The GEO Programme Board

The GEO Programme Board was established as part of the development of the GEO Strategic Plan 2016 - 2025 and approved at the Mexico City Ministerial Summit in November, 2015.
The Programme Board oversees the establishment of the multi-year GEO Work Programmes and works to align proposed activities with GEO priorities and committed resources. The Programme Board reports to the GEO Executive Committee and Plenary. GEO Members and Participating Organizations nominate representatives to the Programme Board.

Twoe Participating Organizations from the Programme Board have Observer seats on the Executive Committee to represent views of Participating Organizations. Programme Board Observers to the Executive Committee are: the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Members of the Board dialogue with contributors to the GEO Work Programmes, connecting ideas and contributions to GEO’s Strategic Objectives to advocate, engage and deliver Earth observation data and information, as well as to support the use of the newly established four Implementation Mechanisms for GEO activities:

• Foundational tasks
• Community activities
• GEO Initiatives
• GEO Flagships

Members of the Board also dialogue with the wider GEO community and external stakeholders to broaden support for the realization the GEO Work Programme. Members of the GEO community are welcome to contact members of the Programme Board or the co-chairs.

The Terms of Reference of the Programme Board can be found on pages 7 to 9 of the Rules of Procedure

The GEO Secretariat's contact for Programme Board matters is Craig Larlee.

Members

Member	Contact Name	Role	Email Address
Australia	Jonathon Ross	Principal
Australia	Andy Steven	Alternate
Cambodia	Kimhor Meng	Principal
Canada	Marie-Josée Bourassa	Principal
Canada	Andrew Davidson	Alternate
China	Xingfa Gu	Principal
China	Guifei Jing	Alternate
China	Xiang Zhou	Alternate
European Commission	Massimo Craglia	Principal
European Commission	Stefano Nativi	Alternate
Finland	Petteri Vihervaara	Principal
Finland	Saku Anttila	Alternate
France	Thierry Ranchin	Principal
Germany	Carsten Dettmann	Principal
Germany	Thorsten Büßelberg	Alternate
Germany	Martin Lenk	Alternate
Ghana	Amos Kabo-Bah	Principal
Ghana	Dickson Adomako	Alternate
Ghana	Anita Antwiwaa	Alternate
Greece	Evangelos Gerasopoulos	Principal
Italy	Paolo Mazzetti	Principal
Italy	Lucia Perugini	Alternate
Italy	Stefano Salvi	Alternate
Japan	Osamu Ochiai	Principal
Japan	Hiroyuki Muraoka	Alternate
Kenya	John Kimani	Principal
Kenya	Charles Mwangi	Alternate
Kenya	Andrew Nyawade	Alternate
Norway	Bente Lilja Bye	Principal
Pakistan	Muhammad Irfan Tariq	Principal
Pakistan	Muhammad Arif Rashid Goheer	Alternate
Pakistan	Imran Khan	Alternate
South Africa	Andiswa Mlisa	Co-Chair
South Africa	Zipho Tyoda	Alternate
United Kingdom	Nathalie Pettorelli	Principal
United Kingdom	Heiko Balzter	Alternate
United Kingdom	Stuart Marsh	Alternate
United States	Yana Gevorgyan	Co-Chair
United States	Ivan Deloatch	Alternate
United States	Scott Rayder	Alternate

Participating Organizations

Participating Organizations	Contact Name	Role	Email Address
CEOS*	Andreia Siqueira	Principal
CEOS*	Amy Parker	Alternate
CEOS*	Kerry Sawyer	Alternate
COSPAR	David Halpern	Principal
COSPAR	Jean-Claude Worms	Alternate
ESA	Ivan Petiteville	Co-Chair
ESIP	Kathleen Fontaine	Principal
ESIP	Karl Benedict	Alternate
ESIP	Erin Robinson	Alternate
GODAN	Suchith Anand	Principal
GODAN	Foteini Zampati	Alternate
GRSS	Anthony Milne	Principal
GRSS	Paolo Gamba	Alternate
IAG	Richard Gross	Principal
IAG	Allison Craddock	Alternate
IEEE*	Siri-Jodha Khalsa	Principal
IEEE*	René Garello	Alternate
IUGG	Michael Sideris	Principal
MRI*	Carolina Adler	Principal
OGC	Mark Reichardt	Principal
OGC	Bart De Lathouwer	Alternate
OGC	Marie-Françoise Voidrot	Alternate
POGO	Sophie Seeyave	Principal
POGO	Francisco Chavez	Alternate
SWF	Krystal Wilson	Principal
UN Environment	Pascal Peduzzi	Principal
UN Environment	Alexandre Caldas	Alternate
UN Environment	Hartwig Kremer	Alternate

* Observer seat on the Executive Committee

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15th Programme Board Meeting
4-5 September 2019, Ispra, Italy

Documents

• PB-15.01 rev2: Draft Agenda, second revision
• PB-15.03 Status of Community Activities
• PB-15.04: Foundational Task Descriptions and Terms of Reference for Working Groups and Task Team
• PB-15.05: Draft Naming Guidelines for GEO Work Programme Activities
• PB-15.06: 2020-2022 GEO Work Programme Summary Document (version 2)
• PB-15.07 Programme Board Nomination Process
• PB-15.08: Draft Concept Note for the 2020 GEO Data Providers Workshop and Data Technology Workshop
• PB-15.09 rev1: Proposed Programme Board Meeting Schedule for 2020, first revision
• PB-15.10: Status of Actions from Previous Programme Board Meetings

Presentations

• 1.4 Outcomes of the 48th Meeting of the GEO Executive Committee
• 2.1 Report from the Ecosystems review team
• 2.5 2020-2022 GEO Work Programme Summary Document
• 4.3 Review of Subgroup Structure

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14th Programme Board Meeting
12-13 June 2019, Geneva, Switzerland

Outcomes & Actions

• PB 14 Outcomes & Actions

Documents

• PB-14.01 rev2 Draft Agenda (changes marked in red)
• PB-14.02 Agenda of the 2019 GEO Symposium
• PB-14.03 2020-2022 GEO Work Programme Summary Document, version 1
• PB-14.04 Draft Guidance for Review of Regional GEO Implementation Plans
• PB-14.05 Report of the Paris Agreement Subgroup
• PB-14.06 Report of the Sendai Framework Subgroup
• PB-14.07 Lessons Learned from the GEOCAB Portal
• PB-14.08 Summary of Outcomes of the Data Technology Workshop
• PB-14.09 Draft Foundational Task Descriptions
• PB-14.10 Report of the Recognition Subgroup
• PB-14.11 Draft Agendas of the GEO-XVI Plenary and 2019 Ministerial Summit
• PB-14.12 Analysis of Performance Information in the 2020-2022 Implementation Plans
• PB-14.13 Proposed Changes to the GEO Rules of Procedure
• PB-14.14 Status of Actions from Previous Programme Board Meetings
• PB-14.15 Results Oriented GEOSS (Draft ExCom document)
• PB-14.16 Letter from UN Habitat

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