CONTRIBUTORS (positions as at the time of writing)

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Lois Abraham an attorney, and co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA Bella S Abzug Co-Founder and President of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) Jim Adam Chairman of the World Energy Council Ellik Adler Regional Seas Programme Coordinator, UNEP Anil K Agarwal Chairperson of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (www.cseindia.org) and was a member of the World Water Commission Salman Ahmad Lead guitarist of Junoon, Pakistan’s top rock band Halyna Alomova Askar Akaev President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan Madeleine K. Albright United States Secretary of State Brad Allenby Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School, United States Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, UNEP Thoraya Ahmed Obaid United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund Dr Christina Amoako-Nuama Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Ghana Chief Emeka Anyaoku President of WWF International David Anderson Canadian Minister of the Environment and President of the UNEP Governing Council Ray C. Anderson, Founder and Chairman of Interface Inc Dr Stephen O Andersen Co-Chair of the Montreal Protocol Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Director of Strategic Climate Projects, US EPA Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division Nelson Andrade Coordinator of UNEP’s Caribbean Environment Programme Kofi A Annan Secretary-General of the United Nations Suzanne Arup Veltzé Managing Director of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Jockin Arputham Slum-dweller and President of India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation – a people’s organization made up of pavement-dwellers and slum-dwellers from more than 30 towns and cities in India. He is a Magsaysay awardee 2000 for international understanding Margaret Arnold Senior Program Officer of the World Bank’s Disaster Management Facility Bagher Asadi Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran is Chairman of the Group of 77 Kader Asmal South Africa’s Minister of Education and the former Chairman of the World Commission on Dams Dr. Oral A. Ataniyazova MD, PhD Chairperson of the Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment (Center PERZENT) and Head of the Reproductive Health department of the Karakalpak Branch of the Uzbek Academy of Science. Sir David Attenborough Broadcaster, board member of Television Trust for the Environment and former Controller of BBC2 Svend Auken Minister for Environment and Energy, Denmark The Hon. Cletus A. Avoka MP Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Ghana Shabana Azmi Actress Eulalie Bashige Baliruhya Director General of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) Francesco Bandarin Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre Monique Barbut Director of UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics Alicia Bárcena Senior Advisor on Global Environmental Citizenship, UNEP Bartholomew of Constantinople Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch Harsha Batra Founder of the Panchavati Green Movement, India Margaret Beckett Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom David Bellamy Broadcaster and President of the Conservation Foundation and Coral Cay Conservation, UK Domingo Jiménez-Beltrán Executive Director, European Environment Agency Dr Michael Ben-Eli International consultant on management and organization, President of Cybertec Consulting Group, New York Dr. Gerhard Berz Head of the Munich Re Geoscience Research Group and Member of its Executive Management Sandra Bessudo Director of the Malpelo/MarViva Foundation Colombia Preety M. Bhandari Director of the Policy Analysis Division, TERI, India Albert Binger Director of the University of the West Indies Centre for Environment and Development, and Visiting Professor at Saga University Institute of Ocean Energy, Saga, Japan Patricia Birnie Co-author of Birnie and Boyle, International Law and the Environment, Oxford University Press (second edition) Ritt Bjerregaard European Commissioner responsible for the Environment and Nuclear Safety Helen Bjørnøy Minister of the Environment of Norway The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Jared Blumenfeld Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment Dr. Thilo Bode International Executive Director of Greenpeace Dr. Rolf Böhme Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Emma Bonino Commissioner for Fisheries with the European Commission Somsook Boonyabancha Director of the Community Organisations Development Institute, Thailand HE Carlston Boucher Vice-Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States and Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations Abdelaziz Bouteflika President of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria Elizabeth Bravo Research Coordinator, Oilwatch Secretariat, Quito, Ecuador Børge Brende Minister of the Environment, Norway Professor Mercedes Bresso President of the Province of Turin, Italy Wendy Brewer Lama an Ecotourism Planning Consultant working with communities protected area managers and the private sector in the Himalaya and parts of China to plan for and promote community-based ecotourism Lester Brown President of the Worldwatch Institute Mark Malloch Brown Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Lynn R. Brown Food Policy Specialist, The World Bank’s Rural Development Department John Browne Group Chief Executive of British Petroleum Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland Director-General of the World Health Organization Philip Bubb Adviser to the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom John Buccini Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee established by UNEP to negotiate a global POPs Convention Gerardo Budowski Professor Emeritus, Department of Natural Resources and Peace at the University for Peace, Costa Rica Robert D. Bullard PhD Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States