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 Koichiro
Matsuura has been the Director General of UNESCO since the
year 1999. Mr Matsuura was educated at the Law Faculty at
the University of Tokyo, Economics from Herverford College
(University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Doctor of Law from
University of Santo Tomas, Phillipines. This is his second
term as the Director General of UNESCO. Prior to this, the
posts that he held include Director General of the North
American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Deputy
Minister for Foreign Affairs; and Chairman, UNESCO World
Heritage Committee. During the 1970s, he served as counselor
at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC, and later as
consul general in Hong Kong. |
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 Dr. Michael Atchia is Former Chief and Programme Director with the United Nations (UNEP), co-responsible for the world-wide UNESCO-UNEP International Environmental Education Programme from 1986 to 1996; a co-ordinator and initiator of the first training courses in integrated environmental management at Dresden, Adelaide, Geneva, Tufts in Boston, Nairobi etc. He is also the co-author of the world's first textbook on Integrated EM ("Issues and Solutions" in Environmental Management, John Wiley, publishers, 1995). Apart from that, he is a curriculum developer, radio and TV presenter; and is the first scientist from the South to be elected President of the Commission for Education of IUBS. He was also Director of Education (Diocese of Port-Louis, Mauritius) from 1997 to 2003; and a Senior Adviser to Minister of Education, from 2004 to July 2005. |
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 Prof. Abelardo Brenes is Professor in Peace Education. His present responsibilities at UPEACE include Designing and planning an M.A. Program in Peace Education as well as a Course development and teaching in Peace Studies in various graduate programs.
He is a Ph.D. Psychology, University of Birmingham, England (1977), Residence in Clinical Psychology, Marlborough Day Hospital, London, England, (August 1975 to February, 1977); and a recognized specialist in Health Psychology, Colegio Profesional de Psicólogos, Costa Rica.
He has been working as a Professor of Psychology and Researcher, Institute for Psychological Research; University of Costa Rica since1977. He is also a Researcher, Institute of Social Studies and Population, National University. From 1994 to 2001, he worked as a Director, Program for a Culture of Peace and Democracy, University for Peace in Central America. He also worked as a consultant with individual, family and marital psychotherapy; and also a consultant in work motivation, group processes and organizational development.
From 2001 to 2002, he was Senior Advisor in Education, University for Peace. He taught ‘Irenology’ and ‘Peace Education’ at UPEACE. His research works include ‘Development of educational strategies, linking culture of peace and the promotion of healthy lifestyles’, ‘The development of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in youth populations’ and ‘The development of indicators for cultures of peace’.
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John is the President and the Chief Executive Officer of
the Commonwealth of Learning. His appointment to this post
in 2004 was the culmination of an international academic
career that included 17 years as a university president
(Laurentian University, Canada and the UK Open University)
and experience as Assistant Director-General for Education
at UNESCO.
The guiding passion of his career has been the expansion
of educational opportunity through the intelligent use of
technology. He finds that the Commonwealth of Learning,
with its mission to help developing countries use new approaches
to increase the scale, scope and quality of learning, is
the ideal platform for putting that principle into practice. |
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 Prof. Dr. Hans J. A. van Ginkel, who was born in Indonesia, completed his M.Sc from Utrecht University followed by a PhD. Since 1988, he has been Chair of the National Science and Technology Week, a foundation focusing on information to the public - in particular youth - on recent developments in science and technology. From 1968 to 1985, Prof. Dr. van Ginkel worked at the Utrecht University in the faculty of Geographical Sciences. In 1980, he was appointed a full professor in Human Geography and Planning, and in 1986 he became the Rector Magnificus. He has also been the chair of the Coordinating Committee of Advisory Councils on Science Policy; he was a Board member and vice-president of the European Universities Association; and was also Vice-President and President of the International Association of Universities, Paris; as well as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He extended the cooperative links of Utrecht towards Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa and became Under-Secretary-General of United Nations and Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo in 1997. His special fields of interest are urban and regional development, population and housing studies, public administration, and the application of geographical knowledge in society.
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 Prof.
Charles Hopkins is the UNESCO Chair for Reorienting Teacher
Education for Sustainability at York University, Canada
and a United Nations University (UNU) Chair on Education
for Sustainable Development. He is also advisor to the Dean
of the faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
In addition, he is Executive Director of the John Dearness
Environmental Society, a Canadian environmental NGO; and
a Chair of the Education for Sustainable Development Working
Group of the UNESCO, Canada - Man and the Biosphere Committee
(MAB).
