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India
1996-1998 - Cohort 5
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Suhasini Ayer-Guigan lives and works in Auroville, an international community in South India whose aim is human unity. After finishing architectural studies in the “Delhi School of Planning and Architecture” in 1985; she moved to live in Auroville. In 1987 with a few friends she established the “Auroville Centre for Scientific Research” to work on applied research in appropriate building materials and technologies, water management, renewable energy and solar passive / climatic architecture and planning. As the head the “Auroville Design Consultants” the Planning and Design wing of this organization, she undertakes large and small commercial, institutional and residential projects around the country integrating successfully these sustainable Planning, Design and Developmental principles and technologies.
She has received The International Hassan Fathy Award for one of the projects, which was later nominated for the Aga Khan Award '95. The Housing and Urban Development Cooperation (HUDCO) of India has nominated Auroville Building Centre as the best building centre for three consecutive years. 3 of the school projects have been internationally awarded for their innovative design for educational spaces from Design Share USA. |
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India
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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Dr Sujatha Byravan is Senior Fellow at Centre for Development Finance, IFMR, Chennai and the focus of her work here is on climate adaptation. Her interests are in the broad areas of science, technology and development and are grounded in her technical background and education in the biological sciences.
Her recent projects and publications have been on sea level rise, climate migrants and exiles, biotechnology policy, innovation, and science for sustainable development. She was, until recently, President of the Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG), Cambridge, Massachusetts, a non-profit/non-governmental organization devoted to fostering informed debate on the social, ethical and environmental implications of new genetic technologies. CRG carries out policy research, education and advocacy. Previously, she was Director of the Fellows Program at LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) International from 1999-2002, and in that capacity was responsible for developing and executing the program for the graduates of LEAD, who number over 1,300 and work all over the world in various sectors. Sujatha has a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of South Carolina and did her postdoctoral work at the University of California in Los Angeles, U.S.A. She has received numerous grants and awards and has published extensively. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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EXPERTISE:
i. Issues on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation CAREER HISTORY: i. Quality Assurance Officer (CHI LTD. & PROBITAS LTD) ii. Scientific Officer. INTERESTS: An environmentalist with a passion for conservation of biodiversity through environmental sustainability other interests include Networking, Poetry, Movies, Chess & Martial Arts. |
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Anglophone and West Africa
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Pakistan
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Ms. Toor is Communications Officer with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) Islamabad. Before joining AKRSP, she was Information and Outreach Specialist for the UNDP-ENERCON FERTS Project, which aims to create mass awareness of vehicle emission and pollution. Her earlier experience includes freelance consultancy work with development projects as a communications expert, and senior positions in advertising companies. She is part of Network for Community Empowerment and Page Maker, a skill pool of professionals from various fields who come together to explore creativity and offer expertise on different medium sized projects. She has a Masters in English Literature from Kinnaird College, Lahore.
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India
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Until recently Sunder was an Adviser in Development Consulting at ICRA Management Consulting Services Ltd (IMaCS), a cutting edge, trans-disciplinary consulting firm. Sunder worked across IMaCS’s consulting groups/verticals, including International Development, Infrastructure, Urban Development, Energy, and Corporate Sector, providing consulting/advisory leadership to many mandates, as well as team support to many others for a range of multilateral, bilateral, and other clients including UNICEF, The World Bank, ADB, Water and Sanitation Program South Asia, DFID, KfW, USAID, WASTE, and various governments and government organisations at national and subnational levels.
