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Participants 2012

Participants ICEL 2012

  • Nnimmo Bassey

    Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)

    Nnimmo Bassey is director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Coordinator of Oilwatch International. He was chair of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012) and...

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  • Oleg Bodrov

    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...

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  • Birgit Braun

    Aktionsgemeinschaft Artenschutz (AGA) e.V.

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  • Wolfgang E. Burhenne

    Inter-Parliamentary Working Centre

    Wolfgang E. Burhenne undertakes, in addition to his professional activities, honorary functions including Executive Governor of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) and Deputy Chair of the...

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  • Helen Caldicott

    PSR/Foundation for Nuclear Free Planet

    Caldicott currently divides her time between Australia and the US where she lectures widely. In 1978 she founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility which was awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, she...

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  • Franz Daschner

    Viamedica Foundation

    Franz Daschner was the first physician who received the German Environmental Award (Deutscher Umweltpreis) for his work. With the prize money, he founded the Foundation Viamedica. The main focus of the...

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  • Rolf Disch

    Rolf Disch founded his own architectural company, Rolf Disch Solar Architecture , in Freiburg in 1969. Disch was responsible for designing and developing the unique rotating solar house in Freiburg,...

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  • Raoul du Toit

    Lowveld Rhino Trust Zimbabwe/International Rhino Foundation

    Mr. du Toit has worked on rhino conservation for 25 years, within Zimbabwe as well as at a regional and continental level s (through IUCN’s African Rhino Specialist Group, the World Wide Fund for Nature, the...

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  • Barbara Ehringhaus

    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...

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  • Barbara Galletti Vernazzani

    Centro de Conservacion Cetacea

    Barbara Galletti Vernazzani is a Chilean Civil Hydraulic Engineering. Starting in marine conservation, she was able to overcome challenges and achieve long lasting conservation goals. She has been awarded...

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  • Debesai Ghebrehiwet

    Africa Earth Keepers

    I am Debesai Ghebrehiwet renewable energy specialist, Environmental partition-er, laureate and innovator of high efficient improved stoves , Energy Efficient Gas stove and brick designs and this year i am...

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  • Paola Ghillani

    Paola Ghillani & Friends AG

    Paola Ghillani founded her own company, the Paola Ghillani & Friends Ltd., active in corporate strategies and management consulting, and in promoting and implementing sustainable development and ethic in...

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  • Adolf Goetzberger

    FhG ISE

    Adolf Goetzberger founded the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg in 1981, the largest solar energy institute in Europe. He is retired but still active in solar energy. He was...

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  • Monika Griefahn

    Right Livelihood Award Foundation / European Environment Foundation

    Monika Griefahn is a founding member of Greenpeace Germany and was Co-CEO (1980-1983). From 1984-1990 she worked on the board of Greenpeace Internat. From 1990-1998 she was Minister of the Environment in the...

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  • Rainer Griesshammer

    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...

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  • Edeltraud Guenther

    TU Dresden

    Edeltraud Guenther received her doctorate in Environmental Accounting from the Universitaet Augsburg and holds the Chair in Environmental Management and Accounting at the Technische Universitaet Dresden...

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  • Goran Gugić

    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...

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  • Sameer Hajee

    Nuru Energy East Africa

    Sameer Hajee is co-founder and CEO of Nuru Energy East Africa, who provides clean, sustainable, off-grid lighting and recharging solutions to base of pyramid households at the Subsistence level, i.e. those...

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  • Edeltraud Haselsteiner

    project "UTE" - Urban Time and Energy

    Since 2000: self-employed interdisciplinary work in research, architecture and urban planning; initiating and managing research projects for the Austrian Program on Technologies for Sustainable Development;...

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  • Jonathan Hines

    Jonathan is the director of Architype, one of the UK's leading sustainable architects. Architype, a uniquely radical company, is responsible for developing innovative approaches to social and environmental...

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  • Heike Hoedt

    Solare Bruecke / Simply Solar

    Since 1996 Heike Hoedt has been associated with Solare Bruecke e.V., a German non-profit organisation, which is developing and promoting technical know-how on Scheffler Reflectors and other solar thermal...

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  • Ashok Khosla

    Chairman of Development Alternatives, a social enterprise based in India, which designs and markets affordable technologies for the creation of jobs, basic needs products and a better environment. After...

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  • Karel Kolomaznik

    Tomas Bata University Zlín

    The highly productive career of Karel Kolomaznik, from the Czech Republic, has been based on the conviction that there is no such thing as waste.Professor Kolomaznik is now researching ways to turn used...

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  • Inza Kone

    Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire

    I am a Primate Conservation Biologist. I ama Lecturer at the Faculty of Biosciences of the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Director of Research and Development at the Centre...

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  • Nadezda Kutepova

    Ngo The Planet of Hopes

    Human rights defender, sociologist , avocat of nuclear victims of secret nuclear accident in 1957 ( mayak Russia) and dumping of nuclear waste into Techa river. Won more than 70 cases, inc 2 in EHRC. Accused...

