#01: African Studies Chair; Dr. Inocent Moyo, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa, Mobile: +27 72 106 2632,
E-mail: minnoxa.m@gmail.com 

#04:Biogeography and Biodiversity; Chair, Prof. Dr. Udo Schickhoff, Biogeography and Landscape Ecology Working Group.  University of Hamburg, Germany, udo.schickhoff@t-online.de , Vice Chair, Dr Suraj Mal, Department of  Geography, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi,  India, Phone: +91 996 816 6893, 
E-mail: surajdse@gmail.com

#07:Cold and High Altitude Regions; Chair: Prof. Dr. Shichang Kang,  Laboratory of Cryosphere Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China .

E-Mail:  shichang.kang@lzb.ac.cn

#15:Geography of Governance; Co-Chair Prof. Anna Trono, University of Salento, Italy. 00390832295603 00390832295629.

E-Mail: anna.trono@unisalento.it

Co-Chair Dr. Jeffrey McNeill, Massey University, New Zealand.

E-Mail: jeff.mcneill1958@gmail.com  

#27:Land Degradation and Desertification; Chair, Dr. Matija Zorn, Department of Physical Geography, Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Phone: 00386 1 4706 348,
E-Mail: matija.zorn@zrc-sazu.si

#31:Local and Regional Development; Chair, Ines Grigorescu, Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania,
E-mail: inesgrigorescu@yahoo.com  

#33:Mediterranean Basin; Chair, Professor Anastasia Stratigeia, National Technical University of Athens, Greece,
E-Mail: stratige@central.ntua.gr  ,Prof. Dr. M. Alouat, ENSB École Normale Supérieure De Bouzaréah – DZ.: alouat.mohamed@ensb.dz

#34: Modelling Geographical Systems; Chair, Professor Dr. Min Chen, Vice Director, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University, China,
E-mail: chenmin0902@163.com

#42:Urban Commission: Re-Thinking cities and the urban: from the global to the local; Chair, Professor Dr. Maria Jose Piñeira- Mantiñán, Spain,
E-Mail:  mariajose.pineira@usc.es