The Maurice Strong/IUCN Environmental Dialogue:
Confirmed Participants as of 30 June 2009
| First Name | Surname | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hussain | Aga Khan | Prince, Senior Advisor to the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Fund for the Environment and member of the Aga Khan Development Network Committee |
| Bruce | Alberts | Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine, former President, National Academy of Sciences, USA |
| Lucas | Assuncao | Coordinator Climate Change and BIOTRADE Initiative UNCTAD |
| Deva-Marie | Beck | CEO, The Nightingale Initiative for Global Health(NIGH) |
| Margot | Bennett-Mathieson | Global Ambassador, Kids Internet Safety Alliance |
| Paul | Berthoud | Former Head of UNEP Environment Fund and Administration (TBC) |
| Ton | Boon von Ochssee | Netherlands Ambassador to Kuwait, former IUCN Councillor |
| David | Boyer | Senior Director, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Fund for the Environment |
| Reto | Braun | Chairman, Earth Council, Geneva |
| John A. | Campion | Governor, Law Society of Upper Canada |
| Adrienne | Clarkson | Former Governor General of Canada and co-chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship |
| Suzan | Craig | Tahi, New Zealand |
| BirgittaBirgitta | DahlDahl | Former Minister for Energy and former Minister for Former Minister for Energy and former Minister for Environment, Sweden |
| Nitin | Desai | Distinguished Fellow of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and member of Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, India |
| Don | de Silva | Director, Changeways International |
| Hama Arba | Diallo | Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification |
| Paula | DiPerna | President, Chicago Climate Exchange International and Executive Vice President, Chicago Climate Exchange |
| Ahmed | Djoghlaf | Secretary General, UN Convention on Biological Diversity. |
| Felix | Dodds | Executive Director, Stakeholder Forum |
| Elizabeth | Dowdeswell | Former Executive Director, UNEP |
| Marco | Dunand | President and Group CEO, Mercuria Energy Trading |
| Sylvia | Earle | Oceanographer and former Chief Scientist, US NOAA. Former IUCN Councillor |
| Mohamed | El Ashry | Senior Fellow with the UN Foundation and former CEO and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility |
| Poul | Engberg-Pedersen | Director General, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - Norad |
| Lars-Göran | Engfeldt | Ambassador and former Chief Negotiator for global environment and sustainable development issues for the Swedish Ministry of Environment |
| Christina | Engfeldt | Head of the FAO office for the Nordic countries and former information director of FAO |
| José Maria | Figueres Olsen | Former President, Costa Rica |
| Daniel | Foa | Co-founder 51Give.com |
| John | Forgàch | Chairman of the Equator Group, New York |
| Irene | Freudenschuss-Reichl | Director-General for Development Cooperation, Austria |
| Walter | Fust | CEO, Global Humanitarian Forum and former Director-General, Swiss Development Cooperation |
| Branislav | Gosovic | Former Head of South Centre, Geneva |
| Camilla | Hall | CEO, Diane Fay |
| Mark | Halle | European Director of International Institute of Sustainable Development ( IISD) |
| Simon | Hobbs | Moderator of panel discussion, Presenter of 'The Leaders', CNBC Europe |
| Luc | Hoffmann | President of MAVA Foundation, Switzerland |
| Nay | Htun | Research Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook. And Former UN Assistant - Secretary General, UNDP, UNEP |
| Bill | Jackson | Deputy Director-General, IUCN |
| Yolanda | Kakabadse | President-elect, WWF International; Former Minister for Environment, Equador and former President of IUCN |
| Ashok | Khosla | IUCN President and Chair of Development Alternatives, India |
| Rehka | Khosla | Conscious Tourism |
| Wayne | Kines | President, World Media Institute and Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Director, Global Communications |
| Maritta | Koch-Weser | President, Earth3000 and former Director General, IUCN |
| Panchapakesan | Krishnamurthy | Former Head of Human Resources, University for Peace |
| Young Hoon | Kwaak | Architect and President, World Citizen Organisation |
| Catherine | Labouchère | President of the Liberal Political Party in Vaud, Switzerland |
| Jonathan | Lash | President, World Resources Institute |
| Louis | Leeburg | Board Treasurer, Institute of Noetic Sciences and Director, Light-Path Industries |
| Alexander | Likhotal | President, Green Cross International |
| Geoffrey | Lipman | Special advisor to the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization |
| Ruud | Lubbers | Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| Jim | MacNeill | Canadian consultant, environmentalist, and international public servant, including Secretary General of the Brundtland Commission 1984-1987 |
| Andrei | Marcu | President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association |
| Amalio | Marichalar | Count of Ripalda and President of Soria 21 Forum, Spain |
| Claude | Martin | Former Director-General, WWF International |
| Julia | Marton-Lefèvre | Director-General, IUCN |
| Ehsan | Masood | Writer and journalist. Consulting editor, Nature |
| Marc | Nerfin | Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet for the 1972 Stockholm Conference |
| Hui | Ng | Chinese social entrepreneur, co-founder of 51Give and 51Sim |
| Marie-Louise | Overvad | Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations in Geneve |
| Ameena | Payne | Former Director, University for Peace office in Geneva |
| Miguel | Pestana | Vice-President Global External Affairs, Unilever |
| John | Preston | CEO of Continuum Energy Technologies LLC and Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts of Technology |
| Barbara | Pyle | Media Strategist and Award winning Film Producer, Formerly Vice President of Environmental. Policy at TBS and CNN's Environmental Editor. Founder and former Chair of the Board of the Captain Planet Foundation. |
| Juan | Rada | Senior Vice President, Global Public Sector, Healthcare & Education Industries Business Unit, Oracle Corporation |
| John | Ralston Saul | Author of "The Collapse of Globalism" and co-chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship |
| Nicholas | Rhode Parker | Executive Chairman, Cleantech Group LLC |
| José | Romero | Head of Rio-Conventions Section Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland |
| Dave | Runnalls | President, IISD |
| Mohamed | Sahnoun | Founder and Chair, Advisory Council of the Caux Forum for Human Security and former UN/OAU Special Representative for the Great Lakes region of Africa |
| Johan | Schaar | Director Commission on Climate Change and Development, Sweden and IUCN Councillor |
| Ursula | Schäfer-Preuss | Vice President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank, Manilla, Philippines |
| Hilde | Schwab | President and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship |
| Klaus | Schwab | President and founder of the World Economic Forum |
| Mahendra | Shah | Senior Scientist and Coordinator of United Nations Relations at IIASA |
| Michelle | Slaney | Advisor, Ministry of Climate and Energy, Denmark |
| Juan | Somavia | Director-General of International Labour Organization (ILO) |
| Nicholas | Sonntag | Executive VP Corporate Development, Westport Innovations Inc and President, Westport Asia |
| Gus | Speth | Dean, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, former Administrator, UNDP |
| Daniel | Stauffacher | Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation and Special Advisor to the Swiss Government on Business and Environmental Technology Cooperation |
| Andrew | Steer | Director General, Policy and Research Department for International Development (DFID), UK |
| Maurice | Strong | Secretary General of 1972 Stockholm Conference and 1992 Rio Earth Summit |
| Hanne | Strong | Executive Director, Earth Restoration Corps |
| Kenneth | Strong | Principal, Cosmos International Inc |
| Pavan | Sukhdev | Managing Director and Head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets business in India and Team Leader of The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity study -TEEB |
| Yasushi | Takase | Minister, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in Geneva |
| Anada | Tiega | Secretary-General, Convention on Wetlands |
| Mustafa K. | Tolba | President, Arab Forum for Environment and Development and former Director-General, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) |
| Camilla | Toulmin | Director, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) |
| Dan | Tunstall | Director, International Cooperation and Senior Fellow, People and Ecosystems Program, World Resources Institute |
| Mirian | Vilela | Executive Director, Earth Charter International and Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development at University for Peace, Costa Rica |
| Jan-Olaf | Willums | Founder of Inspire, a sustainable investment program involved in solar and electric cars. Vice Chair of the Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development |
| Joe | Zammit-Lucia | Physician, entrepreneur, author and conceptual artist focused on environmental issues |
On 2 July, the meeting was joined by: Maria Ivanova, Director, Global Environmental Governance Project, and the group of emerging environmental leaders taking part in the Global Environmental Governance Forum