Antony Burgmans Chairman, Unilever N.V. and Vice-chairman, Unilever Plc Tom Burke Environmental Policy Advisor to Rio Tinto plc and BP Amoco plc and Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London Kathryn Bushkin Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation Millicent Burggraf Australian delegates to the 2005 Children’s World Summit on the Environment in Japan G Victor Buxton Executive with Environment Canada David T Buzzelli Vice President and Corporate Director of Environment, Health & Safety, Public Affairs and Information Systems for The Dow Chemical Company Abdoul Byukusenge UNEP TUNZA Youth Advisor for Africa Luis Cáceres Villanueva Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Antofagasta, Chile Guy Canivet Premier Président de la Cour de Cassation, France Frank A Campbell President of ARISE!, an Ottowa-based communications consulting firm Frank A Campbell President of ARISE!, an Ottowa-based communications consulting firm Julia Carabias Professor of the Faculty of Science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Coordinator of its Restoration Ecology Programme, is Chair of STAP Fernando Henrique Cardoso President of Brazil Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti Special Envoy of the President of Brazil and Chairman, third session, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Maria Celina de Azevedo Rodrigues Ambassador of Brazil and Chair of the Rotterdam Convention’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Lucien Chabason Coordinator of UNEP’s Mediterranean Action Plan Surya Prakash Chandak Director of the National Cleaner Production Centre, India Kate Charters and Sarah Charters Australian delegates to the 2005 Children’s World Summit on the Environment in Japan Arthur Chaskalson Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa Rachel Chatterjee Commissioner of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, India Didier J. Cherpitel Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies John Chilton Hydrogeology Group, British Geological Society, London, UK Jamie Choi F-gases project leader at Greenpeace, China Anwarul K. Chowdhury United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States and Secretary-General of the Mauritius International Meeting for the Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States Colmore S Christian Natural Resource Management Specialist based in Dominica Leif E. Christoffersen Senior Fellow, Noragric, the Agricultural University of Norway, and Team Leader of the Second Overall Performance Study (OPS2) of the Global Environment Facility, 2001 Daniel Chudnovsky Professor of International Business and Development Economics at the University of San Andrés and Director of the Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación (CENIT), Argentina Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand Eileen Claussen President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change Johnny Clegg South African rock star known as the ÒWhite ZuluÓ Corrado Clini Director General of the Italian Ministry of Environment and former co-Chair of the G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy Jenny Clover Senior Researcher at the African Security Analysis Programme, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa The Hon Minister Terry Donald Coe Minister in Charge of Telecoms, Meteorology, the Electrical Power Corporation, the Public Works Department, Administration and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the Government of Niue Dr Theo Colborn Director of the Wildlife and Contaminants Program of WWF-US Mark Collins Director, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Judi Conner Media consultant and former television journalist Dominique Conseil President of Aveda Catherine Nixon Cooke President and CEO of the Mountain Institute, based in Washington, DC The Rt Hon Robin Cook MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK Dr Ralf Corsten Chairman of the Executive Board of Touristik Union International, Hanover, Germany Clifton Curtis Director of the WWF Global Toxics Programme Qin Dahe Co-Chair, Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and, until April 2007, Administrator of the China Meteorological Administration Sir Partha Dasgupta Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge Susmita Dasgupta Environmental Economist, The World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group on Infrastructure and Environment Ogunlade R. Davidson Dean, Post-Graduate Studies at the University of Sierra Leone and Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Mark Davis Project Coordinator at the Pesticides Trust Yvo De Boer Executive Secretary UNFCCC David De Ferranti Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation Daniel De La Torre Ugarte Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics and Associate Director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee Flor de María Perla de Alfaro Director of Environmental Quality, Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, El Salvador Don de Silva Communications Specialist and Environmentalist Dr D J de Villiers Deputy Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, former Minister for Tourism of the Republic of South Africa Yvo de Boer Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Max Deml Editor-in-Chief, Eco-Invest, Vienna, Austria Amaidhi Devaraj Law student at the University of Bangalore, South India Hama Arba Diallo Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Cameron Diaz Actress Barbara Dinham International Projects Officer, Pesticides Trust Darryl D’Monte President of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists 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 Philip Dobie Director of the UNDP Drylands Development Centre, Nairobi Roberto Dobles Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica and President of UNEP’s Governing Council and the Global Ministerial Environment Forum... Dr Paula J. Dobriansky United States Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Professor