Professor Hopkins received Silver Jubilee Medal from HRH
Queen Elizabeth for his work in education; awarded for lifelong
contributions to environmental education by North American
Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE); and was
given an award of appreciation from the Prime Minister of
Canada for personal contribution to United Nations Conference
on Environment and Development (UNCED). |
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 Dr. Natarajan Ishwaran is the Director, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, UNESCO, Paris. He is also Secretary of the MAB Program and UNESCO focal point for biodiversity. He is from Sri Lanka and has been working for UNESCO since 1986 and has experience with the World Heritage Convention, Biosphere Reserves, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program and other UNESCO environmental initiatives. He is emphasizing the use of UNESCO designated sites such as World Heritage areas, biosphere reserves and geoparks as globally significant areas for learning sustainable
development practices that are targeted to reducing biodiversity loss, adapting to climate
change and attaining Millenium Development Goals.
He majored in Zoology, receiving a master’s degree in Animal Ecology from the University of Peradeniya, Sri-Lanka and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology and wildlife management from Michigan State University.
He has published over twenty papers related to science and technology and participated in the editing of two books on the management of natural reserves and protected areas.
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 Prof. Bjarne Bruun Jensen is working with the Department of Curriculum Research, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a wide range of expertise which includes ‘Action and Participation as key concepts in environmental and health education’, ‘Young people's concepts of health, inequality in health and action for health’, ‘Action Competence - a key concept in environmental and health education’, ‘The knowledge component in an action-oriented environmental and health education’, ‘The collaboration between school and the local community on environmental and health education’, ‘Social inequality in health - a challenge for schools?’, ‘Professionel competences related to facilitating an action-oriented health education and promotion’, ‘ICT as tool for an action-oriented environmental and health education’, ‘Inter-cultural perspectives on action competence and health and environmental education’ etc. Some of his publications are ‘Changing concepts of health and illness among children among primary school age in Western Kenya ‘, ‘Online Learning Environments and Participatory Health Education .Journal of Curriculum Studies’etc.
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 Prof.
Goolam Mohamedbhai is the President of the International
Association of Universities. He is also the Chairman of
the Regional Scientific Committee for Africa of the UNESCO
Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge. He was
formerly the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mauritius.
He had been Chairman of several university associations,
including the Association of Commonwealth Universities (2003-2004),
the University Mobility in the Indian Ocean Rim (2001-2004),
and the University of the Indian Ocean (1998-2005). He obtained
his Bachelor’s and Doctorate degrees in Civil Engineering
(University of Manchester, UK) and did his postdoctoral
research at the University of California, Berkeley, under
a Fulbright-Hays award. |
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 Sunita Narain has been with the Centre for Science and Environment from 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre. She began her career by writing and researching for the State of India’s Environment reports and then went on to study issues related to forest management. She worked hard at analysing and studying the relationship between environment and development and at creating public consciousness about the need for sustainable development.
Her research interests are ranges from global democracy, with a special focus on climate
change, to the need for local democracy, within which she has worked both on forest-related resource management and water-related issues.
She got involved with global environmental issues and also co-authored the publication Global Warming in an Unequal World: A case of environmental colonialism. She also has worked on a number of articles and papers on issues related to flexibility mechanisms and the need for equity and entitlements in climate negotiations. She co-edited the publication Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations and Dying Wisdom: Rise, fall and potential of India's water harvesting systems, and Making Water Everybody's Business: the practice and policy of water harvesting, which looks at the emerging ecological globalisation framework and puts forward an agenda for the South on global negotiations. She has also worked on a number of articles on the policy interventions needed for eco-regeneration of India’s rural environment and poverty reduction.
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 Akpezi
Ogbuigwe is the head of Environmental Education and Training,
Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, UNEP. Her
research interests include the Mainstreaming of Environment
and Sustainability, Research and Learning in Educational
Institutions and Africa’s Emancipation. She has vast
experience in the field of environmental education, research
and training.
Before joining UNEP, Ms. Ogbuigwe was a Professor of Environmental
Law at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology,
Rivers State, Nigeria, and had been involved in the promotion
of both formal and informal Environmental Education programmes
in Nigeria. She has several publications to her credit such
as Environmental Imperatives for the African Region
in the Next Decade, ACFED Port Harcourt (1998), Empowerment
through Legal Education: Human Rights, Democracy and Development
in Nigeria. |
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 Dr Rajendra.K. Pachauri is the Chairman of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and Director-General of TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute). TERI does original work and provides professional support in the areas of energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions and corporate organizations worldwide. He has been active in several international forums dealing with the subject of climate change and its policy dimensions.
