Following the invitation to Member States and Stakeholders to nominate experts from UNEP’s Executive Director in her letter dated 17 June 2022, the Secretariat has received more than 250 nominations to attend the 2 inaugural open-ended meetings of experts to launch the preparation of the seventh edition of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) scheduled for 19-22 September (virtual meeting, focusing on procedural matters) and 17-20 October 2022 (in-person/hybrid meeting, focusing on scoping of GEO-7). To ensure effective Member State leadership of these meetings, on 18 August the Secretariat issued a call for expressions of interest to nominated Member States experts to form a regionally and gender balanced bureau consisting of two co-chairs, two vice-chairs and one rapporteur for the GEO-7 open-ended meetings. In total, 14 nominated Member State experts submitted expressions of interest to become a member of the GEO-7 Bureau.