CURRICULUM VITAE JAMES C. ARONSON Born 1953, St. Louis, Missouri. USA TEL. + 1 617 449 8399 (cell); +1 314 577 0871 (work) E mails:
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[email protected] Webpage: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/research- staff/article/720/aronson-james.aspx PRESENT POSITIONS Senior Scientist (since 2016), Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri USA. Co-director, ASSET Research– Africa’s Search for Sound Economic Trajectories (http://www.assetresearch.org.za/). ADDITIONAL POSITIONS 2002 – present: Editor-in-chief Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration book series, Island Press, and the Society for Ecological Restoration (www.islandpress.org/ser). 2009 – present: Representative-at-Large, Society for Ecological Restoration. 2005 – present: Coordinator, Restoring Natural Capital (RNC) Alliance (www.rncalliance.org). PREVIOUS POSITIONS and WORK EXPERIENCE 1992-2016. Researcher in the Restoration Ecology Group, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (UMR 5175), Montpellier, France. 2014-2016. Elected member, Comité scientifique français de la desertification (CSFD). 2011-2012. Member, Scientific Advisory Board, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. 2008-2010. Visiting professor, Joint MSc/PhD Program in Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Tropics. Universidad International Menendez Pelayo, Madrid & Universidad Indo-Andina, Quito, Ecuador (http://www.uimp.es/posgrado/posgrado.html#tropicales). 1985-1986. Interim Director, Desert Run-off Farms Unit, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. 1980-1987. Plant Genetic Resources Officer, Boyko Institute for Agriculture & Applied Biology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. 1977-1978. Field work coordinator, Flora of Peru project.