The Council
Click the orange dots on the map - and find out where the council members come from or where they focus their activities.
Hafsat Abiola-Costello
Human and civil rights campaigner; Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
Dr. Tariq Banuri
WFC Executive Commitee Member, Senior Fellow of the Stockholm Environment Institute
Maude Barlow
Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Director, The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL)
HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal
President and Patron of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), ISESCO Ambassador for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilisations, President of the FIIRD
Prof. Dr. Tewolde Berhan Egziabher
General Manager, Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia
Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Founder, Oxford Research Group
Prof. Rafia Ghubash
President, Arabian Gulf University
Olivier Giscard d'Estaing
Chairperson, Committee for a World Parliament; Governor, Atlantic Institute
Bianca Jagger
WFC Executive Commitee Chair, Human rights advocate; Council of Europe, Goodwill Ambassador
Baroness Helena Kennedy
Barrister and QC; President, School of Oriental and African Studies (London
University); Member of the House of Lords, UK
Ashok Khosla
Chairman, Development Alternatives; Co-President, Club of Rome
Prof. C. S. Kiang
Founding Dean, College of Environmental Sciences
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich
Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment
David Krieger
President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Ylva Lindberg
Founder and Managing Director, SIGLA
Dr. Rama Mani
Executive Director/CEO, International Centre for Ethnic Studies
Prof. Stephen Marglin
WFC Executive Commitee Member, Economist, Harvard University
Prof. Dr. Manfred Max-Neef
Pioneer of 'Barefoot Economics', Former Rector, Universidad de Chile, Valdivia
Dr. Katiana Orluc
Middle Eastern expert; visiting Professor, Harvard University
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in West Africa
Dr. Vithal Rajan
Vice-President, Oxfam India, Chairman, Governing Body/Confederation of Voluntary Associations
Prof. Dr. Vandana Shiva
WFC Executive Commitee Member, Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Count Hans-Christof von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary General, Chairman, Centre for the UN Millenium Development Goals, Basel/Switzerland
Kaarin Taipale
Sustainable urban development expert
Pauline Tangiora
Maori elder, Rongomaiwahine Tribe, New Zealand
Judge C. G. Weeramantry
Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice
Francisco Whitaker
Co-founder, World Social Forum
Anders Wijkman MEP
President, GLOBE EU; former UN Assistant Secretary General
