Dr. Who-Seung Lee is Director of the Natural Environment Division and a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), Republic of Korea, and serves as BirdLife International Coordinator for the Republic of Korea. His research broadly covers the ecology and conservation of migratory waterbirds wintering in Korea, especially related to habitat, human infrastructure, and avian disease. Dr. Lee began his career with Korea’s national wintering waterbird census and has since used population monitoring, GPS telemetry, and spatial analysis to study waterbirds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. In 2026, he authored a UN ESCAP/NEASPEC report on the impacts of energy infrastructure on migratory birds and habitat integrity in North-East Asia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, and his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Kyung Hee University, Korea.

Dr. Claire Teitelbaum is an Assistant Unit Leader at the Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research broadly covers movement, behavior, and population dynamics of wildlife, especially related to habitat, climate, and infectious diseases. Dr. Teitelbaum uses and adapts quantitative methods to analyze and combine data sets from animal telemetry, biodiversity databases, biological surveys, and remote sensing. For several years, her research focused on interactions between avian influenza infection and movement behavior in wild waterfowl, both in North America and globally. She received her Ph.D. from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia and her B.A. from Pomona College, USA.

Prof. Bart Nolet is group leader at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and professor by special appointment at the University of Amsterdam. He is studying bird movement during foraging and migration, scaling up from individuals to populations. His main interest is in how migrating geese and swans are coping with environmental change in the Arctic and elsewhere along their route.