Advisory Council

Dr Bruce Alberts
Former President, National Academy of Sciences

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

The Baroness D'Souza, CMG
Member, House of Lords

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

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

The Baroness Howe of Idlicote, CBE
Member, House of Lords

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

Dr Ashok Khosla
Chairman, Development Alternatives

Mr Geoffrey Lean
Journalist, Independent on Sunday

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

Dr Claude Martin
Former Director General, WWF International

Helio Mattar
Co-founder, ABDL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sir Richard Sykes
Rector, Imperial College London

Dr Anna Tibaijuka
Executive Director, UN-Habitat

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

Mr Stephen Tindall
Founder, The Tindall Foundation

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