Global Invasive Species Programme

Chairman of the Board: Dennis Rangi CABI Executive Director, International Development based in Nairobi, Kenya Dennis Rangi of CABI, was initially elected Chairperson of the Executive Board of GISP at an Executive Board meeting held on 13th October 2005, and unanimously re-elected for a second term in office at an Executive Board Meeting held on 1st November 2007.	Board members:

	Tanya Abrahamse Chief Executive Officer at SANBI in Pretoria, South Africa	Mark Lonsdale Chief of Entomology at CSIRO in Canberra, Australia	Bill Jackson Deputy Director General, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland

	Silvia Ziller Co-ordinator of TNC’s South America Regional Programme for Invasive Species, Curitiba, Brazil	Sean Murphy Regional Director, CABI Europe-UK, Egham, Surrey, UK	Sarah Simons Executive Director GISP, GISP Secretariat, CABI, Nairobi , Kenya
	Alternate members:

	Geoffrey Howard Global Invasive Species Co-ordinator for IUCN, Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya.	John Randall Executive Director of TNC’s Invasive Species Initiative, Davis, California	Lindsey Norgrove CABI's Global Director, Invasive Species, Delemont, Switzerland

What are Invasive species?