Contributors to Our Planet
since April 1994
(a selected list)
Sir David Attenborough
broadcaster, board member of Television Trust for the Environment and former Controller of BBC2
Alicia Bárcena
Executive Director of the Earth Council, Costa Rica
Carol Bellamy
Executive Director of UNICEF
Thorbjørn Berntsen
Minister of the Environment, Norway
Professor Bert Bolin
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Somsook Boonyabancha
Deputy Managing Director of the Urban Community Development Office in Thailand and Secretary-General of Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Habitat International Coalition, Asia
Emma Bonino
Commissioner for Fisheries with the European Commission
Lester Brown
President of the Worldwatch Institute
Manus van Brakel
Campaign Director of the Department for Sustainability, Milieu Defensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands)
Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti
Special Envoy of the President of Brazil and Chairman, third session, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
Professor Robert Chambers
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, UK
Baroness Chalker
Minister of Overseas Development, UK
Rachel Chatterjee
Commissioner of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, India
Professor P.J. Crutzen
Director of the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institut for Chemistry
Max Deml
Editor-in-Chief, Eco-Invest, Vienna, Austria
Dr Nitin Desai
Under Secretary-General for Policy Co-ordination and Sustainable Development, UN
Hama Arba Diallo
Executive Secretary, Convention to Combat Desertification
E. S. Diop
Professor at the University CAD of Dakar and advisor to the Senegalese Minister for the Environment on marine and coastal issues
Dr. Jacques Diouf
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Executive Director, UNEP
Dr Tewolde Berhan G. Egziabher
Head of the Ethiopian National Herbarium
Professor Paul Ehrlich
Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
Dr Mohammed El-Ashry
Chairman, Global Environment Facility
Kevin J. Fay
Partner in Alcalde & Fay, Executive Director of the International Climate Change Partnership
Claude Fussler
Vice President for Ventures and Environment, Health and Safety, Dow Europe
Dr Dharam Ghai
Director, UNRISD
Professor Herbert Girardet
of Middlesex University, consultant to HABITAT II
Dr Michael Glantz
Program Director, Environmental and Societal Impact Group, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Professor José Goldemberg
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Vice-President Al Gore
Vice-President of the United States
Rosario Green
Special Political Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
John Gummer
Secretary of State for the Environment, UK
Dr Nils Ole Hansen
Commissioner on Nature and the Environment, Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy
Mrs Khadija Haq
Executive Director, North South Roundtable
Dr Mahbub ul Haq
Special Adviser to the Administrator of UNDP
Hazel Henderson, President
Center for Sustainable Development and Alternative World Futures
Noeleen Heyzer
Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Sir Martin Holdgate
President, Global 500 Forum
Major-General B.H. Holomisa
Republic of South Africa's Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Sir John Houghton
Chairman of the IPCC's Working Group 1 and Chairman of Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Professor Charles W. Howe
Professor of Economics and Director, Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
María Elena Hurtado
Global Policy and Campaigns Director of Consumers International
Her Excellency Mrs. Annette des Iles
Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations and Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States
Dr. Nurul Islam
a former Minister of Planning in Bangladesh and Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Emeritus Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute
High Chief Vaasiliifiti Moelagi Jackson
President of the Faasao Savaii Society, Western Samoa's first cultural conservation organization, Vice-President of the Western Samoan Umbrella for Women's NGOs
Professor Lu Jinfa
Secretary-General, Centre for Land Degradation and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr Richard Jolly
Acting Executive Director, UNICEF
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
Chargé de Mission, UN Secretary General
Dr Üner Kirdar
Special Representative of the Secretary-General of HABITAT II and Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Ambassador Bo Kjellén
Chief Negotiator, Ministry of Environment, Sweden
Martin Khor Kok Peng
Director, Third World Network, Penang
Luiz Felipe Lampreia
Minister of External Relations, Brazil
Jaime Lerner
Governor of Paraná, Brazil, and Special Advisor to the United Nations on Human Settlements
Senator Harcourt Lewis
Minister of the Environment, Housing and Lands, Barbados
Gabino López
International Consultant with the Asociación de Consejeros para una Agricultura Sostenible, Ecológica y Humana (COSECHA), Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Jane Lubchenco
Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Past President of the Ecological Society of America
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa
Federico Mayor
Director-General of UNESCO
Gertrude Mongella
Secretary-General, Fourth World Conference on Women
Olav Myrholt
Project Manager in the Environment Department of Olympia Utvikling, and a member of the IOC Sport and Environment Commission
Kamal Nath
Minister of Environment and Forests, India
Dr Wally N'Dow
Secretary-General of the HABITAT II Conference
Professor Maciej Nowicki
former Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry, in Poland, President of the EcoFund Foundation
K.P. Nyati
Environment Management Division of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
Professor G.O.P. Obasi
Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization
Sadako Ogata
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Molly Harriss Olson
Executive Director of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, US
Metropolitan John of Pergamon
a senior bishop of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and Co-Chairman of the Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue, Professor of Theology at the University of Thessaloniki and Visiting Professor of Theology at King's College, London, UK
Professor Bishnodat Persaud
Director, Centre for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies
Lewis Preston
Former President, World Bank
Sir Shridath Ramphal
Chairman, Commission on Global Governance
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Prime Minister of Denmark
Dr Peter Raven
Director, Missouri Botanical Gardens
Dr Ye Ruqiu
Deputy Administrator of China's National Environmental Protection Agency
Dr Nafis Sadik
Executive Director, UNFPA
Dr Fred Sai
President, International Planned Parenthood Federation
David Satterthwaite
Programme Director for Human Settlements at the International Institute for Environment and Development
Rolf Selrod
CICERO, Norway
Ismail Serageldin
Vice President, Environmentally Sustainable Development, the World Bank
H. E. Laxmi Mall Singhvi
President of the World Congress on Human Rights, Indian High Commissioner to the Court of St James (London) and President Emeritus of the Author's Guild of India
Ambassador Juan Somavia
Convenor, World Summit for Social Development
J. Gustave Speth
Administrator, UNDP
Andrew Steer
Director of the Environment Department of the World Bank
Hanne Marstrand Strong
President of Manitou Foundation and Manitou Institute, Colorado
Dr Maurice Strong
Chairman Ontario Hydro, Secretary-General, UNCED
Dr M.S. Swaminathan
Sasakawa Environment Prize winner, 1994
Sir Crispin Tickell
Chairman, UK Prime Minister's Panel on Sustainable Development
Professor D. Klaus Töpfer
Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, Germany
Dr Izgrev Topkov
Secretary-General, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
President, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
Anders Wijkman
Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and Director of UNDP's Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
Jorge Wilheim
Deputy Secretary-General of HABITAT II
Tim Wirth
Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs, USA
James D. Wolfensohn
President of the World Bank
Dr Xie Zhenhua
Administrator of China's National Environmental Protection Agency