Rudolf Dolzer Director of the Institut für Völkerrecht, Bonn University, Germany Elizabeth Dowdeswell Former Executive Director, UNEP Alfred Duda Principal Environmental Specialist at the GEF Secretariat Massoumeh Ebtekar Head, Board of Directors of the Centre for Peace and Environment, Tehran Michael T. Eckhart President, Solar International Management, Inc. and President, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Dr Tewolde Berhan G Egziabher Director General of the Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia Peter Eigen Chairman of Transparency International Mersie Ejigu Founder, President and CEO of the Partnership for African Environmental Sustainability (PAES) and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability Dr Mohamed T El-Ashry Senior Fellow, UN Foundation and CEO and Chairman of the GEF 1991-2003 Nadia El-Awady Managing Science Editor, IslamOnline.net and President, Arab Association of Science Journalists Professor Osama A El-Kholy Professor Emeritus at Cairo University and Senior Adviser to the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency John Elkins Executive Vice-President of Visa International and a member of the United Nations Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors Margie Cushing Falanruw Founding member of the Yap Institute of Natural Science, an island-focused NGO working with the Yap Environmental Stewardship Consortium, a part-time employee of the US Forest Service, IPIF, and member of the newly formed Micronesians in Island Conservation Dr. Joe Farman ’Discoverer’ of the Antarctic ozone hole and a consultant to the European Ozone Research Co-ordinating Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom Dr Jan F Feenstra Acting Head of the Chemistry, Toxicology and Ecology Department of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Manager of The Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance Programme Christiana Figueres Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas Victoria Finlay media consultant for the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) and co-author of Faith in Conservation José María Figueres Olsen President of the Fundación Costa Rica para el Desarrollo Sostenible Linda Fisher Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of Dupont Guro Fjellanger Minister of the Environment, Norway Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca Executive Vice President and Executive Director for its Center for Applied Biodiversity Tim Foresman Director of Environmental Information, Assessment and Early Warning, UNEP Professor Stephen Foster Director of Groundwater and Geotechnical Surveys at the British Geological Survey Francesco Frangialli Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization Siv Fridleifsdottir Minister for the Environment, Iceland Al Fry Consultant with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Takeo Fukui President and CEO of the Honda Motor Co. Ltd. Marcelo Furtado Co-ordinator of the Greenpeace International campaign against Toxic Trade Claude Fussler Vice President at Dow Europe and is currently serving as Director of Stakeholder Relations at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Rob Fyfe Chief Executive Officer of Air New Zealand Danielle Fest Grabiel Senior campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency Emma Gabunshina Minister for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources, Republic of Kalmykia Professor Madhav Gadgil Professor in the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Panel of the GEF Giuseppe Gamba Vice President in charge of sustainable development policies, Province of Turin Peter Garrett Rock star, campaigner and politician Elisabeth Gateau Secretary General of United Cities and Local Government Philippe Gautier Registrar, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) HE Maumoon Abdul Gayoom President of the Republic of Maldives Dusty Gedge Co-founder of Livingroofs.org Kristalina Georgieva Director of the Environment Department at The World Bank Adrienne Germain President of the International Women’s Health Coalition Polly Ghazi Senior Correspondent of Green Futures magazine Gourisankar Ghosh Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Geneva Dr L Val Giddings Vice President for Food and Agriculture at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, USA Professor Herbert Girardet Consultant to HABITAT II, holder of a UNEP Global 500 Award Dr Michael H Glantz Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA Dr Johann Georg Goldammer Leads the Fire Ecology Research Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Germany José Goldemberg Secretary for the Environment, State of São Paulo, Brazil Professor Edgardo D Gomez Director of the Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines Leonard Good CEO and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility Al Gore Former US Vice-President and climate campaigner Mikhail Gorbachev Former President of the USSR, currently President of Green Cross International C. Boyden Gray Partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and was Counsel to former President George H.W. Bush John Gummer Former Secretary of State for the Environment, UK Richard Gutierrez Toxics Policy Analyst of the Basel Action Network Pekka Haavisto CChairman of the Afghanistan, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Depleted Uranium and Iraq projects, UNEP Lisa Hadeed WWF International’s Communications Manager Chuck Hagel senior US Senator from Nebraska Elizabeth Halpenny Workshop and Marine Program Coordinator, The Ecotourism Society, Vermont, USA Anne Hambleton Program Director, Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas Andrew L Hamilton Head of the Science Division, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Raphael Hanmbock Coordinator of the African Network for a Climate Community (ANCC) West and Central Africa, and Chairman of ACAN Cameroon HM King Harald V of Norway Ryutaro Hashimoto Chairman of the National Japanese Steering Committee of the World Water Forum Heidi Hautala