# The workshop coordinators

**URL:** https://discourse.gbif.org/t/the-workshop-coordinators/1718
**Category:** Collections Catalogue
**Created:** [February 8, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/the-workshop-coordinators/1718 "2020-02-08T08:59:22Z")
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#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/the-workshop-coordinators/1718/1 "2020-02-08T08:59:22Z")

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A small core team of experts will oversee, run and moderate the consultation:

- _chair_: [Donald Hobern](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6492-4016), Catalogue of Life | International Barcode of Life
- [Alex Asase](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-3445), University of Ghana | GBIF Ghana
- [Quentin Groom](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376), Meise Botanic Garden
- **Maofang Luo** , Chinese Academy of Sciences
- [Deborah Paul](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-7520), iDigBio
- [Tim Robertson](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6215-3617), GBIF
- [Patrick Semal](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4048-7728), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
- [Barbara Thiers](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8613-7133), New York Botanical Garden
- [Matt Woodburn](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6496-1423), Natural History Museum, London
- **Eliza Zschuschen** , The National Herbarium of Suriname