Dr. Pachauri has been awarded the Padma Bhushan which is one of India's highest civilian awards, on his immense contribution to the field of environment that recognizes distinguished service of a high order to the nation in any field. He has been a Visiting Professor, Resource Economics at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University; Senior Visiting Fellow, Resource Systems Institute and Visiting Research Fellow with The World Bank, Washington DC. He also joined the North Carolina State University where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Industrial Engineering and as well as in Economics. He also served as Assistant Professor and Visiting Faculty Member in the Department of Economics and Business.
He was appointed as the Member, Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Environment Agency, Government of Japan, for a period of 3 years. He was also appointed as a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. Dr. Pachauri has also authored 21 books and several papers and articles. |
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 Prof. Dr. h.c.Gunter
Pauli is the founder and Director of the Zero Emissions
Research Initiative of the United Nations University in
Tokyo, redesigning manufacturing processes into non-polluting
clusters of industries. He laid the basis for the design
of the first zero emissions industrial park in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, USA.
He is fluent in six languages and presently lives in Kamakura,
Japan. He has written eight books which have been published
in twelve languages. His first book was autobiography of Dr Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome. His last
book Breakthrough Ideas has been published in Japanese,
Korean, Spanish and English. |
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 Dr. Pigozzi is currently
Senior Vice President and Director,
AED Global Learning Group. Prior to this, she also worked for the development of both the UN system-wide Girls’ Education Initiative and UNICEF’s global Girls’ Education Programme. Her expertise ranges from early childhood interventions to junior secondary school and higher education, International education, education quality, planning and designing education programs, HIV and AIDS in education, assessment and includes both formal and non-formal approaches with extensive field experience in over 50 countries. She was born and raised in Botswana and educated in Botswana and Zimbabwe through secondary school. Dr. Pigozzi holds a Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in Education Administration and Adult Continuing Educationin the US. Her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees are from Miami University in Ohio. Dr. Pigozzi has been on the faculties of Indiana University and Michigan State University and has experience in the public and private (both profit and non-profit) education sectors. She works professionally in French. She serves on several boards, including the editorial board of the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. |
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 Dr. Puntenney is founder and Executive Director of Environmental & Human Systems Management, a private sector consulting firm that seeks to facilitate and support the further implementation of sustainability strategies through: learning processes; multi-stakeholder dialogue; research and influencing policy; provision and distribution of key information; training and capacity building. Delegate, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development; She currently serves as Co-Chair of the UN CSD Education Caucus. As a member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication she has contributed her expertise on policy and advocacy as well as management and evaluation of education for sustainable development strategies. Pam's work focuses on cross-cultural solutions, the impact of world systems on local communities, public choice and public responsibility, learning systems and sustainable solutions. She has served as a lecturer and research scientist with the University of Michigan; She has been a senior foreign policy advisor to various countries advising senior management on creating linkages, and presented keynote addresses to ministries, business, scientific, technologic and education conferences throughout the world on a variety of environmental and educational policy issues. Her publications include: Global Ecosystems: Creating Options Through Anthropological Perspectives |
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 Mark Richmond is a social scientist and educationist who, as an academic and as a UNESCO staff member, has been engaged with ‘education for development’ issues for over twenty-five years. He graduated from the University of Sheffield (UK) with an honours degree in Political Theory and Institutions and has a Master of Philosophy degree in comparative education from the University of Hull (UK). He has worked in a range of secondary, post-secondary and higher education positions in the UK and the USA, with particular interests in the policy/research interface relating to structured social inequalities and in education in developing countries, with special regard to policies of educational reform in Latin America and the Caribbean and educational responses to emergency, refugee and post-crisis situations, notably in sub-Saharan Africa.
On joining UNESCO in 1994, Mr Richmond worked on establishing post-crisis educational programmes in NW Somalia, refugee camps in Tanzania and post-genocide Rwanda before becoming head of UNESCO’s Programme of Education for Emergencies and Reconstruction (PEER) in Nairobi, Kenya, covering the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regions. Subsequently at UNESCO Headquarters, he was involved in supporting educational programmes in field operations in sub-Saharan Africa, Iraq and Kosovo; in 1999-2000, he served as Deputy Head of UNMIK’s Department of Education and Culture in Kosovo. Mr Richmond then worked on the reform of UNESCO’s Education Sector and on the follow-up to the World Education Forum on Education for All (Dakar, Senegal, 2000). During the period 2001-2006, he served as Senior Executive Officer in the Office of the Director-General of UNESCO in the capacity of English speechwriter and focal point for education. Mr Richmond is currently Director of the Division for the Coordination of UN Priorities in Education, responsible for Education for All (EFA), the UN Literacy Decade, the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, and education and HIV & AIDS; he is also the UNESCO Global Coordinator for HIV and AIDS. |
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 Mr. Rajendra Shende, Head , OzonAction Branch of UNEP in Paris, did his Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology. He has extensive senior corporate management experience with Tata Chemicals and SRF Ltd among others. He joined United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP) in Paris in 1992. He leads a global programme of OzonAction from 5 regional offices of the UNEP in Bangkok, Nairobi, Bahrain, Panama City and Paris and is policy and technical adviser to the more than 140 developing countries and countries with economies in transition and assisting these countries in implementing the Montreal Protocol that aims to protect the stratospheric ozone layer. He is expert on international technology transfer and technology cooperation to deploy the environment friendly technologies.
