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Dr. Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives Group

 

President, Club of Rome; Chairman, Centre for Our Common Future, Geneva; Chairman, WETV, the Global Access TV Channel, Ottawa; Chairman, International Facilitating Committee, Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro; Chairman, IUCN Commission on Environmental Planning; Chairman, ICSU/SCOPE Project on Environmental Information, Paris; Member, SATIS, Utrecht; Member, National Advisory Committee on Environmental Education, Government of India; Member, Indian Environment Congress, New Delhi.

 

 

 

Preeta D Bansal, USA

Partner at the International Law Firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, former Solicitor General of the State of New York , Commissioner on New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Bipartisan Election Modernization Task Force, Advisory Board Member of the Clinton Global Initiative

 

 

Nancy Berry, USA

President, NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, Advisor to Harvard Business School on the HBS Social Enterprise and Poverty initiatives, Former President and CEO of Women's World Banking

 

 

Monique Barbut, France

Chairman and CEO of The Global Environment Facility, former Director of the United Nations Environment Programme's Industry and Environment Office, Paris

 

 

Dr Jagdish Bhagwati, India

University Professor, Economics and Law, at Columbia University , Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations

 

 

 

 

Wouter van Dieren

Chairman, IMSA Amsterdam, an independent consultancy firm and think tank for Sustainability and Innovation, President of Ocean Desert Enterprises (ODE), Member of the Club of Rome and of the World Academy of Art and Science, Author of the report to the Club of Rome, "Taking Nature into Account" 

 

 

Riane Eisler , USA

President of the Center for Partnership Studies, Commissioner of the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, Founding Member of the General Evolution Research Group (GERG)

 

 

Helene Gayle, USA

President and CEO, CARE, former Chief of the HIV/AIDS Division for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Former Director of CDC's Washington Office and of Health Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 

 

Professor José Goldemberg, Brazil

President, Global Energy Assessment Council, former Minister of Environment and of Education in the Federal Government of Brazil, Secretary of State and Professor and Rector at University de São Paulo

 

 

Prabhu Guptara , India

Executive Director, Organizational Development, Wolfsberg, Subsidiary of UBS, Member of the World Future Council

 

 

 

 

 

Vartan Gregorian , USA

President of Carnegie Corporation, Board member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Human Rights Watch, The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation & The Museum of Modern Art

 

 

Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., USA

Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations and Counselor for Political Affairs of the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York , Former U.S. Representative to The Conference on Disarmament, served as Acting Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

 

 

Pamela Hartigan, USA

Managing Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, formerly Director of The Pan African Health Organisation

 

 

Dr Hazel Henderson, USA

Chairwoman Calvert-Henderson, Founder Ethical Markets Media and Creator & Co-Executive Producer of its TV series, Consultant on Sustainable Development, Author of Beyond Globalization

 

 

Kurt Hoffman, USA

Director, Shell Foundation, former Senior Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex and advisor to private foundations, the UN, EU, The World Bank and various Bi-lateral Development Agencies. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2003

 

 

 

Jamshed J Irani, India

Senior Advisor to Ratan Tata, Board member of Tata Steel and other Tata Companies, former CEO and MD Tata Steel

 

 

 

 

Sridar A. Iyengar, USA

Co-Chair America India Foundation, Board Member Infosys Technologies Ltd ADS, ICICI Bank Limited, former President of TiE, Inc., former CEO of KPMG's India , Member of the Executive Board of KPMG's Asia Pacific Practice

 

 

 

Jonathan Lash, USA

President of the World Resources Institute (WRI), former Co-Chairman President's Council on Sustainable Development, former Member of Advisory Groups to the Administrator of the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Trade Representative

 

 

Julia Marton-Lefevre, USA, France

Director General, IUCN and former Rector of the University of Peace

 

 

 

Jean Pierre Lehman, Switzerland

Professor of International Political Economy at IMD, and Founding Director of The Evian Group

 

 

 

Baron Jacques de Mevius, Belgium

Secretary General Union of International Associations, Board: Sebastien Holding (a family of Inbev shareholders), Systems Europe (rural electrification studies), Codeart (Cooperation au Development de I' Artisanat)

 

 

Dr. Mohammed Valli Moosa, South Africa

President of IUCN (The World Conservation Union), former Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Republic of South Africa and Chair, The Earth Summit in Johannesburg, 2002

 

 

 

Ms. Hong Nguyen

Managing Director and Founder of GC Millennium Group, President and Founder of Starise Investments, former Managing Director at GH Ventures, LLC., New York, Senior Manager in Morgan Stanley & Co. and serves on the Boards of a Primary Education Foundation in China and of a number of associations and charity organizations in Viet Nam

 

 

Dr. Olara A. Otunnu, Uganda

President LBL Foundation for Children, President of the International Peace Academy (IPA), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uganda, former UN Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children & Armed Conflict

 

 

David Ong, Netherlands

Co-Chair and Co-Founder Billion Minds Foundation, Investment Banker, Member of Group Management / Board of Advisors, Evian Group, formerly Senior Executive with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith

 

 

Carl Page, Jr., USA

Co-founder and CTO of HandHeld Entertainment, Investor and Entrepreneur, former Chairman eGroups.com

 

 

 

Baroness Cox of Queensbury, UK

Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and Chief Executive of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART)

 

 

 

Rubinstein Robert, USA

Founder and CEO Brooklyn Bride, The Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference and The TBLI Academy, Member of the Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV)

 

 

The Hon Senator Douglas Roche, Canada

Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee, Member of the Order of Canada, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great at the Holy See and former Canadian Disarmament Ambassador

 

 

Ambassador Uri Savir, Israel

President of The Peres Center, Israel's Chief Negotiator for the Oslo Agreement, President of the Glocal Forum, President "Global Metro City - The Glocal Forum" and former Director General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

 

Dhruv M Sawhney, India

Chairman and Managing Director Triveni Group, Chairman of Indian Public Schools Society (Doon School), Companion Member of the Chartered Institute of Management, U.K, former President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

 

 

 

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, India

Founder Art of Living Foundation, Founder International Association for Human Values

 

 

 

Dr. Jannie Tay, Singapore

Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Hour Glass Limited, Founder and Chairman, Save Our Planet Investments Pvt. Ltd., Founder and Patron, Save Our Planet Foundation

 

 

 

Jane Wales, USA

President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Co-founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum, Director of the Secure Society Program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, Director of the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund Project on World Security, National Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility

 

 

 

Pera Wells , Australia

Secretary General, World Federation of United Nations

 

 

 

Dr Ernst von Weiszacker, Germany

Dean and Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara and former Member of the German Bundestag

 

 

Daniel Williams, USA

President, Princeton Global Housing Inc., CEO of Elite Graduate Jobs, Inc.

 

 

 

Herman Wijffels, Netherlands

Executive Director, Board World Bank representing the Netherlands, Eastern Europe, Cyprus and Israel, former Chairman Managing Board and CEO Rabobank International, former Chairman Social-Economic Council

 

 

Dr Johannes Witteveen, Netherlands

Former Chairman IMF, First Chairman of the Group of Thirty and Minister of Finance, Netherlands

 

 

 

 

 

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