International Conference, 1 – 3 November 2010, CEE, Ahmedabad, India
 
Speakers
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  Pushpa Bhargava
  Mr. Bhargava is the Founder Director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and former vice chairman of the National Knowledge Commission. He is the chairman of The Medically Aware and Responsible Citizens of Hyderabad, the Sambhavna Trust, Bhopal, and the Basic Research, Education and Development Society (BREAD), New Delhi. He is the recipient of over 100 national and international honours and awards including the Padma Bhushan and the Legion d'Honneur.
 
 
 
  Rick Clugston
  Rick Clugston is Project Coordinator for the Earth Charter Scholarship Project at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is also the Executive Director of Earth Charter US, and Earth Charter Coordinator for the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. From 1991-2008, Mr. Clugston was Executive Director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment in Washington D.C.  There he directed a variety of initiatives, including the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (1997-2007); the Sustainable Universities Assessment and Evaluation Project (1996-2005); Theological Education to Meet the Environmental Challenge (1992-1999); Earth Charter USA (1996-2006);and the Soul of Agriculture Project (1994-2001).
 
 
 
  Marianella Curi
  Marianella Curi is a social psychologist experienced in the design of policies for sustainable development and of environmental education for sustainable development. Since 2004 Curi has worked with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) at the position of policy specialist on the BOLFOR II Project, and has recently been appointed director of the BOLFOR II Project. Her previous roles include: vice-minister for natural resources and environment, undersecretary for the promotion of sustainable development in the government of Bolivia, and director of the largest non-governmental environmental organization in Bolivia – the Bolivian Environmental Defence League.
 
 
 
  Anil Gupta
  Prof. Anil K. Gupta, an IIM Ahmedabad faculty, is the Executive Vice Chairman of National Innovation Foundation set-up by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He also established the Society for Research & Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies & Institutions (SRISTI) in 1993 and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN) in 1997, two NGOs to support the Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products respectively. He has also been profiled by India Today as one of the top-50 Change Entrepreneurs in the country. Prof. Gupta has been lauded for his extraordinary work with various awards, the highlight being Padma Shri National Award, given by the Hon’ble President of India on the eve of Republic Day 26 January 2004 for distinguished achievements in the field of management education.
 
 
 
  Parvez Hasan
 

Dr. Parvez Hassan is the Senior Partner of Hassan & Hassan (Advocates) in Pakistan and also currently the President of the Pakistan Environmental Law Association. He has been actively involved in rule of law issues in Pakistan throughout his career. He led the nation-wide lawyers’ movement in 1983 against General Zia ul Haq. Later, in November 2007, he was brutalized by the police and arrested in a lawyers rally against General Pervez Musharraf.

He is also the founder of the Dr. Parvez Hassan Environmental Law Centre at the University Law College at Punjab University and the co-founder of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Environmental Law in Singapore.
 
 
 
  Ryokichi Hirono
  Dr. Ryokichi Hirono graduated in 1958 from the University of Chicago in Economics. He worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, and as a Professor at Seikei University, Tokyo. He is currently Professor Emeritus, Seikei University and Visiting Professor, GRIPS.  He also taught at universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and worked at senior management posts at the United Nations, UNDP and other international organizations.  He has served in Japan on several government advisory councils and board of trustees and directors of a number of research institutes, foundations and civil society organizations.
 
 
 
  Charles Hopkins
  Charles Hopkins is at York University in Toronto where he holds both a UNESCO Chair and a United Nations University Chair. The UNESCO Chair coordinates an international network of teacher education institutions working upon the reorientation of teacher education to address sustainable development. The UNU Chair focuses upon the role of ESD in community development. Mr Hopkins is an advisor to UNESCO and UNU regarding the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD). He played major roles in both the Rio and Johannesburg UN Summits on Sustainability.  He was an author of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21, the Rio Earth Summit Action Plan on Education, Public Awareness and training. Previously, Mr. Hopkins was a Superintendent with the Toronto Board of Education.
 
 
 
  Sudarshan Iyengar
 

Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar is the Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapith at Ahmedabad,. Prior to the present job since August 2005, Dr. Iyengar was Director of the Centre for Social Studies, Surat (2004-05) and Director of Gujarat Institute of Development Research (1999-2004). He has actively co-ordinated NGO initiatives in the rescue and relief operations of the Gujarat earthquake, January 2001. He was a member of advisory committee on earthquake rehabilitation to the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA). Dr. Iyengar has been a member of Environmental Economics Research Committee (EERC) of the World Bank supporting a national project on capacity building in environmental economics. He has also chaired a sub-committee on the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Watershed Development Programme of the Government of Gujarat. He is a Trustee of the Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad, a deemed university for education based on Gandhian Philosophy. He is a trustee in many voluntary organisations in Gujarat and in other states. He is also a visiting faculty in different universities and research and training institutions in Gujarat. He has co-authored six books and published about 40 research articles.
 
 
 
  Ashok Khosla
  Dr. Ashok Khosla is one of world's leading experts on the environment and sustainable development. He is the former director of the United Nations Environment Programme; awarded the 2002 Sasakawa Environment Prize - "the Nobel Prize of the environment world" - and has been named in the UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour. He holds a masters degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in experimental physics from Harvard. In 1976 he was appointed director of the UNEP, where he designed and launched Infoterra, the global environmental information exchange. He remained with the UNEP until 1982 when he left to found Development Alternatives, a Delhi-based Non-Governmental Organization devoted to promoting commercially viable, environmentally friendly technologies. He has served as an advisor to, among others, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Indian government.
 
 
 
  Alexander Likhotal
  Alexander Likhotal is President and CEO of Green Cross International. He has a PhD in Political Science in History from Moscow Institute of International Relations, where he also became a lecturer. Subsequently, he was appointed senior research fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR; in 1988 a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy, and was appointed Vice-Rector in the same year. Mr. Likhotal’s experiences in Political Science led him to become Head of the European security desk at the International Department of the Central Committee for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Head of the Consultants Group, and in 1991 Deputy Spokesperson and Advisor to President Gorbachev of the USSR. Even after the President’s resignation, Likhotal remains his advisor and spokesperson and works as the International and Media Director at the Gorbachev Foundation.
 
 
 
  Julia Lefevre
  Julia Marton-Lefèvre is the Director General of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), the world’s largest conservation/environment membership organization which brings together states, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, scientists and experts in a unique worldwide partnership. Prior to this, Julia was the Rector of the University for Peace (UPEACE), a graduate-level international university. Earlier offices held by Julia include Executive Director of LEAD International, a programme established by The Rockefeller Foundation and Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU).