Participants 2015

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...

Balbir Singh Seechewal

Ek Onkar Charitable Trust Seechewal

Balbir Singh Seechewal is a famous environmentalist, who was praised by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India, as the preacher of “A Noble Mission”. The international Time Magazine...

Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien

European Environment Foundation

Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien has more than 20 years’ international experience in the areas of energy and climate change at the interfaces between policy and finance, and public and private sectors, particularly...

Andreas Speich

retired

Speich is a Swiss citizen and studied chemistry and forestry at the ETH Zurich. From 1982 to 1985 he was advisor at the Kenya Forest Department such as head of the forest Estate City of Zurich. He globally...

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...

Jean Thomas

Tenkile Conservation Alliance

Jean Thomas was a high school science teacher when she and husband Jim moved to a remote Papua New Guinea mountain in 2003 to devote their lives and limited resources to protecting a critically endangered...

Samson Tsegaye

Solar Energy Foundation

Samson Tsegaye is working as leader for different organizations. He holds diplomas in military engineering & administration (Holeta Genet Military Academy), project management in renewable energy industry...

Carlos Roberto Vasquez Almazan

FUNDAECO, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS GUATEMALA

Carlos Roberto Vasquez Almazan is a Biologist and Conservationist with emphasis in Critical Endangered Biodiversity sites in Guatemala. He carries out surveys and established a network of nature reserves...

Christine von Weizsäcker

Ecoropa

Christine von Weizsäcker is a biologist, researcher and activist, working on technology assessment for civil society since the seventies. Participant in the Rio Process on Sustainable Development since 1992...

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;...

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