The Council
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Councillors
Hafsat Abiola-Costello
Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)
Maude Barlow
First Senior Advisor to the UN on water issues to the President of the UN General Assembly
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Senior Director, Sustainable Prosperity
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
Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Founder, Oxford Research Group
Fabio Feldmann
Secretary, Paulista Forum on Global Climate Change and Biodiversity; Board of Directors, Greenpeace International
Prof. Rafia Ghubash
President, Arab Gulf University
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
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
Count Hans-Christof von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary General; Professor at Marburg University
Pauline Tangiora
Maori elder, Rongomaiwahine Tribe
Judge C. G. Weeramantry
Former Vice-President, International Court of Justice
Francisco Whitaker
Co-founder, World Social Forum
Honorary Councillors
Patrus Ananias
Former Brazilian Minister of Social Development and the Fight against Hunger
Dr. Herlind Gundelach
Senator for Science and Research, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
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
