Ko Albert van Jaarsveld te Kaitohutohu mō ngā Kaupapa Motuhake i tēnei wā, ki te Tumuaki Tuarua o te Whare Wānanga o Stellenbosch, Āwherika ki te Tonga. I mua, ko ia te Kaiwhakahaere Matua o te International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). I mua i tana urunga atu ki te IIASA, ko ia te Tumuaki Tuarua me te Tumuaki o te Whare Wānanga o KwaZulu-Natal i Āwherika ki te Tonga, me te Perehitini me te Tumu Whakahaere Matua o te South African National Research Foundation (NRF).
I whiwhi a Van Jaarsveld i tana Tohu Tohu Kairangi i roto i te Zoology (Te Whare Wananga o Pretoria), i whai i nga mahi rangahau me te rangahau i roto i te koiora tiaki me te haumarutanga o te ao i Ahitereiria me te UK, me te whakaoti i nga whakangungu whakahaere whakahaere i te Whare Wananga o Harvard. Ko ana mahi rangahau i arotahi ki te kanorau koiora, te whakamahere tiaki, te kanorau me te huringa o te rangi, me nga ratonga rauwiringa kaiao. I whakaingoatia ia hei ahorangi katoa i nga Whare Wananga e rua o Pretoria me Stellenbosch, a, neke atu i te 100 nga pepa rangahau tuatahi i whakaputa, tae atu ki nga mahi tino whakahuahia i roto i te Putaiao me te Nature.
I mahi a Van Jaarsveld hei heamana-tahi mō te kaupapa whai muri a te MEA: Ngā aromatawai ā-ao whānui, mema o te komiti whakaingoatanga o te Kaunihera Pūtaiao o te Ao (ICSU), te pokapū arotahi a te IPBES, Heamana o te rōpū minita pūtaiao o te G8 o ngā āpiha matua mō ngā hanganga rangahau ā-ao, he heamana o te IGFA, Heamana-tahi o te Belmont Forum, mema o te rōpū arotake ICSU (2013), te rōpū arotake ā-waho o te IPBES (2018), te rōpū arotake ā-waho o Future Earth (2020) me te Komihana ISC mō ngā Mihinare mō te Oranga Tonutanga (2021-ināianei).
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