Co-conveners
Session co-conveners
- Susana B. Adamo
Associate Research Scientist, Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, USA
Session: Human wellbeing and population trends
- Abdin Mohamed Ali Salih
Director, Division of Water Sciences and Secretary of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP), UNESCO
Session: Water security
- Salvatore Arico
Senior Programme Specialist for Biodiversity at UNESCO's Natural Sciences Sector
Session: Ecosystem services and biodiversity
- Xuemei Bai
IHDP Scientific Committee member, Professor in Urban Environment and Human Ecology, Australian National University
Session: Urban wellbeing
- Mercedes Bustamante
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
Session: Climate and other environmental changes
- Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Science
Session: Indigenous knowledge
- Sandra Diaz
Member of DIVERSITAS and Professor of Community and Ecosystems Ecology at Cordoba National University, Argentina
Session: Ecosystem services and biodiversity
- Anantha Duraiappah
Executive Director of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
Session: Green economy and rethinking social and economic models
- Jose Goldemberg
Physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, Brazil
Session: Energy
- Dave Griggs
Director, Monash Sustainability Institute & CEO ClimateWorks Australia. WCRP Joint Scientific Committee member
Session: Climate and other environmental changes
- Nordin Hasan
Emeritus Professor, Director, ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Malaysia
Session: Urban wellbeing
- Lori M. Hunter
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Core Faculty, Environmental Studies Program, USA
Session: Human wellbeing and population trends
- Ashok Khosla
Co-chair of the International Resource Panel, India
Session: Sustainable consumption and production
- Douglas Nakashima
Chief, Section for Small Islands and Indigenous Knowledge, UNESCO
Session: Indigenous knowledge
- Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Professor of Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Deputy Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Director of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA)
Session: Energy
- Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Co-chair of the Global Water System Project, Professor for Resources Management and Director of the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Session: Water security
- Karen O’Brien
Professor Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway
Session: Climate and other environmental changes
- Thomas Rosswall
Professor em., Chair, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Session: Food security
- Badaoui Rouhban
Director, Section for Disaster Reduction, UNESCO
Session: Disasters
- Jane E. Rovins
Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Programme
Session: Disasters
- Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
CEO, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa
Session: Food security
- Ivan Turok
Professor, Deputy Executive Director, EPD, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Session: Green economy and rethinking social and economic models
- Philip J. Vergragt
Professor Emeritus, TU Delft; Research Professor, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA; Fellow, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA; SCORAI
