Shaping Sustainable Futures

Chair of the Scientific Committee.

Belgian biotechnologist and mathematician. Pioneer of bamboo tissue culture and known for the Superformula (Gielis transformations), which describes natural forms such as bamboo leaves and culms. Visiting professor at the University of Antwerp and World Bamboo Ambassador.

Co-chair of the Scientific Committee.

Researcher at Panjab University specialising in the nutrition, antioxidants and bioactive compounds of bamboo shoots. World Bamboo Ambassador from Manipur, Northeast India.

Works through EcoDecision on the restoration of degraded Amazon sites with native bamboo species, developing propagation methods for post-mining restoration and community use. More than forty years of experience in the Andes and the Amazon. Co-author of American Bamboos.

Indian architect and founder of Manasaram Architects and the Centre for Green Building Materials & Technology (CGBMT) in Bengaluru. Pioneer of bamboo construction in India; World Bamboo Ambassador, advisor to the Karnataka State Bamboo Mission and member of INBAR’s construction task force.

Associate professor at Nanjing Forestry University (Bamboo Research Institute). Research on biological scaling laws, phenology and forest ecology.

Dutch geographer and former Director-General of INBAR (2014–2019). Now World Bamboo Ambassador and advisor to BambooLogic, which plants bamboo in Europe. A strong voice on policy, climate mitigation and a European bamboo value chain.

Professor of Botany at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and World Bamboo Ambassador. A leading researcher on bamboo shoots as food and author of the book Bamboo Shoot: Superfood for Nutrition, Health and Medicine.

Professor of Applied Sciences in Bio-based Building at the Centre of Expertise MNEXT (Avans and HZ). PhD on vacuum structures; works on the practical use of bio-based materials, health effects and the wider construction system, bridging research, education and building practice.

Associate Professor at Nanjing Forestry University (Bamboo Research Institute), working on the morphology and ecology of bamboo and trees.

Chinese bamboo specialist and director of the Sino-Canadian Bamboo Research Institute (Zhejiang A&F University). Former programme director at INBAR; expert in carbon sequestration, forest management and value chains. World Bamboo Ambassador.

Senior Professor (retired) at the Bose Institute, Kolkata. Work on species-specific markers, in vitro regeneration, cellulose and lignin profiling, and flowering genetics. Co-editor of Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Bamboos; editorial board member of Advances in Bamboo Science.

French civil engineer and researcher at FCBA, expert in timber and bamboo construction, acoustics and bio-based materials. Works on treatment, construction and high-rise applications; World Bamboo Ambassador.

Agronomist and taxonomist, and a leading authority on Neotropical woody bamboos, especially Guadua. She has described around 50 new species and helped establish several new genera; co-author of American Bamboos with Clark and others. World Bamboo Pioneer Award (2018).

Colombian-Swiss researcher (ETH Zurich / FHNW) in life-cycle assessment of construction materials, especially bamboo. Chair of the INBAR Bamboo Construction Task Force. Works on LCA data, carbon accounting and bamboo for social housing and post-disaster reconstruction.

Structural engineer and founder of Summum Engineering. Expert in form-finding, lightweight shells, parametric design and flexible formwork. Works on bio-based and circular applications (timber, bamboo, earth) and digital engineering.

Professor of construction technology and materials at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Founding partner of Amphibia BASE Ltd, a UK-based technology company that leads research and development of industrialised products using biogenic materials.

British bamboo taxonomist with a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and former staff member at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Author of identification guides including Bamboos of Bhutan and co-author of the bamboo account in the Flora of China. Editor of the American Bamboo Society Species List; more than four decades of work on Himalayan and cultivated bamboos.

Researcher at Wageningen University & Research (Horticulture & Product Physiology). Develops functional-structural plant models, including for tomato in vertical farming and digital twins. Background in informatics and eco-informatics; modelling of plant form and growth.

Architectural engineer and researcher (TU Delft / AMS Institute), specialist in mass timber, engineered bamboo and circular, bio-based construction. Author of Booming Bamboo and Tomorrow’s Timber. Frequent speaker on low-carbon building and climate.

American botanist and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University. World authority on the taxonomy and phylogeny of (tropical woody) bamboos, having described about 180 new species. Led the Bamboo Phylogeny Group and co-author of American Bamboos.

Professor at Kyoto University (Global Environmental Studies), specialist in bamboo ecology, landscape architecture and urban greening. Chief Director of the Japan Bamboo Society. Studies the flowering, growth and management of Japanese bamboos.

Belgian architect and urban planner who builds with bamboo and rammed earth, including community projects in Brazil and Ecuador. Co-founder of CRU! Architects.

Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Bologna. Works on mechanical characterisation, hygromechanical behaviour, connections and standardisation of bamboo. Deputy Chair of the RILEM committee on the mechanical characterisation of bamboo.

Structural designer, assistant professor at TU Eindhoven and founder of SIDstudio and MDLX. Works on lightweight structures, timber construction and modular bio-based systems, combining architectural integration with material efficiency. Former Constructor of the Year.

UBC Forestry PhD researcher studying how bamboo industry projects affect livelihoods, environment and wellbeing in the Global South. A former INBAR communications officer and longtime bamboo advocate, she also toured China and Central Asia on a bamboo bicycle.

Full Professor associated with Leibniz Universität Hannover, focusing on efficient bamboo structures and bio-based construction, and on how the European timber industry can integrate bamboo into domestic markets as a sustainable raw material.

Belgian plant physiologist (PhD, University of Antwerp) who later became research coordinator at the Antwerp Maritime Academy. Work on plant stress, antioxidants and bamboo as an energy crop and soil-remediation species. Co-organiser of WBC 2012.

Researcher at Wageningen University & Research, working on biorefinery and the use of natural fibres. Expertise spans agrotechnology, bioprocess engineering, building materials, composites, panels and paper, tropical crops and the circular economy.