President of the Green European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament Sanjoy Hazarika Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, author of Bhopal, The Lessons of a Tragedy Dr Susan Hazen Director of the Environmental Assistance Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC Connie Hedegaard Danish Minister of the Environment Dr. Roy A. Herberger Jr. President of Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management Eveline Herfkens United Nations Secretary-General’s Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign Marina Mansilla Hermann Member of Peace Child Argentina and a Student of Environmental Science at the Universidad Católica de Salta (Buenos Aires), Argentina Dr Thor Heyerdahl Explorer and author, based in Tenerife Professor Vernon Heywood Emeritus Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, UK and Executive Editor of UNEP’s Global Biodiversity Assessment Noeleen Heyzer Executive Director, UNIFEM Mark Hickey Human Resources and Regional Services Executive Director of Vodafone Sir Edmund Hillary Chairman of the Himalayan Trust Senator Robert Hill Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage Kenneth F Hine Director General-Chief Executive Officer of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association, Paris, France Kurt Hoffman Director of the Shell Foundation Safura Zavaran Hoseini First-year student of Environmental Engineering in Tehran University and Member of Peace Child International’s Iranian affiliate, the Green Front of Iran 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, USA Hyon-Wook Kang Minister for the Environment of the Republic of Korea Andrei Iatsenia Mountain Programme Coordinator, UNEP Regional Office for Europe Jorge Illueca Assistant Executive Director, Water Branch, UNEP Jeffrey R. Immelt Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Merlinda Ingco Trade and Agricultural Policy Specialist, The World Bank’s Rural Development Department Okwy Iroegbu Head of the Environment/Property Desk, NewAge Newspapers, Lagos, Nigeria Dr Nurul Islam 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 HE Ambassador Razali Ismail President of the United Nations General Assembly Djuna Ivereigh A freelance journalist based in Indonesia Jack D. Ives Senior Advisor on Mountains for the United Nations University and Honorary Research Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Thorbjørn Jagland Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway Ioan Jelev Secretary of State for the Environment, Romania, and was President of COP6 of the Basel Convention Ian Johnson Vice-President and Head of the World Bank’s Network for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Jodi-Ann Johnson Psychology student at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica Sir Richard Jolly Chair of WSSCC – the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council – and Research Associate and Honorary Professor of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, United Kingdom Carlos Joly Senior Vice-President, Storebrand, Norway Hilde Johnson Minister of International Development, Norway Hans Jonsson Chairman of the Federation of Swedish Farmers Ronny Jumeau Minister for Environment and Natural Resources, Seychelles Yolanda Kakabadse Former environment minister of Ecuador and current President of IUCN-The World Conservation Union Shafqat Kakakhel Deputy Executive Director and Officer, UNEP Rami A. Kamal consultant on Saudi Aramco’s Carbon Management Team M. Kannappan Minister of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, India Bakary Kante Director, Division of Policy Development and Law, UNEP Ronnie Kasrils Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, the Republic of South Africa Tim Kasten Chief of the Policy Development Branch of UNEP, responsible for coordinating urban environmental activities Max B. Katta 23, Sierra Leone Robert F Kennedy Jr. Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance Dr Margaret G Kerr Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Environment, Nortel, Canada Elizabeth Khaka SIDS Focal Point, Water Branch, UNEP Fazlun Khalid Founder Director of the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences Martin Khor Director of the Third World Network Ashok Khosla Chairman of Development Alternatives and CEO of TARAhaat Vinod Khosla Founder of Khosla Ventures HE Hon Mwai Kibaki President of the Republic of Kenya Myung Ja Kim Minister of the Environment, Republic of Korea Lee A. Kimball Member of the Group of Experts of the Assessment of Assessments of the state of the marine environment Melinda Kimble Senior Vice President for Program of the United Nations Foundation Alex Kirby Journalist and broadcaster specializing in environmental issues Dr Üner Kirdar Special Representative of the Secretary-General of HABITAT II and Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Tommy Koh Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore and Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies Yuriko Koike Minister of the Environment, Japan Jagdish Koonju Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Alcira Kreimer Manager of the World Bank’s Disaster Management Facility Jan Kubis Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Gunnar Kullenberg Formerly Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention Kwak Kyul-ho Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea Robert Lamb Director of the Television Trust for the Environment Pascal Lamy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Benoit Laplante Environmental Economist, The World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group on Infrastructure and Environment Kjell Larsson Sweden’s Minister for the Environment Andrei Latsenia Mountain Programme Coordinator, UNEP Regional Office for Europe Conrad C. Lautenbacher Vice Admiral, US Navy (Ret.), US Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mary Lean Author of Bread, bricks and belief: communities in charge of their future Tamar Lebanidze Minister of Environment Protection and Natural