Muhammad Saleh KISMADI was the Executive Director of the Indonesian Foundation for Sustainable Development (Yayasan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan) and National Program Director, LEAD Indonesia.
He earned a master's degree in political science from American University in Beirut, Lebanon. M. S. Kismadi also attended Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin in the United States, where he undertook graduate courses in Asian studies, anthropology and political science. In 1954, he was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. His interest was the interaction between the environment, development, population, policy development and social impact analysis. He was made a posthumous Honorary Fellow in 2010.
Nikita Glazovsky, was LEAD CIS Regional Program Director, a Professor of Geography, and Deputy Director, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences. He lectured for the World Bank, the European Summer University in Spain, Moscow State University and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In the early nineties he was the Deputy Minister for Environment Protection, Russian Federation. He was a member of High Ecological Council and the State Ecological Expertise Board of the Russian Federation. For ten years he was a member of the Advisory Board of the World Resources Institute. In 1997, he was elected a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1998 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Federal Ecological Foundation for the Russian Federation. In 2000, he was elected a Vice-President of International Geographical Union.
N.F. Glazovsky authored 120 articles and publications devoted to biogeochemical cycles in the biosphere, assessment of critical ecological situations, protection of natural resources, environmental management and strategies for sustainable development. He also served on the editorial board of several magazines both in Russia and abroad. His doctoral degree in geographical sciences is from Moscow State University.
He was made an Honorary LEAD Fellow posthumously in 2010.
Julia MARTON-LEFEVRE is Director General of IUCN, which brings together Governments, NGOs and scientists in a unique world partnership of over 1000 members spread across most of the globe.
Prior positions have included: Rector of the UN-mandated University for Peace; Executive Director of LEAD International; and Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU); Programme Specialist in Environmental Education under a joint UNESCO-UNEP Programme, university teacher in Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and a staff member of the Fund for Education and Peace in New York.
In addition to her membership on the Board of Directors of LEAD International, she is a member of a number of boards and commissions of relevance to LEAD , including: the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; the Council of UPEACE and of the Earth Charter. Prior board memberships have included the World Resources Insittute (WRI), International Research Institute for Climate and Society(IRI), the International Advisory Board to the Lemelson Foundation, two corporate environmental advisory boards: to the Dow Chemical Company and to The Coca-Cola Company and the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and Development.. She has also served on ICSU's Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries (COSTED); the InterAcademy Council's Panel on Promoting Worldwide Science and Technology Capacities for the 21st Century and on the jury of the Saint Andrew's and Alcan Prizes.
J. Marton-Lefévre has co-authored numerous books and papers. In 1999 she received the AAAS Award for International Cooperation in Science. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of the United Kingdom. She studied history, ecology and environmental planning in the US and in France and was born in Hungary. She was made an Honorary LEAD Fellow in 2010.
Professor Adeniyi Osuntogun is the former LEAD Anglophone West Africa Programme Director. Before this he was Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Nigeria.
Professor Osuntogun holds a BSc Degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Leeds in the UK. He is a specialist in Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy Analysis and has served as a Researcher for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, on Institutional Determinants and Constraints on Agricultural Development. He has also consulted for the World Bank on Applied Poverty-Environment Indicators, as well as for DFID on Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Development in West Africa. He has also consulted for FAO, ILO, IUCN, ECA, AND UNDP. He served as a Consultant Environmental Economist and Evaluator of the African Economic Research Consultium (AERC) Collaborative Master of Arts Programme.
Professor Osuntogun is published in the British Journal of Agricultural Economics, Oxford Agrarian Studies, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural Administration, Journal of Developing Areas, African Journal of Agricultural Sciences, and the West African Journal of Agricultural Economics, among other outlets.
Professor Osuntogun retired as Programme Director of LEAD Anglophone West Africa at the end of 2009. He was made an Honorary LEAD Fellow in 2010.
Simon was the former Chief Executive of LEAD International 2005-2011. Before joining LEAD, Simon was Director General of the Wildlife Trusts, one of the largest nature conservation organisations in the UK. Before that, Simon worked for WWF for nine years, and was responsible for WWF's global policy work on international conventions such as the Biological Diversity Convention and CITES.
Simon is a lawyer by training, qualified in both the UK and the United States. He has a PhD in International Wildlife Law from Cambridge University, has authored a book entitled International Wildlife Law, and is a member of the International Council of Environmental Law.
He is a Trustee of Conservation International - UK, the World Land Trust, and the Kilverstone Wildlife Conservation Trust. He is also a non-executive Director of Northumbrian Water Ltd.
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