Previously (and currently) he was an independent development researcher and consultant, and worked with a range of clients including multilateral and bilateral development aid agencies including DFID, UNICEF, NORAD, WSP-SA, and occasionally, other agencies such as the India Canada Environment Facility, and WaterAid. Sunder brings a strong track record of recent and current projects in India and elsewhere, and has worked on multiple sectoral verticals in the International Development space since 1996, and has played leadership roles in various mandates and as key team member in many others. He has over 20 years of highly multi-disciplinary experience including with academia, industry, the non-profit sector, development research and consulting. Sunder’s research/consulting domains include Water, Wastewater, & Sanitation; Urban Development, Infrastructure & Planning; Investment Climate and Analyses; PPP; Regulatory Regimes; Climate Change & Adaptation; mountain development and systems, Environmental & Public Health; Environment and Livelihoods; Indigenous Peoples and Systems, NRM, Renewable Energy, ICT4D, Biological Diversity, Landscapes, Protected Areas and Conservation, CSR and CR, KM and KM4D. Sunder’s primary functional consulting areas/interests include Policy Research & Analyses; Sector Studies, Regulatory Governance and Research; Programme Design and Management; M&E. He has a wide range of interests including policy and regulatory reforms, global sustainability, climate change, climate impacts, and adaptation, economics of development, international relations, natural history, and wildlife ecology, among others. Sunder is also an avid photographer. Sunder's research/consulting sectoral portfolio and expertise spans the development spectrum and includes water supply, sanitation and related public health and epidemiological issues, emergencies, relief and rehabilitation, environmental health, information and communication technologies (ICTs), energy, education, human rights (especially relating to women and children), policy research and analyses, and program/project design and management, monitoring and evaluation, among others. Sunder has a wide range of interests including global sustainability, economics of development, international relations, natural history, wildlife ecology, and also the mathematics of chaos, fuzzy logic and fuzzy theories, artificial intelligence, and theoretical and experimental high energy physics. He is also an avid mountaineer, trekker, photographer, and his hobbies include reading (both non-fiction and fiction) and writing. He is also interested in music (hindustani classical and jazz). |
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India
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Suneetha Dasappa Kacker is an architect with an M.Phil. in housing and urban studies. She studied at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. While working on her undergraduate thesis, she developed an interest in shelter and urbanization processes. She pursued these during her Graduate studies at the Architectural Association Graduate School, in London. Her MPhil thesis was concerned with people-state negotiations for shelter in the context of New Delhi.
Suneetha has been involved with development plans for towns in various parts of India. She is currently working as urban specialist with Ecosmart India Limited, a consulting firm that provides environmental and social services in the infrastructure sector. For specific urban projects, she is responsible for assessing needs through stakeholder consultations, and analysis of issues, leading to identification of interventions. Her personal interest lies in analyzing planned and unplanned processes of participation in the urban sphere, and the impacts of these on the city and on urban policy. Since 1987, Suneetha has also been involved with development issues in the Himalayan region of ladakh. She has documented settlement patterns, building traditions, skills and patterns of resource utilization over the years; and changes in these as a result of government policies, development activities and shifts in people’s perceptions. She has recently advised in, and supervised, the construction of a school building in a remote village in Spiti. Suneetha lives and works in Delhi. She is married and has a 4-year-old son. |
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India
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Sunita Rabindranathan has done her graduation in agriculture sciences and post graduation in Ecology and Environment. She has been working for the social development sector in areas related to rural livelihoods, water harvesting, women and children etc. Before joining LEAD she had been working with organisations like International Federation for Women in Agriculture, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and New Concept Information Systems. Her keen interest in issues related to environment and the growing nuances due to the poor management of it has made her to devote her career to the same
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India
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Indonesia
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Surur WAHYUDI is Program Officer of BORDA (Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association) Indonesia. BORDA is German NGO who works focusing on development co-operations that aim to provide sustainable and environmentally sound services for basic needs to disadvantaged segments of society. Surur is in charge for program preparation, planning, implementation and monitoring.
Surur is pioneering the Community-Based Sanitation Program (SANIMAS) since 2001. An approach to fulfill basic sanitation services for the urban poor which attract multi-stakeholders involvement. Since 2006 SANIMAS has been successfully implemented nation wide. Surur has developed and conducted several training modules, lobby national stakeholders, involved as socio-economic experts in several national sanitation studies. |
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India
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Mr.Acharya has been working in the Nepalese Administrative Service for almost two decades. In the past, he served in the capacity of Planning Officer and Local Development Officer to different District Development Committee offices and Executive Officer to the Municipality under the Ministry of Local Development HMG/Nepal. Similarly Mr. Acharya served as EC funded Rural Development Project to Nepal as National Co-Director for a period of three and half years. Further he worked with an IFAD funded Poverty Alleviation Project to Nepal as Project Coordinator for a period of two years. He has represented the local institutions and rural development projects on different national, international, workshops, seminars and meetings. He experienced in the field of local governance, participatory planning process, project management and local environmental management.
He attained the master's Degree in Political Science from the Tribhuvan University, Nepal, with a bachelor's Degree in Law. Furthermore, he accomplished the Post Graduate Course on Poverty Alleviation and Post Conflict Reconstruction from the Victoria University of Manchester, UK, and he has participated the training programme on Advanced International Training on Local Environmental Management - a Multi Sectoral Approach to Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development, from Life International Foundation for Ecology, Sweden and Malaysia. Currently, Mr. Acharya has been working in the capacity of Under Secretary and In charge of Information, Publication and Documentation Section of Ministry of Local Development, Nepal. He has been decorated with an award of Praval Gorkha Dakshin Bahu (forth). In addition these he has published different articles on new dimension of development, and social issues in the periodicals and national news papers. Moreover, He is serving as a member of editorial board for a trimester magazine Swashasan, the Journal of Self Governance & Rural Development, an official publication of Ministry of Local Development in Nepal. |
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Indonesia
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Suryaningsih FARIANTO is a consultant for Business Process Improvement, Cleaner Production (Industrial Process Efficiency Improvements), and Environmental Management System (EMS ISO-14001).