Resources, Georgia Jeremy Leggett Chief Executive Officer of Solar Century Gerd Leipold Executive Director of Greenpeace International Joseph Lieberman United States Senator from Connecticut and the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2000 Jaime Lerner Governor of Paraná, Brazil, and Special Advisor to the United Nations on Human Settlements Chee Yoke Ling Legal advisor of Third World Network Lim Swee Say Acting Minister for the Environment and Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Singapore Geoffrey Lipman President of The World Travel & Tourism Council, UK John D. Liu Director of the Environmental Education Television Project for China Liu Shuying Vice Chairperson of Jilin Provincial People’s Congress and National Project Director for Modernized Biomass Energy, China Ken Livingstone Mayor of London Laura A. Liswood Secretary General of the Council of Women World Leaders and International Assembly of Women Ministers Masse Lo Regional Programme Director of LEAD Francophone Africa Paul Loeffelman Director, Environmental Public Policy at American Electric Power Tony Loftas Founding Director of Marine Policy magazine Jonathan Loh Editor of WWF’s Living Planet Report Steve Lonergan Director of the Division of Early Warning and Assessment, UNEP Gabino López International Consultant with the Asociación de Consejeros para una Agricultura Sostenible, Ecológica y Humana (COSECHA), Tegucigalpa, Honduras Ana Lorena Gudiño Valdez Graduate in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, National Coordinator for Rescue Mission Planet Earth, and a member of the Youth Environmental Network of Mexico Amory B. Lovins Physicist and co-founder and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute Mindy Lubber President of Ceres 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 Richard G. Lugar Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of Brazil Kseniya Lvovsky Lead Environmental Economist in the World Bank’s South Asia Region Arthur Lyon Dahl Deputy Assistant Executive Director, Environmental Information and Assessment, UNEP Ma Kai Minister in Charge of the State Development and Reform Commission, China Maria Maack Environmental Manager of Icelandic New Energy Wangari Maathai Founder of the Green Belt Movement Rejoice Mabudafhasi Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa, and co-chairs of the Network of Women Ministers of the Environment Isaías Macedo Former Director of the Sugar Cane Technology Centre. Both advise the Centre for Strategic Management and Studies in Brasilia Professor Don Mackay Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Suzanne Maia founder and President of Brasil Sustentavel (BRASUS) Fran P. Mainella Director, US National Park Service Juan Mayr Maldonado Minister of the Environment, Colombia Nelson R. Mandela Patron of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress Shaun Mann Tourism product and market development advisor to the Minister of Tourism, Trade and Industry, Uganda Mamdouh Marie Chief Justice, Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge Chairman of British Airways Bernard Martin Fisherman and conservationist living in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada Claude Martin Director General of WWF International Gerald Marten An ecologist at the East-West Center in Honolulu and author of Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development Julia Marton-Lefèvre Executive Director, LEAD International Timo Maukonen Senior Programme Officer, UNEP-DEWA Sir Robert May Chief Scientific Advisor to the United Kingdom Government, and head of its Office of Science and Technology R Shakespeare Maya Executive Director of the Southern Centre for Energy and Environment, Harare, Zimbabwe Federico Mayor Director-General of UNESCO Jacqueline McGlade Executive Director of the European Environment Agency Thabo Mbeki President of the Republic of South Africa The Rt Hon. Don McKinnon Commonwealth Secretary-General The Rt Hon. Michael Meacher MP Minister for the Environment, UK Terttu Melvasalo Director of UNEP’s Water Branch Terttu Melvasalo Director of UNEP’s Water Branch Angela Merkel Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Aubrey Meyer Director of the Global Commons Institute Joachim Milberg Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG David Miliband Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom Beverly Miller Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados Billie A Miller Secretary of the Governing Council of UNEP Kenton Miller Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Meredith Miller Senior Project Manager, Center for Resource Management, Colorado, USA Terrell J Minger President, Center for Resource Management, Colorado, USA Dr. Vinod Mishra Leader, Behavior and Health Thematic Area and Fellow, Population and Health Studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Secretary-Generalof the International Maritime Organization Russell A. Mittermeier President of Conservation International Professor Ruben Mnatsakanian Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest Professor Mario Molina Nobel Prizewinner for Chemistry Dr. Attila Molnar A member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG Sir Mark Moody-Stuart Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies Elizabeth Mook Assistant Editor with the GEF Mohammed Valli Moosa Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Republic of South Africa Jennifer Morgan Director of the Climate Change Programme, WWF International Elliot Morley Environment Minister, United Kingdom Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda Maria Mutagamba Minister of State (Water) of Uganda and President of the African Ministerial Council on Water Fannie Mutepfa International Coordinator, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and member of the board, Environmental Management Agency, Zimbabwe John Peterson Myers co-author of Our Stolen Future (Dutton, 1996), is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation and Senior Fellow, Commonweal Olav Myrholt Project Manager in the Environment