Participants 2012

Khop Narayan Shrestha

MDI Nepal

Khop Narayan Shrestha is the Executive Director of MDI Nepal (Manahari Development Institute- Nepal). He is active in promoting responsible agroforestry systems in the degraded lands affected primarily...            

Lumin Kumar Shrestha

Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal

Overseas Fellow of the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank. Director of Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N) Coordinates in the development of proposals and in implementation of...            

Heinz Stockinger

Salzburg Platform Against Nuclear Hazards (PLAGE)

As a non-professional in the energy field, I came to play a key role in Austria’s “no” to nuclear power in the 1978 referendum on the country's first and ready-to-operate Zwentendorf NPP, and during the...            

Mostafa K. Tolba

He established his own school in microbiology at Cairo University's Faculty of Science. In addition to his academic career, he worked in the Egyptian civil service. After serving a brief stint as Minister of...            

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

European Environment Foundation

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker is Co-President of the Club of Rome and member of the International Resource Panel of UNEP on Sustainable Resource Use. He worked as a professor for inter-disciplinary biology;...            

Sir Bob Watson

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Govt

Watson’s career has evolved from research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: California Institute of Technology, to a Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, the Director...            

Eicke R. Weber

European Environment Foundation

Eicke R. Weber was Director of the Fraunhofer Institut for Solar Energy Systems ISE (till Dec. 2016). Since Jan. 2017 he serves as director of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore BEARS....