Meet the Team
OSG Co-chair:
Dr. Amy Hinsley
OSG Co-chair:
Dr. Martha Charitonidou
Red List Authority Coordinator:
Dr. Pankaj Kumar
Orchid Officer CSS Wilhelma:
Dr. Jacopo Calevo
Co-Chair
Amy is a research fellow at the University of Oxford, working on the trade of orchids and other wildlife. She became Co-Chair of the Orchid Specialist Group in 2021, and was Co-Chair of the Group's Global Trade programme from 2016-2021
Co-Chair
Martha is a research fellow at the University of Ioannina (Greece) focusing, among others, on orchid population dynamics and spatial ecology. She became co-chair of the IUCN SSC Orchid Specialist Group in 2026, and was co-chair of the Group's Global Trade sub-group from 2021 to 2025.
Red List Authority Coordinator
Pankaj is a botanist, plant ecologist, and conservation biologist. He serves as the Red List Coordinator of the IUCN SSC Orchid Specialist Group and as a Red List Authority for Orchids of Asia, where he coordinates and reviews extinction-risk assessments. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Miami Dade College.
Orchid Officer at IUCN SSC CSS Wilhelma
Jacopo is Orchid Officer at the Center for Species Survival Wilhelma (Stuttgart, Germany) since 2026. Honorary researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Adjunct researcher at Curtin University, he is specialised in Orchid ecology, fungal interactions and propagation of orchids.
Focal Points
Conservation Planning
Dr. Henrik Pedersen
Climate Change
Dr. Jacopo Calevo
Sustainable Use
Reshu Bashyal
Early Career
Botond Gaál