Department of Olympia Utvikling, and a member of the IOC Sport and Environment Commission Sunita Narain Director, Centre for Science and Environment, India Cristina Narbona Minister of the Environment, Spain Ravi Narayanan Director of WaterAid Dr. Ricardo A. Navarro Chairman of Friends of the Earth International Dr Wally N’Dow Secretary-General of the HABITAT II Conference Dr. Rosa Elena Simeón Negrin Minister for Science, Technology and Environment, Cuba Gavin Newsom Mayor of San Francisco Gurdial Singh Nijar Public interests lawyer and international environmental consultant, Penang, Malaysia Poul Nielson EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, and Chief Executive Officer for the EuropeAid Co-operation Office Captain Jai Narain Prasad Nishad Minister of State for Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Government of India Maurice Njoroge 25-year-old Kenyan who addressed the 19th session of UNEP’s Governing Council Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan Patron of IUCN, The World Conservation Union, and RSCN, Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Jordan, a Member of the WWF International Board of Trustees and Honorary President of Birdlife International Dr David Nostbakken Founder of Canada’s Vision Television Network, President of The Global Television Network (WETV) Professor Maciej Nowicki Former Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry, in Poland, President of the EcoFund Foundation Rebecca M. Nyabato a student at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Professor G O P Obasi Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization Keizo Obuchi Prime Minister of Japan Patrick O’Heffernan Hiroshi Ohki Minister of State, Director General of the Environment Agency, Japan Jorma Ollila Chairman and CEO of Nokia Molly Harriss Olson Executive Director of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, USA Arwa Omar TUNZA Junior Board Member Ed Ongley Director, UNEP and Collaborating Centres for GEMS/Water, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario, Canada Hermann E Ott Senior Fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany Nicole R Otte Membership and Book Program Director, The Ecotourism Society, Vermont, USA Abdou-Salam Ouedraogo Senior Scientist, Forest Genetic Resources, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute R.K.Pachauri Director General TERI and Chairman IPPC Loyola de Palacio Vice-president of the European Commission, Responsible for Transport and Energy Jaime Matas Palau Minister for the Environment, Spain Professor Theodore Panayotou Director of the International Environment Program, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University, USA Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi Director-General of the World Trade Organization Suvecha Pant Coordinator of the science page and journalist at The Kathmandu Post, Nepal, and a journalist and English newsreader at national radio station Kantipur FM96.1 Sheela Patel Director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres, India P.J. Patterson Prime Minister of Jamaica Sharyle Patton Director of the Health and Environment Program of Commonweal Seema Paul Senior Program Officer for Biodiversity at the United Nations Foundation Alexander Peal Former goal-keeper for the Liberian national football team and founder and leader of the Society for the Renewal of Nature Conservation in Liberia (SRNCL). Fred Pearce Environment Consultant to New Scientist Dr Robin Pellew Director, WWF-UK Enrique Peñalosa Former mayor of Bogotá Metropolitan John of Pergamon 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 John C Pernetta Senior Programme Officer in charge of International Waters in the GEF Coordination Office of UNEP Goran Persson Prime Minister of Sweden John D. Podesta President of the Center for American Progress and former Chief of Staff to former President Bill Clinton Marcelo Poppe Former Secretary of State for Energy Development of Brazil Pierre Portas Senior Programme Officer of the Secretariat of the Basel Convention. Colin L. Powell Secretary of State, United States of America. The Rt Hon John Prescott MP Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions of the United Kingdom Jules N Pretty Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development The Hon Norris Prevost Minister of Tourism of the Commonwealth of Dominica, and Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Committee on Sustainable Tourism Development Jan Pronk Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands Dr. Nat Quansah Ethnobotanist and independent researcher based in Madagascar, and recipient of the 2000 Goldman Environmental Prize for Island Nations Vicente Fox Quesada President of the United Mexican States Dr A Atiq Rahman Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies and Chairman of the Climate Action Network, South Asia Cherif Rahmani Minister of the Environment of Algeria Aishwarya Rai Bollyowood actress and former Miss World Meenakshi Raman Chair, Friends of the Earth International Sir Shridath Ramphal Co-Chairman, Commission on Global Governance Mamphela Ramphele Retiring Managing Director of the World Bank and Senior Advisor to its President Walter Rast Deputy Director of UNEP’s Water Branch Paul Raymond Bérenger Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius Bushra Razack One of the young editors of Peace Child International’s Rescue Mission 2002 Peter Read Researcher in climate change response strategies at Massey University, New Zealand France Albert René President of Seychelles Sarojeni V. Rengam Executive Director of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific based in Penang, Malaysia James F Reynolds Professor of Environmental Sciences and Biology, Duke University, North Carolina, USA Claire Rhodes Programme Associate at Ecoagriculture Partners Rubens Ricupero Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Prof Dr Ulf Riebesell Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany Jane Roberts Retired schoolteacher and co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA