A small core team of experts will oversee, run and moderate the consultation:
- chair: Donald Hobern, Catalogue of Life | International Barcode of Life
- Alex Asase, University of Ghana | GBIF Ghana
- Quentin Groom, Meise Botanic Garden
- Maofang Luo, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Deborah Paul, iDigBio
- Tim Robertson, GBIF
- Patrick Semal, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
- Barbara Thiers, New York Botanical Garden
- Matt Woodburn, Natural History Museum, London
- Eliza Zschuschen, The National Herbarium of Suriname