked in the Amazon region for 20 years, she is the mother of Ananda and Noam, and lives on a small farm where cultivates a beautiful and biodiverse home garden.

Renato Crouzeilles is Director and CEO of the International Institute for Sustainability Australia (IIS AU), Associate and Senior Manager at the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS Rio), assistant professor in the postgraduate course in Environmental Sciences at the Veiga de Almeida University, Collaborator Lecturer in the Post-Graduate Program in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Collaborator Lecturer in the Professional Master’s Program in Sustainability Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

He has a PhD in Ecology at UFRJ, conducted partially at the University of Queensland and at the Australian National University. He has experience in landscape restoration and ecology, systematic spatial planning and capacity building. His aim is to inform, design and support environmental decision making by providing capacity exchange programs in systematic spatial planning and developing spatial optimisation planning tools for forest and landscape restoration.

David Douterlungne is a Belgian plant ecologist at IPICyT, a federal research center in Central Mexico. His research focuses on restoration ecology in rainforest, temperate oak forests and deserts as well as traditional ecological knowledge in biodiversity hotspots. He has a PhD in tropical ecology at ECOSUR (South Mexico), is a former IPBES member and besides his research teaches statistical programing in R.  

Juan M. Dupuy is a plant community ecologist with research experience in tropical forest structure, diversity, composition and dynamics, especially in forest regeneration in human-modified landscapes. He has a B.S. degree in Biology at Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of Connecticut, USA, and has been a Researcher at the Scientific Research Center of Yucatan (CICY) for 19 years.