Mary Robinson Formerly President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Executive Director of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative Philippe Roch State Secretary and Director of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape and was President of COP5 of the Basel Convention Anita Roddick Founder of The Body Shop Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica Roh Moo-hyun President of the Republic of Korea The Hon. Tom Roper Project Director, Small Island States Energy Initiative at the Climate Institute, and former Minister for Planning and Environment and State Treasurer of Victoria, Australia David Ross author of Energy from the Waves (Pergamon, 1979), Power from the Waves (Oxford University Press, 1995) and Scuppering the Waves (Open University Network for Alternative Technology, 2001). François Roussely Chairman of Electricité de France Professor F Sherwood Rowland Bren Research Professor, University of California Iwona Rummel-Bulska Chief, Enforcement and Compliance, Environmental Conventions Unit, UNEP Jeffrey Sachs Director of The Earth Institute and Quetelete Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University Nafis Sadik Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and former Executive Director of UNFPA and Secretary-General of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Currently a board member of the United Nations Foundation Ryota Sakamoto A board member of the Children’s World Summit for the Environment Sebastião Salgado Brazilian photographer Emil Salim former Environment Minister of Indonesia and professor at the postgraduate course on environment at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta Richard Sandbrook Executive Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK Dr Richard L Sandor Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Environmental Financial Products LLC, USA K. Madhava Sarma Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol, UNEP Nikhat Sattar Programme Director in IUCN Asia and also the IUCN Asia Coordinator for IYM 2002 David Satterthwaite Edits the journal Environment and Development, and edits the journal Environment and Urbanization Marthinus van Schalkwyk Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa Gerhard Schroeder Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Cedric Schuster Biodiversity Officer, WWF-South Pacific Programme Steven Seagal Actor Charles Secrett Director, Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) Sateeaved Seebaluck Assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government and Environment, Mauritius Ismail Serageldin Vice President, Environmentally Sustainable Development, World Bank Hermann Scheer President of EUROSOLAR and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) Sara J. Scherr President at Ecoagriculture Partners Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor of California David Shaman Environmental Research Analyst, The World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group on Infrastructure and Environment Kalpana Sharma Columnist for The Hindu where she was until recently Deputy Editor Dinah Shelton Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, Washington DC Josette S. Shiner Associate United States Trade Representative Dr Vandana Shiva Director of the Reserch Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, New Delhi, India Clare Short Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom Basanta Shrestha Division Head of Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information System at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Marina Silva Member of Brazil’s Federal Senate and Minister for the Environment HE 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 Tina Skaar Communications Officer of the WWF Global Toxics Programme HE Tuiloma Neroni Slade Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, Ambassador of Samoa to the USA, Permanent Representative at the United Nations Elissa Smith President of the Canadian Youth Environmental Network and North American Representative on the UNEP Tunza Youth Advisory Council Jac Smit President of the Urban Agriculture Network Youba Sokona Head of Energy Program, ENDA-TM, Senegal Lena Sommestad Minister for the Environment, Sweden and co-chairs of the Network of Women Ministers of the Environment The Hon. Saufatu Sopoanga Prime Minister of Tuvalu Gus Speth Dean of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University Mark Stafford Smith Research Fellow, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, Alice Springs, Australia Kevin Stairs Greenpeace International policy advisor for Trade and Toxic issues Achim Steiner Under Secretary General and Executive Director UNEP The Hon Christine Stewart Canadian Minister of the Environment Prof. Joseph Stiglitz Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics and teacher at Columbia University in New York Dave Stirpe Executive Director of the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy Patty Stonesifer Co-chair and President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States Dr Maurice Strong First Executive Director of UNEP, Chairman of the Earth Council Amanda Suutari Environmental journalist Shunichi Suzuki Former Minister of the Environment, Japan Thórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir Minister for the Environment, Iceland M. S. Swaminathan Joint founder of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and winner of the 1994 Sasakawa Environment Prize Cheikh Hamallah Sylah Programme Officer at the Pesticides Action Network – Africa HRH Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud UNESCO’s Special Envoy for Water during the International Year of Freshwater 2003 HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Shoko Takahashi A board member of the Children’s World Summit for the Environment Cassio Taniguchi Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil Richard Taylor Executive Director of the International Hydropower Association Robert L. Thompson Director of Rural