She is currently working for the Business Performance Improvement for the Jakarta Electricity Company. She is responsible for design and implement the business processes consistently, and to handle project management and administration. In year 1995-1997, she worked for the USAID-ICIP Program (Indonesia Cleaner Industrial Production) to conduct cleaner production assessments, trainings, implementation and monitoring the results for the following industrial sectors: pulp and paper, flexible packaging, lead acid battery, wood working, etc. In the environmental area, she has been certified as an Environmental Auditor in 1998 by an International Proffesional Auditor Organization-IEMA/EARA (Environmental Auditors Registration Ascociation) UK. Her background is Chemical Engineering (Bachelor), graduated from the Institute of Technology Bandung - Indonesia, in 1990. She earned her master degree in Occupational Health and Safety from University of Indonesia in August 2002. Most of her 12 years-working experiences are in industrial-environment field. Her interests is to improve industrial business performance which consider to the environment, health and safety issues. |
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Canada
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Susan is the Director of the International Women’s Rights Project, and also works as a consultant based out of Vancouver and Johannesburg. She has 20 years professional, strategic and technical experience as a lawyer, independent consultant, author, executive director, trainer, researcher and advisor. Susan is skilled in managing organizations: budgetary and staff management, board governance, fundraising and sustainable development. She has a proven ability to think strategically, excellent facilitation and communication skills and is recognized for leadership, exercising sound judgement and her ability to adapt quickly in multiple and varied cultural situations. Susan also has expertise in dispute resolution, is able to work effectively within teams as well as independently, is an accomplished author of texts, articles, evaluations and popular education materials and has the ability to forge strategic alliances across sectors and manage multiple stakeholders.
Since obtaining her BA and LLB in Human Rights Law, Susan has spent most of her career focused on the practical improvement of women’s human rights in developing countries and countries in transition. Much of this work has focused on the development of women and girls through the design and implementation of projects with bi- and multilateral donors and local and international NGOs. She has had a particular focus on violence against women issues in Canada, Southern and Eastern Africa, but has also worked in Russia, the US, Indonesia, Balkans, Baltic, Central Asia, to name a few. |
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Canada
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Susan Lett is the general manager at Kelly's Business Centre in Edmonton. The business centre provides comprehensive business and communication services for a variety of businesses. Ms. Lett is a member of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau, the Edmonton Downtown Association, the Edmonton International Businessman's Association and Connecting Women.
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Canada
1995-1997 - Cohort 4
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Susan Elizabeth Reed TANAKA is deputy chief of engineering design and an official of the Toronto Transit Commission. She is responsible for structural, architectural, electrical and power, mechanical and utilities, and property and alignment design. This includes engineering design standards and specifications for transit and transit-related facilities. She was formerly manager of environmental compliance in the safety department. She has been recognized for her design work for the Toronto subway system, improving accessibility for the blind. She has a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Toronto (1983) and is a licensed architect (1988).
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Canada
1999-2001 - Cohort 8
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Currently enrolled in the MA Environment and Management programme at Royal Roads University, Susan is the proprietor of Due South Strategies (1996), she is an award winning innovative project management professional with two decades of experience working in the field of resource management specific to collaborative management strategies providing facilitation and leadership skills
She has facilitated and participated in numerous multi-stakeholder teams which included community, First Nations, research, ENGO and the private sector leading to the development and implementation of numerous resource management programs which link socio-economic and environmental needs. As a skilled facilitator with an advanced level of communication skills (both written and oral), she has facilitated and participated in countless meetings, workshops and conferences. She has provided a wide range of consulting services to government, NGO, research and private sector organizations over the past twenty years. As a problem solver, she has provided leadership and strategic direction with a record of success. |
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Canada
2010-2011 - Cohort 16
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Susan Hall is vice-president of the central Canada region and is acting director of Sustainability and Collaborative Planning. Her role includes leading a diversity of projects, focused primarily on sustainability planning for municipalities followed by community-based social marketing campaigns to effect positive behavioural change, and community engagement through facilitation, focus groups and other research methods.