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  • Martin Landrø

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

    Martin Landrø is Professor of Applied Geophysics at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research interests concern...

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  • Alexandra Lavrillier

    French-Evenk Association Sekalan

    Alexandra Lavrillier is Associate professor at the European Center for the Arctic – OVSQ / University of Versailles (France). Her research interests cover comparative studies of nomadism, hunting, reindeer...

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  • Gatze Lettinga

    Wageningen Univ., Netherlands

    Education: Chemical Engineering, Technical University (TU), Delft 1954-1962, PhD-work: 1964- 1970, TU and Inter- Reactor Institute. Employment: 1964 - 1970: TU Delft and Inter University Reactor Institute...

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  • Aldo Lo Curto

    Physician Aldo Lo Curto has worked as a doctor in almost 40 countries in the past 20 years, putting himself at the service of humanity. This "volunteer travelling doctor" spends half the year in his medical...

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  • Natalia Manzurova

    Natalia Manzurova completed an apprenticeship as specialist for radiobiology. She worked 10 years as scientific assistant at the Scientific Experimental and Research Center ONIS, where scientists studied the...

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  • Matteo Mauro

    University Muenster

    Matteo Mauro obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2009 with a study on synthesis, photophysics and theoretical characterization of novel metal complexes based on rhenium and iridium, and their application in...

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  • Tilo Nadler

    Tilo Nadler holds a diploma in engineering and biology. Since 1971 he has been a scientifically assistant at a research institute for climate technology (Germany) and a member of several expeditions to...

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  • René Ngongo Mateso

    OCEAN

    René NGONGO is President of the Environment and Natural Resources Commission of the Economic and Social Council of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is co-founder and President of the Congolese...

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  • Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria

    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...

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  • Placide Dieudonné Nzisabira

    AJDR Cooperative

    Placide Dieudonné Nzisabira is president of AJDR Cooperative. The Cooperative helps street kids and unemployed youth earn an income by making fuel-efficient charcoal-burning stoves from scrap metal, heat...

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  • Regula Ochsner

    ADES Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire Suisse-Madagascar

    Regula Ochsner is the founder and CEO of the NGO ADES (Association pour le Développement de l’Energie Solaire, Suisse-Madagascar). The objective of this programme is to provide solar cookers (Box and...

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  • Antonio Oposa

    His work is noted for the cases he filed to protect Life-Sources. In the early ‘90s, representing children and future generations of Filipinos, he filed a case to cancel all logging concessions in the...

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  • Juan Pablo Orrego Silva

    Ecosistemas

    Chilean Ecologist. President of the Corporation Ecosistemas, based in Santiago, Chile, and International Coordinator of the Patagonia Without Dams Campaign. Master in Environmental Studies (Ecology and...

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  • Daniel Pauly

    Fisheries Centre University of British Columbia

    After many years at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, in Manila, Daniel Pauly became in 1994 a Professor at the Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia in...

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  • Catlin Powers

    One Earth Designs

    Catlin Powers is the co-founder and COO of One Earth Designs (OED), a company harnessing solar-thermal power to create a brighter future for the three billion people who currently lack access to clean...

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  • Suryo Wardhoyo Prawiroatmodjo

    Prawiroatmodjo, veterinarian, joined the Green Indonesia Foundation in 1980’s to help them spread environmental education, and initiated the establishment of Pusat Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup (PPLH), an...

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  • Denise Marçal Rambaldi

    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...

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  • Eckard Rehbinder

    Since the beginning of the 1970s specialisation on environmental law; from 1987 to 2000 member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors (from 1996 to 2000 chairman); national and international...

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  • Martha “Pati” Isabel Ruiz Corzo

    Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda IAP

    A recognized leader in Mexico’s civil conservation movement, Martha Isabel (Pati) Ruiz Corzo is known as one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve where she served...

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  • Wolfgang Scheffler

    Solare Bruecke e.V.

    I was born in Austria in 1956, but spent most of my life in Germany. In 1983 I finished my masters degree in physics at the University of Cologne. At that time, I already had started the development of the...

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  • Thomas Scheurer

    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...

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  • Hans-Werner Schock

    Hans-Werner Schock worked on the development of thin-film solar cells at the University of Stuttgart since the early 1970s. A series of R&D projects under his guidance resulted in several production lines...

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  • Andreas Schroeter

    Sunlabob Renewable Energy Ltd

    Andy Schroeter, co-founder and director of Sunlabob Renewable Energy Co. Ltd., is an experienced social entrepreneur focused on providing commercially-viable renewable energy and clean water solutions in...

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  • David Schweidenback

    Pedals for Progress

    David Schweidenback is founder of “Pedals for Progress” which collects used bicycles and sewing machines in the greater New York City Philadelphia area and uses that material as economic development aid in...

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  • Bhaskar OBE Sen Gupta

    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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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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  • 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...

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  • 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....

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