Development, The World Bank’s Rural Development Department Ibrahim Thiaw Director of UNEPÕs Division of Environmental Policy Implementation Jeffrey A Thornton Managing Director of International Environmental Management Services, Wisconsin, USA Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Executive Director of UN-HABITAT Professor Dr Klaus Toepfer Executive Director, UNEP Mostafa K Tolba President of the International Centre for Environment and Development and UNEPÕs Executive Director at the time of the negotiation of the Montreal Protocol Takashi Tomita Corporate Director and Group General Manager of Solar Systems Group, SHARP Corporation Oussouby Toure Sociologist, environmentalist and international consultant Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda Honorary Chairman and Member of the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation Jürgen Trittin Minister of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany KT Tunstall Rock star Chris Tuppen Head of Sustainable Development and Corporate Accountability, British Telecom Ted Turner Chairman of the United Nations Foundation Tamari’i Tutangata Director of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme The Hon Simon Upton Environment Minister of New Zealand and Chairman of the Commission on Sustainable Development Peter Usher Formerly Chief of UNEP’s Atmosphere Unit Paul Vallely Former trustee of Traidcraft from 1992-1995 and chair of Traidcraft Exchange from 1995-1999 Cees van de Guchte Senior Project Officer, UNEP/GPA Coordination Office, The Hague, Netherlands Veerle Vandeweerd Coordinator, GPA, Head, Regional Seas Programme and Deputy Director, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation UNEP Professor Jan C van der Leun Co-Chair of UNEP’s Environmental Effects Panel, based at University Hospital of Utrecht. He holds a UNEP Global 500 Award Pieter van Geel State Secretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Netherlands Meenakshi Varandani Environmental Planner, New York, USA Pier Vellinga Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and former Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility. Coordinating author for the IPCC and advisor to UNEP on climate change and water issues Omar Vidal Programme Officer, Water Branch, UNEP Sergio Vieira de Mello Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Transitional Administrator, UNTAET, Dili, East Timor Everton Vieira Vargas Director of the Department of the Environment and Special Issues of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser President of Earth 3000 Dominique Voynet Minister of Town and Country Planning and the Environment of France and was, during France’s recent Presidency of the European Union, President of the Council of European Ministers of the Environment Abdoulaye Wade President of the Republic of Senegal Joke Waller-Hunter Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Margot Wallström European Commissioner for the Environment Hua Wang Environmental Economist, The World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group on Infrastructure and Environment Wang Shucheng Minister of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China Dr Frank Wania Environmental Chemistry Consultant, Toronto, Canada Dr Frank Wania Environmental Chemistry Consultant, Toronto, Canada Dr. Wan Gang Minister of Science and Technology of the PeopleÕs Republic of China Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2005 UNEP Champion of the Earth for North America, and International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference 2002Ð2006 Sir Philip Watts Chairman of the Committee of Managing Directors of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies Christopher Weeramantry Former Vice President of the International Court of Justice Jack Weinberg Director of the Global Chemical Safety Program of the Environmental Health Fund, a US-based NGO. He is Northern Co-Chair of the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Founding President, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, and now Chairman, Bundestag Select Committee on Economic Globalisation David Wheeler Lead Economist, The World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group on Infrastructure and Environment John Whitelaw Special Advisor to the Executive Director, UNEP Richard Wiewiorka Vice Chairman of ISG, LLC, and Chairman of LEAD USA Jorge Wilheim Deputy Secretary-General of HABITAT II Anders Wijkman Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support Dr Philip Williams President of International Rivers Network James B. Willis Director, UNEP Chemicals Timothy E. Wirth President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund Dr Alemayehu Wodageneh Coordinator of the Plant Protection Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations James D Wolfensohn President of the World Bank Peter H.Y. Wong A consultant of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Hong Kong R. James Woolsey Former Director of Central Intelligence and member of the Advisory Council of the Energy Future Coalition Xiang Huaicheng Minister of Finance, China Xie Zhenhua Minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration, China Francis Yamba Director of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Engineering in Zambia Farhana Yamin Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and a former legal adviser to Samoa and the Alliance of Small Island States Ye Ruqiu Senior Adviser to the China State Environmental Protection Administration Liu Yi Deputy Director of the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, China National Environmental Protection Agency Michael Zammit Cutajar Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Oscar B Zamora Department of Agronomy of the University of the Philippines, Los Baños Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates and Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency, ERWDA Hamdallah Zedan Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Han Zheng Mayor of Shanghai Zijun Li China Fellow at the Worldwatch Institute