INI Leadership and Committees

The INI's structure includes a Core Office, a Steering Committee, a Scientific Advisory Committee and six Regional Centers. 

The Core Office is currently located at UNEP in South Korea, the institutional home of the current INI chair Kilaparti Ramakrishna.

Steering Committee

Kilaparti Ramakrishna
INI Chairman
UNEP, Soul, South Korea
 
Cheryl Palm
Past INI Chairwoman
Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
 

Jim Galloway
Past INI chairman
University of Virginia, Charlotesville, USA

Mark Sutton
European Nitrogen Center

Eric Davidson
North American Nitrogen Center
Falmouth, USA

Mateete Bekunda
African Nitrogen Center,
Nairobi, Kenya

Manbir Sachdev
South Asian Nitrogen Center
New Delhi, India

Dr. Xiaoyuan Yan
East Asian Nitrogen Center
State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture

Mercedes Bustamante
Latin American Nitrogen Center
Brasilia, Brazil

Zucong Cai
East Asian Nitrogen Center
Nanjing, China

 

Professor Deli Chen, PhD
The University of Melbourne
SCOPE representative

Luiz Martinelli
IGBP representative

Science Advisory Committee

Yash Abrol, Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Gilles Billen, UMR Sisyphe
Ellis Cowling, North Carolina State University
Eric Davidson, The Woods Hole Reseach Center
Jan Willem Erisman, Energy Reseach Center (ECN)
Bob Howarth, Cornell University
Luc Maene, International Fertilizer Industry
Bill Moomaw, Tufts University
Kiliparti Ramakrishna, UNEP/Woods Hole Reseach Center
Mary Scholes, University of the Witwafersrand; SCOPE
Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director IGBP
Cliff Snyder, International Plant Nutrition Institute
Janet Sprent, University of Dundee
Henning Steinfeld, Food and Agriculture Organisation
Zhaoliang Zhu, Institute of Soil Science, China
African Center Representative, To be nominated
Latin American Representative, To be nominated