He initiated Energy Programme in Paris office of UNEP in late 1990s and has coordinated more than 20 CDM workshops in partnership with other agencies. He is the coordinating lead author for the special report on safe guarding the Ozone layer and Global climate system under IPCC that won the Nobel Peace prize in 2007.
Developing partnerships and leveraging the inter-linkages between multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer protection, climate change, hazardous waste management etc are his forte. Author of numerous published policy papers and chapters in the well known books on technology transfer, Mr. Shende has given various public lectures in leading institutes as well as for the Universities like MIT-USA, Swiss Technical Institute and Beijing University.
His programme successfully employed a strategy to demystifying the global environmental issues and conveying the action oriented messages to the children by using the creative instruments like cartoon and animated films .
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 Prof. Michael Scoullos is the founder and Chairman of the Mediterranean Information Office for the Environment, Culture & Sustainable Development (MIO - ECSDE) since 1992. He is also a professor in Department of Environmental and Marine Chemistry at the University of Athens; and the Chairman of the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-MED), which is one of the regional GWP platforms for promotion of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
He had been the President for eight years (since 1986) and now Honorary President of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB); a President of the Elliniki Etairia (The Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage) since 1983; and the President of the Greek National Committee of MAB/UNESCO. Since 1992, the European Parliament has designated him as a Member of the Management Board and the Executive Bureau of the European Environment Agency (EEA) the European Union.
He is the author of several books on Oceanography and the Environment and of more than 180 articles. His areas of interest include environmental chemistry and marine chemistry. |
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 Professor
Heila Lotz-Sisitka is the Murray and Roberts Chair of Environmental
Education at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. She holds a
Doctorate in Education from Stellenbosch University for
research into participatory educational materials development.
Her research interests include Curriculum Policy Research,
course accreditation within the NQF, Environmental Education
in Industry and Participatory Approaches to Adult Learning.
At present she co-ordinates the Masters and PhD programmes
in Environmental Education.
She is playing an active role in National Policy Development
and recently co-ordinated the research component of the
South African Department of Education's National Environmental
Education Programme. She is also actively involved in development
of regional strategies and policy for the United Nations
Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in southern
Africa.
She is the editor of the Southern African Journal of Environmental
Education and serves on the Council of the Environmental
Education Association of Southern Africa |
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Ph.D. student at the Development Studies Institute of the
London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds
Master of International Affairs degree in Energy and Environmental
Policy Studies from Columbia University's School of International
and Public Affairs in New York. He was the first young person
to be awarded with the ‘United Nations World Youth
Award' for the implementation of the 'World Program of Action
for Youth' through his organization the Consortium of Young
Scientists for Sustainable Development with the support
of the Speaker of the Indian Parliament. He was the first
Youth Representative from India to be recognized and appointed
by the Prime Minister to represent his country as part of
the government's delegation to the historic 'United Nations
Millennium Summit'. He addressed the 55th UN General Assembly
on behalf of the youth of India on 'Creating Sustainable
Livelihoods for Youth'. He is the Co-founder of the Global
Youth Action Network and International Advisor to the Youth
Employment Summit Campaign. |
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 Ms.
Erna Witoelar is the UN Special Ambassador for MDGs in the
Asia Pacific; an Earth Charter Commissioner; Chairperson
of the Indonesia Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI); and Executive
Director of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium. Previously,
she was Indonesian Minister of Human Settlements and Regional
Development, and the founder of the Partnership for Governance
Reform in Indonesia. She was President of Indonesian Consume
Foundation (YLKI), founder and first executive of the Indonesian
Forum for the Environment (WALHI) and President of Consumer
International. She graduated in chemical engineering in
1974 from Bandung Institute of Technology, and is a Master
of Science in Human Ecology from the University of Indonesia.
She is a recipient of the UNEP Global 500 Award during the
Rio Summit in 1992, the Earth Day International Award at
the UN in 1993, and the Indonesian Presidential Medal for
the Environment in 1995. |
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