Erwin Beck (University of Bayreuth): Access and benefit sharing – the perspective of basic research)
Dieter Dörr (University of Mainz): The Nagoya Protocol and the rights of the indigenous people
Thomas Greiber (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn): Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in the EU
Sebastian Meurer (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ, Bonn): Access and benefit sharing in Latin America – challenges and opportunities
Michael Heinrich: 25 years after the ‘Rio Convention’ – Lessons learned in the context of sustainable development of natural resources
Sami Khalid (University of Khartoum): The African arena in the Nagoya benefit-sharing concept
David Lee (Harvard School of Medicine, USA): Bringing Chinese medicine to the market – the Harvard experience
Mita Banerjee (University of Mainz): Biopiracy and biopatenting in India: Culture, globalization and the ownership of knowledge.
Amina Ather (Jury for Sustainability and Community Outreach, UNESCO): Fragrance of the silk route – an undebated potential for mental wellbeing and vulnerability for biopiracy of indigenous medicinal values