Her interest in sustainability planning started with her decision to attend York University’s Environmental Studies program which expanded her knowledge from ecological systems to the economic, social and political factors that influence the decisions made about the environment. Her work at Lura has focused on key sustainability issues ranging from homelessness in Toronto, to zero waste employment opportunities in Simcoe County, to source water protection for Lake Simcoe. Her projects have spanned the breadth of sustainability issues and her focus in recent years has been on working with communities and their municipalities to develop long ranging sustainability plans though community –based planning processes. Her passion lies in working with municipalities to develop practical sustainability plans that the community can embrace. She has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario as well as a Bachelors in Wildlife Biology from the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. |
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Southern and Eastern Africa
1998-2000 - Cohort 7
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Susan Kondwani NYIRENDA is the chief chemist at
Ethanol Company Limited. She previously worked for David Whitehead and Sons in Malawi as a chemist. She is interested in sensitizing industries and organizations to sustainable development by working in collaboration with the Environmental Council of Malawi. She graduated from the University of Malawi with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and is now pursuing a master's of business administration at Newport University. |
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USA
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Susan Lang has worked in the water chemistry field since 1985. She is currently employed by the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility in Alaska. In 2006 she was awarded the GW Fuller Award for her distinguished service to the water supply field. Susan has a BSc in Water and earned an MSc in Environmental Quality Science from the University of Alaska. She has a certificate in Sustainable Environmental Management from UC Berkeley.
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Europe
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Obtained a BSc (Hons) Consumer Product Management in 1992 - this science and
management degree gave me an insight into how damaging the consumer industry is and I never worked in it. The good thing was it made me 'environmentally friendly'! For the last seven and half years I have been employed by construction management consultancies, until recently by Turner & Townsend. Unfortunately nearly all of the projects I have managed have been mainstream ie. very little eco-build but I hope to change that now by setting up a consultancy to work on sustainable development projects. Decision to change from mainstream built environment work to eco and sustainable development came after I took a seven month career break last year. When I returned to work in UK I was even more disillusioned with the work I was doing, particularly after all the sustainable buildings I discovered on my travels. I attend lots of meetings/events on climate change (ODI, Transition Towns, Homes & Communities Academy, Urban Design Group etc) but would now like to formalise my work in this area. My interests are photography and growing vegetables/fruits which I got into whilst on my career break. |
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Mexico
1997-1999 - Cohort 6
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Susana Rojas GONZALEZ-CASTILLA is the executive director of Pronatura PenÃnsula de Yucatán, a non-profit organization concerned with natural resources in the Yucatán PenÃnsula. She is also an active member of the consultant committee of the Mexican Fund for Conservation (Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación). She did her social service and field work at the Institute of Ecology and from 1985 to 1990 she was responsible for the environmental education, rural development and ecotourism projects in one of the sanctuaries of the monarch butterfly in Michoacán, Mexico. In 1990, she became director of environmental education in the Yucatán State Ecology Ministery, where she promoted the network of environmental educators for the south-south east region of Mexico. She studied biology with a special focus on ecology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City.
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Europe
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Susanne has several years of work experience in the finance industry, focusing on the origination and execution of equity-linked, equity and debt offerings in Asia-Pacific and Europe. She recently joined Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong after having worked for Morgan Stanley in Asia and Europe, where she lead equity-linked, equity and debt offerings for Public Sector and corporate clients. She has a master's degree in economics from University of Mannheim in Germany.
Outside work, Susanne's main interests are travelling, reading and running. She first became interested in sustainable development issues through her support of the SEARA, a day care centre for undernourished children in Santerem, Brazil. |
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Europe
2005-2006 - Cohort 11
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Susanne Willner, is Specialist Adviser at the Rioplus Pilot Project of Deutsche Gesellschaft for Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH (http://www.gtz.de). GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The aim of the Rioplus Pilot Project is to identify and promote approaches for developing and implementing sustainable development strategies on national and local level.
She is responsible for the development of training and consulting products in the field of - Negotiating mechanisms and stakeholder dialogs, - Strategic communication and awareness-raising, - Strategic planning tools and workshops. She works as a trainer and consultant organizational development and key competences for sustainable development (systems thinking, developing shared visions and strategies, decision-making and acting in complex systems, communication, cooperation and teamwork). Additionally, during an on-going consulting process she supports the German-Tunisian Environmental Program in developing and implementing their activities in regional environmental and sustainable development planning processes in Tunisia. Before joining GTZ she was director of the Environmental Education Department of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Germany (1997 - 2001). Susanne Willner has a degree in Geo-Ecology with specialisation in soil science and she attended a one-year Advanced Training in Agricultural and Rural Development (CATAD): Development policy and project management in developing countries. |
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Brazil
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Suselei Aparecida Goes is a graduated executive secretary. Before being part of the ABDL / LEAD Brazil team, she worked at a consulting and training company and also at USP, where she was responsible for consulting, seminars, courses and workshops infrastructure management. At ABDL / LEAD Brazil, she is responsible for the administrative area, cost management and results maximization. Portuguese: fluent in writing, speaking and reading English: intermediate in writing, speaking and reading Spanish.
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Indonesia
2000-2002 - Cohort 9
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Susi has been a lecture at the Department of Accounting and Master of Management, the University of Lampung since 1995. She teaches International Accounting, Accounting Information System and Management Control Systems. Prior to this, Susi worked as a project accountant for Nestlé Beverages Company in Lampung.
Beside teaching, she has experienced working as an external auditor in a local public accountant office, and as an internal auditor for local and international NGOs (Center of Social Strategies & Policy and Euro- Biodiversity Project ). She was also a translator at Financial Times Int'l Corp. in Manila, the Philippines. Susi is now pursuing her PhD in Environmental Accounting at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her research area is environmental reporting and management's responses to environmental issues. |
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Indonesia
2009-2010 - Cohort 15
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Susy has served the Indonesian Ministry of Environment since 1999 as a Policy Analyst on Environmental Economics. In 2000 she was appointed as Head of Section for Economic Instrument, Deputy for Environmental Economics & Social Affairs. In 2002 she became the Head of Section for Urban Community and Business Partnership, Deputy for Community Role Development where she was responsible for raising awareness & empowering urban community in environmental management, especially for business community, NGO, press and community groups. Since 2007 she has worked as the Head of Subdivision for Environment Caucus where she is responsible for raising awareness, capacity building, legislative support for political parties on environmental issue.
Susy has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Procurement from Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy in 2008. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Management from Universitas Parahyangan, Bandung. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Studies from Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia. |
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Indonesia
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Suwarni Salyo is a Board Member of the Yayasan Sumbangsih, an educational foundation (operating 8 schools). She also as a board member of the Yayasan Pendidikan (educational foundation) 'ISWI' which is operating 2 academis.
She graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia and was having carreer as a member of parliament (Council of people's Representatives) and as a member of the supreme advistory Council of the Republic of Indonesia. She also participated on several national and international seminar (in ex.: United Nation Inter-regional Seminars). |
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Canada
1994-1996 - Cohort 3
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Suzie Lemyre is the national storage tank coordinator with Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), Environmental Services. She manages the national storage tank program at PWGSC including registration, compliance verification, removal and replacement projects and site remediation. As well, Ms. Lemyre conducts chemical storage inspections, assists with environmental audits and decommissioning reports at federal facilities. She co-chairs the interdepartmental storage tank committee and is an active volunteer with the minor hockey league association, soccer and baseball leagues and is a member of the school parent committee.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
1992-1994 - Cohort 1
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Svetlana A. FATEEVA (Sveta) is professor of industrial statistics at the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics, where she earned a Ph.D. in economics. Now she is the deputy chief of a Analitical department of 'Slaviansky Bank' in Moscow. She enjoys sports.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
2008-2009 - Cohort 14
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Svetlana L. Kopylova graduated from Moscow State University, Geographical department, in 2002 with Masters degree in Geography. She has a Masters of Arts in Sociology (French University College, MSU & Sorbonna University). She is fluent in English and French.
Having changed several jobs (eco-tourism management, news-making, analytics etc.), since 2004, Svetlana is working in Environmental Education Center “Zapovedniksâ€. It’s Russian non-profit organization with a mission to build public awareness and support to Russian Protected Areas (PA). For 3 years (2005-2008) she was Project Manager for GEF/UNEP Medium-Sized Project “Strengthening the network of Training Centres for Protected Area Managers of Northern Eurasiaâ€, where 3 new training centers for PA staff were created in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Now she’s the Head of PA Training Center and Deputy Director on Strategic Development. Responsible for strategic development, fundraising, launch and promotion of new services, project management, financial management, consulting services to protected areas etc. Svetlana is a member of World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN since 2005 and member of European Training Task Force of WCPA since 2007. In 2009 she was selected to become Vice-Chair of WCPA/IUCN on Youth and Intergenerational Partnerships. Svetlana has several publications in PA management field; she’s also translated a number of international best practice books, consecrated to protected areas. She’s now working on her thesis on “Integration of European ecological networks into regional socio-economic developmentâ€. |
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