Advisory Council

Bruce Alberts
Former President, National Academy of Sciences

Syed Babar Ali
Pro-Chancellor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS); Advisor, Packages Limited

Kamal Benjelloun
President & CEO, Strategic Defense of the Environment Group, Inc.

Nitin Desai
Special Adviser, World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS); former Under-Secretary-General, United Nations

Frances D'Souza
Member, House of Lords

David Fisk
BP/RAEng Chair in Eng for Sustainable Development, Imperial College London

Mohamed Hassan
Executive Director, Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); President, African Academy of Sciences

Elspeth Howe
Member, House of Lords

Yolanda Kakabadse
Executive President, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano; former President, IUCN; former Minister of Environment, Ecuador

Ashok Khosla
Chairman, Development Alternatives

Geoffrey Lean
Journalist, Independent on Sunday

Anne Lonsdale
President, New Hall and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

Claude Martin
Former Director General, WWF International

Helio Mattar
President, Akatu Institute; Co-founder, ABDL

Mark Moody-Stuart
Chairman, Anglo American plc; former Chairman, Shell Transport and Trading Company; former Chair, Business Action for Sustainable Development

Melanie O'Neill
Vice-President, Information Management, GlaxoSmithKline (UK)

R K Pachauri
Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Stephan Schmidheiny
Founder and first Chair, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD); Chairman of ANOVA AG

Ismail Serageldin
Director, Library of Alexandria; former Vice-President, World Bank, Egypt

Bjorn Stigson
President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Maurice Strong
Former Senior Advisor to UN Secretary General; former Chairman, Earth Council; Secretary General, 1992 Earth Summit

M S Swaminathan
Founder and Director, Ms. Swaminathan Foundation; former Head, IRRI; World Food Prize Laureate (India)

Richard Sykes
Former Rector, Imperial College London

Anna Tibaijuka
Executive Director, UN-Habitat

Crispin Tickell
Chancellor, University of Kent; former Head, Green College, Oxford

Stephen Tindall
Founder, The Tindall Foundation

Simon Upton
Chair & President, OECD Roundtable on Sustainable Development; former Minister of Science, New Zealand