Listed below are the people involved in running FISH-BOL, both the adminstrative heads and the members of the various working groups. Please click on the members names to retrieve their contact information
Governance of FISH-BOL
The global administration of the Fish Barcode of Life Initiative is led by;
- Co-Chair: Paul Hebert
- Co-Chair: Bob Ward
- Campaign Coordinator: Robert Hanner
Regional Working Groups
FISH-BOL has been broken into 10 regional working groups, the contacts for each group are listed below;
AfricaThe administration of the African Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Ernst Swartz
- Vice Chair: Monica Mwale
The members are:
- Seth Koranteng Agyakwah
- Felix Attipoe
- Roger Bills
- Alex Chilala
- Allan Connell
- Luis da Costa
- Jean-Dominique Durand
- Elijah Kem Githui
- Ofer Gon
- Clinton Hay
- Elaine Heemstra
- Phil Heemstra
- Phillipe Lalèyè
- Caswell Mavimbela
- Ruby Moothien Pillay
- Monica Mwale
- Chacha Mwita
- Dalmas Oyugi
- Poogendri Reddy
- Anthony Ribbink
- Nick Rivers-Moore
- Lucy Scott
- Paul Skelton
- Jos Snoeks
- Melanie L. J. Stiassny
- Ernst Swartz
- Denis Tweddle
- Erik Verheyen
Top Australia
The administration of the Australian Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Bob Ward
- Vice Chair: Martin Gomon
The members are:
- Di Bray
- Damien Broderick
- Martin Gomon
- Glenn Graham
- Bronwyn Holmes
- Barry Hutchins
- Jeff Johnson
- Helen Larson
- Peter Last
- Mark McGrouther
- Jane Oakey
- Ben Ong
- Jenny Ovenden
- Graham Pegg
- Billy Sinclair
- Bob Ward
- Jessica Worthington Wilmer
Top Central America
The administration of the Central American Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Eldredge 'Biff' Bermingham
- Vice Chair: Martha Valdez-Moreno
The members are:
- Salvador Balderas
- Eldredge Bermingham
- Juan Jacobo Schmitter-Soto
- Jake Lowenstein
- Rocío Rodiles-Hernández
- Martha Valdez-Moreno
- Eugenia Vega Cendejas
- Benjamin Victor
- Lee Weigt
- Lourdes Vásquez Yeomans
Top Europe
The administration of the European Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Gary Carvalho
- Vice Chair: Martin Taylor
The members are:
- Judite Alves
- Marco Arculeo
- Jose Bautista
- Dietmar Blohm
- Nina Bogutskaya
- Ingvar Byrkjedal
- Henrique Cabral
- Patrick Campbell
- Alessia Cariani
- Gary Carvalho
- Esmeralda Costa
- Filipe Costa
- Helena Costa
- Tom Cross
- Geir Dahle
- Mark Dimech
- Antonina dos Santos
- Einar Eg Nielsen
- Clive Fox
- Bruria Funkenstein
- Stephen Garrett
- Elisabetta Giuffra
- Panagiotis Kasapidis
- Marc Kochzius
- Fang Fang Kullander
- Sabrina Lo Brutto
- Brett Lyons
- Antonios Magoulas
- Maria Manuela Coelho
- Rogelia Martins
- Ross McEwing
- Paola Modesto
- Michael Noren
- Rob Ogden
- Claudio Pellegrino
- Serge Planes
- Peter Rask Møller
- Hartmut Rehbein
- Massimiliano Spiazzi
- Dirk Steinke
- Martin Taylor
- Fausto Tinti
- Alexander Triantafyllidis
- Ekaterina Vasilieva
- Roman Wenne
Top India
The administration of the Indian Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Wazir Lakra
The members are:
- Achamveettil Gopalakrishnan
- Pallipuram Jayasankar
- G D Khadkar
- Wazir Lakra
- Rajendran Rajaram
- Mahender Verma
Top Middle East
The administration of the Middle East Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Benny Ron
The members are:
- Mohammad Al-Zibdah
- Lior David
- Tawfiq Froukh
- Daniel Golani
- Sergei Gorshkov
- Gideon Hulata
- Maroof Khalaf
- Benny Ron
- Andrey Shirak
Top North America
The administration of the North American Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Phil Hastings
- Vice Chair: Richard Mayden
The members are:
- LeeAnn Applewhite
- Jesse Ausubel
- Selester Bennett
- Andy Bentley
- Louis Bernatchez
- Vadim Birstein
- Jim Boutillier
- Mary Burridge
- Bruce Collette
- Andrew Cooper
- Angelique Corthals
- Alexis Crete-Lafreniere
- Phaedra Doukakis
- Scott Federhen
- Robert Hanner
- Phil Hastings
- Paul Hebert
- Nicolas Hubert
- Ione Hunt Von Herbing
- Henry Lear
- John Lundberg
- Richard Mayden
- Catherine Mecklenburg
- Thomas Orrell
- W. Steven Otwell
- Morgan Raley
- Sujeevan Ratnasingham
- Robert Schelly
- David Schindel
- Mahmood Shivji
- Dirk Steinke
- Mike Tringali
- Lou Van Guelpen
- Benjamin Victor
- Lee Weigt
- Marleen Wekell
- Richard Winterbottom
- James Wood
- Haile Yancy
- Tyler Zemlak
Top North East Asia
The administration of the North East Asian Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Yuri Kartavtsev
- Vice Chair: Youn-Ho Lee
The members are:
- Nina Bogutskaya
- Seinen Chow
- Shunping He
- Yuri Kartavtsev
- Youn-Ho Lee
- Keiichi Matsuura
- Masaki Miya
- Mutsumi Nishida
- Ekaterina Vasilieva
- Junxing Yang
Top Oceania/Antarctica
The administration of the Oceania/Antarctica Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Peter Smith
- Vice Chair: Serge Planes
The members are:
- Neil Bagley
- Gary Carvalho
- Filipe Costa
- Malcolm Francis
- Guillaume Lecointre
- Peter McMillan
- Margaret McVeagh
- Catherine Ozouf-Costaz
- Serge Planes
- Peter Rask Møller
- Clive Roberts
- Jennifer Rock
- Peter Smith
- Andrew Stewart
- Jeroen vanHoudt
- Filip Volckaert
- Bob Ward
Top South America
The administration of the South American Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Juan Diaz de Astarloa
- Vice Chair: Jose Alves Gomes
The members are:
- José Alves Gomes
- Denise Andrade de Oliveira
- Arturo Arcero
- Daniel Cardoso de Carvalho
- Frank A Chapman
- Wilson J.E.M. Costa
- Nelson Diaz
- Juan Diaz de Astarloa
- Ricardo Galleguillos
- Erling Holm
- Michael Mincarone
- Claudio Oliveira
- Ciro Oyarzun
- Manuel Sandoval
Top South East Asia
The administration of the South East Asian Regional Working Group is led by;
- Chair: Peter Ng
- Vice Chair: Kwang-Tsao Shao
- Vice Chair: Nicolas Bailly
The members are: