Registered Participants

Alberto Alves Campos

Laureate

AQUASIS

My goal is to conserve endangered species and habitats, so that future generations may still have the natural ingredients and recipes to restore and maintain vital ecosystem services.

Ashililya Ashililya Nyanda

Laureate

Mwanza Rural Housing Programme

I am a Planner and strategist of Mwanza Rural Housing Program (NGO). I administrate and coordinate all technical programs of the organization., building capacities of farmers to produce burnt bricks fired...

Dipal Chandra Barua

Laureate

Bright Green Energy Foundation

I have devoted more than 35 years of his life, finding sustainable market based solutions for the social and economic problems faced by the rural people. I was the Founding Managing Director, Grameen Shakti...

Heide Bergmann

Laureate

Oekostation Freiburg

Heide Bergmann is an educator and gardener based in Freiburg where she co-founded the Oekostation Freiburg in 1986. The Oekostation is an educational center for sustainable development which is supported by...

Oleg Bodrov

Laureate

non-governmental non-profit environmental organization Green World

Chairperson, NGO Green World Oleg Bodrov is an engineer-physicist and environmentalist. After finishing his studies at the Leningrad Polytechnic University (1976) as an engineer-physicist he has been engaged...

Hildegard Breiner

Laureate

Hildegard Breiner is co-founder of the Austrian and Austrian-Swiss / Austrian-German networks against nuclear power. She is working for renewable energies, against fracking and in relation to nature...

Claus Biegert

Awarding Institution

Nuclear-Free Future Award

The Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation has started a new website to support the growing campaign to ban uranium mining: www.u-ban.org I hope we can...

Bernd Dallmann

Founder

Bernd Dallmann has been Managing Director of FWTM – Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe GmbH since 1987. As course leader and lecturer, he also founded the Freiburg economic development school in 1994 in...

Amalio de Marichalar

EEF Trustee

Amalio-Joaquín de Marichalar studied Law, Political Sciences and Sociology at Madrid’s Complutense University, then undertook a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Business. He has promoted a number of highly...

Annelie Dehmel

Laureate

Centro Ecológico Juvenil, Cajamarca, Uyuni K’asa

Annelie Dehmel has been involved in social, cultural and environmental projects in Bolivia for more than 30 years, a high valley in the Andes near Sucre was reforested with the help of Bolivian youth, and...

Purnima Devi Barman

Laureate

Aaranyak

Accredited with "Earth Hero" by Royal bank of Scotland, Purnima Devi Barman, also known as "Hargila baido"/Stork sister among communities and global conservation colleagues, is a wildlife biologist in...

Barbara Ehringhaus

Laureate

ProMONT-BLANC

Barbara Ehringhaus had been working with and in developing countries (Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, Madagascar and India). After that she served as consultant for environmental education and programmes for the...

Johann Georg Goldammer

Laureate

Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)

Johann Georg Goldammer is a forest and fire ecologist and founder of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Freiburg University. He is serving as coordinator...

Rainer Griesshammer

EEF Trustee

Rainer Grießhammer is a chemist, member of the management board of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Freiburg and director of the future heritage foundation (Stiftung Zukunftserbe). Leader of the research...

Eva Gross

Laureate

Awely, Wildlife and People

My work focusses on the interaction between people and threatened wildlife species, especially human-wildlife conflicts (HWC). When wildlife negatively impacts on people and vice versa, we speak about HWCs....

Goran Gugić

Laureate

GIZ/CIM, Institute for Nature Conservation in Albania

Managing Director, Lonjsko Polje Nature Park Public Institution Goran Gugić graduated from the Forestry Faculty of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. He moved to Croatia despite of the war, and headed...

Mathilde Halla

Laureate

SENECA - Seniorennetzwerk contra Atom

Mathilde Halla, was a schoolteacher for mentally challenged children. In 1973 she joined a small activist organization in Austria and started campaigning against the nuclear power plant Zwentendorf. In 1986,...

Marion Hammerl

Laureate

Lake Constance Foundation / Global Nature Fund

Economist by profession with working experience for more than 15 years in marketing and promotion in the industry sector. From 1985 to 1997 I was living and working in Spain and co-founder of various Spanish...

Peter Hennicke

Laureate

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

Membership: Co-Chair of the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC); Management Board of the European Environment Agency Advisory board "Environmental Technology" of the Federal Ministry for the...

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

Laureate

Cornelia Born 1944 in Zürich, Switzerland, worked as scientific illustrator for the University of Zürich for 25 years. Illustrations of Drosophila flies, wild forms and mutated until 1985. From 1969 on she...

Michaela Hogenboom Kindle

Laureate

Symbiose // CIPRA International

Michaela Hogenboom Kindle mission is to foster a connected and sustainable society in Liechtenstein and beyond. As co-founder of Symbiose she puts this mission in practice through consulting and community...

Katja Hugenschmidt

Laureate

Verein Ökostadt Basel

Our association „Ökostadt Basel“ (ecological city for Basel CH) works since 30 years in projects for more nature in the town, ecological politics and handling, ecological development. We are all...

Luciano Iribarren

Laureate

Grupo de Didáctica de las Ciencias, IFLYSIB, CONICET-UNLP

I am a biologist, science teacher and environmental education researcher. I focus my work in the Paraná river Delta. Our group is involved in the creation of the Delta Wetlands Observatory, an organization...

Sigrid Jannsen

EEF Trustee

Sigrid Jannsen’s activities in renewable energies started in 1974. Her scientific focus was on waste water treatment and in particular on the energetic use of biological wastes. After her retirement Sigrid...

Vijay Jardhari

Laureate

Beej Bachao Andolan (Save Seeds Movement)

I am small farmer hailing from the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India. In my youth, I was fortunate to be part of the Chipko Movement of the 1970s which inspired by the Gandhian philosophy,...

Kristin Kaschner

Laureate

Albert-Ludwigs-University & UWC Robert Bosch College

Kristin Kaschner is a marine biologist, member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group & Marine Mammal Task Force on Protected Areas. She is also a member of the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative and has...

Hilton Kelley

Laureate

Community In-power & Development Association Inc.

We seek to help undeserved disenfranchised communities located in the shadows of oil refineries and chemical plants to rid themselves of dangerous pollution in their air, water and land and to rebuild their...

Elias Kindle

Laureate

Symbiose Association, Dreiklang general partnership

It is up to us to change the path that society is going now. Elias is most interested in projects and practices that support everyone to flourish. Everyone doesn’t just include humans but all the beings on...

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson

Laureate

League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP)

I am a researcher, author, and activist supporting sustainable livestock keeping and land use by nomadic pastoralists.

Kumar Kumar Abhishek

Scientist

Fraunhofer ISE

Renewable Energy Expert with experience in Project Management, Planning and Coordination, Market Development, Future Technology, Training & Capacity Building and Research & Development. Professional...

Ahmet Lokurlu

Laureate

SOLITERM GROUP

I'm Researcher, Philosopher and Entrepreneur I have developed a System to introduce the solar energy direct into Cooling and founded a outsource Company from Research Centre Jülich and today we are worldwide...

Viviana López

Other

Freiburg University

Master student of the program MSc. Environmental Governance of the Freiburg University in Germany. My academic background in Process Engineering which I studied in my home country Colombia, allowed me to...

David Lowry

Laureate

Institute for Resource and Security Studies, USA

Dr David Lowry is an independent research consultant with specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear & environment policy. He is currently a London-based senior research fellow with Institute for Resource and...

Marie-Luise Marjan

Laureate

Marie-Luise Marjan Stiftung

For 25 years, the actress and founder Marie-Luise Marjan supports children world-wide. On her 70th birthday she founded the Marie-Luise Marjan foundation under the roof of the foundation Stiftung Hilfe mit...

Margret Mauricia Nambatya

Laureate

Haileybury Youth Trust

Ms Mauricia Nambatya is a civil engineer with a First Class Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Makerere University, Kampala and an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the...

Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria

Laureate

Nishant Bioenergy P Ltd

Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria, Mechanical Engineer from Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh, India (1987). He is also alumni of Global Social Benefiting Incubator -2007, and of...

Caleb Ofori Boateng

Laureate

Herp Conservation, Ghana

Caleb is the founder and director of Herp Conservation Ghana (Herp-Ghana); West Africa’s first amphibian and reptile conservation society. As, the director of Herp-Ghana, he leads various community level...

Adakole Okwa

Student

Centre for Renewable Energy, University of Freiburg, Germany.

I’m a highly motivated Mechanical Engineering graduate with a bias for Hybrid Renewable energy Systems for off-grid locations. I have over two years cognate experience in Hybrid Power Systems Operation and...

Clara Oldenburg

Student

Ecologic Institute

Marion Pancur

Awarding Institution

The Nuclear-Free Future Award

Marion Pancur, Germany, is managing director of the Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation (NFFA), a nonprofit organization based in Munich. Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award honors people worldwide who...

Bohdan Prots

Laureate

WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

He has 24 years of conservation management and research study experience in Ukraine and other countries of Europe and Asia, including protected area/Ramsar/UNESCO sites designation and management,...

Hanitra Rakotonirina

Laureate

Madagascar Conservation Program, Chances for Nature e.V.

Hanitra Rakotonirina is a biologist and she leads a conservation program working in Madagascar for the NGO Chances for Nature in Göttingen. Her duties include the management and development of conservation...

Denise Marçal Rambaldi

Laureate

Rio de Janeiro State Govern

Denise Rambaldi is a Forest Engineer, Lawyer and holds a Master of Environmental Science. She worked with the golden lion tamarin, and made an important contribution to the creation of the Golden Lion...

Mohammed Rezwan

Laureate

Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha

Mohammed Rezwan is Founding Executive Director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha and invented ‘floating education system’ to ensure access to year round and quality education in flood-prone regions. He...

Mozhgan Savabieasfahani

Laureate

Dr. Savabieasfahani was awarded the Rachel Carson prize in 2015. She has published extensively on harmful effects of war-created pollution in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq post 2003. She has...

Thomas Scheurer

Laureate

Swiss National Park Scientific Board

Thomas Scheurer is scientific co-ordinator of Swiss National Park research. Furthermore he is managing director of the Swiss Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies ICAS and of the International...

Bhaskar OBE Sen Gupta

Laureate

Water Academy, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS

Professor in Water Technology, Heriot-Watt University, EDINBURGH Campus. Sen Gupta specialises in community water supply to resource poor communities. His work on arsenic remediation from groundwater in the...

Shakura Bashir

Company

Junichi Shimizu

Awarding Institution

Junichi Shimizu is the director of commendation. Since 1992, the Asahi Glass Foundation established the Blue Planet Prize, an award presented to individuals or organizations worldwide in recognition of major...

Horacio Sirolli

Laureate

Wetlands Ecology Research Group - University of Buenos Aires

Horacio Sirolli is a biologist and scientific researcher. He is researching as part of his PhD thesis, on ecology and conservation of the forests of the Lower Delta of Paraná. He has directed University...

Ursula Sladek

Laureate

EWS

Ursula Sladek founded the citizen’s initiative “Parents for a nuclear-free future” after the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986. Together with others she founded the EWS after a turbulent decade of fighting...

Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien

EEF Trustee

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...

Noemi Stadler-Kaulich

Laureate

Mollesnejta - Center of Andean Agroforestry

In 2001 in Mollesnejta I began with agroforestry, because there had bee no other chance to get this place green with his stony, eroded and degraded soil. Within the years I noticed the benefits of...

Heisse Susanne

Laureate

Pura Vida Atitlan

Susanne Heisse lives as an environmental activist since almost 30 years amongst the Maya indigenous people of the Highlands of Guatemala. She coordinates the Pura Vida Atitlan Movement, which mainly works in...

Sven Egenter

Laureate

Klimafakten.de / Clean Energy Wire CLEW

As Editor-in-Chief/Executive Director, I head the team of the Clean Energy Wire, which covers the German Energy Transition out of Berlin, and award-winning klimafakten.de, which supports good climate science...

Simon Trace

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Simon Trace has over 30 years’ experience working on technology and international development, across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He was the CEO of Practical Action from 2005 to 2015 and was associated...

Samson Tsegaye

Laureate

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...

Philipp Turri

Company

I work in the Public Relations department for Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe); since 2012, I am also part of the Environmental Media Award (UmweltMedienpreis) team. With this award, we...

Carlos Roberto Vasquez Almazan

Laureate

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...

Susanne von der Heide

Laureate

HimalAsia Foundation

Susanne von der Heide is a cultural scientist and conservation specialist. She was curator for education at the Museum of East Asian Art at Cologne from 1988-1995. Thereafter, until 2001, she was working for...

Christine von Weizsäcker

Laureate

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...

Paul Walker

EEF Trustee

Green Cross International

Paul Walker, United States, is the International Director of the Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) Program for Green Cross International (GCI). The ESS Program is an international effort to...

Eicke R. Weber

EEF Trustee

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....

Indira Dayang Lacerna Widmann

Laureate

Katala Foundation Inc

Since 1998 Indira manages the Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Programme (PCCP) that aims to save the Philippine Cockatoo from extinction. Mainly worked on winning community and local governments to embrace...

Katja Wiese

Laureate

Naturefund e. V.

mate change in mind, Naturefund buys forests and replenishes them. Currently Naturefund is planting trees in the Tunari National Park in Bolivia and in three regions in Madagascar. At the same time more than...

Jutta Wiesenthal

Awarding Institution

The Nuclear-Free Future Award

Jutta Wiesenthal has worked in various countries organizing art, charity and sport events. She is project manager of the award ceremonies of the Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation. The Tschernobyl disaster...

Joachim Wünning

Laureate

WS Wärmeprozesstechnik GmbH

Joachim Wünning is an entrepreneur from the Stuttgart area. His company is developing, producing and selling low pollutant and highly efficient gas burners for heating high temperature industrial furnaces....