The Council

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Councillors

Hafsat Abiola-Costello

Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)

Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish

Founder, SEKEM

Maude Barlow

First Senior Advisor to the UN on water issues to the President of the UN General Assembly

Rae Kwon Chung

Director, Environment and Sustainable Division, UNESCAP

Tony Colman

Director, Africapractice

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Senior Director, Sustainable Prosperity

Nicholas Dunlop

Co-founder and Secretary General, e-Parliament

Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Dürr

Nuclear physicist and philosopher

Jared Duval

Author and Fellow, Demos

HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal

President, Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD)

Prof. Dr. Tewolde Berhan Egziabher

Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia

Riane Eisler

President, Centre for Partnership Studies

Dr. Scilla Elworthy

Founder, Oxford Research Group

Fabio Feldmann

Secretary, Paulista Forum on Global Climate Change and Biodiversity; Board of Directors, Greenpeace International

Tim Flannery

Chairman, Copenhagen Climate Council

Prof. Rafia Ghubash

President, Arab Gulf University

Cyd Ho

Member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council

Wes Jackson

Co-founder and President, The Land Institute

Ashok Khosla

President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Chairman, Centre for Development Alternatives

Prof. C. S. Kiang

Founding Dean, College of Environmental Sciences, Beijing

Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich

Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment

David Krieger

President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Dr. Rama Mani

Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies (University of Oxford); Advisor to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Prof. Stephen Marglin

Economist, Harvard University

Prof. Dr. Manfred Max-Neef

Pioneer of 'Barefoot Economics'

Frances Moore Lappé

Founder, Small Planet Institute

Youssou N'Dour

Musician and human rights advocate

Dr. Katiana Orluc

Middle Eastern expert; visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Somalia

Dr. Vithal Rajan

Vice-President, Oxfam India, Chairman, Governing Body/Confederation of Voluntary Associations

Prof. Dr. Vandana Shiva

Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology

Sulak Sivaraksa

Co-founder, International Network of Engaged Buddhists

Count Hans-Christof von Sponeck

Former UN Assistant Secretary General; Professor at Marburg University

Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki

Chairman, Central Environmental Council, Japan

Pauline Tangiora

Maori elder, Rongomaiwahine Tribe

Judge C. G. Weeramantry

Former Vice-President, International Court of Justice

Francisco Whitaker

Co-founder, World Social Forum

Anders Wijkman

President, GLOBE EU; former UN Assistant Secretary General

Honorary Councillors

Tadatoshi Akiba

Mayor, City of Hiroshima, Japan

Patrus Ananias

Former Brazilian Minister of Social Development and the Fight against Hunger

Dr. Olivier Giscard D'Estaing

Chairman, INSEAD Foundation

Dr. Herlind Gundelach

Senator for Science and Research, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Wangari Maathai

Founder, Green Belt Movement

Dr. Michael Otto

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Otto Group

The Hon. Arthur N.R. Robinson

Former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Co-Chair, International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management

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