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Participants 2013

Participants ICEL 2013

  • Karl Ammann

    Born in Switzerland in 1948. Hotelmanager moved to Kenya some 30 years ago moved to photography and authorship of books in the 1970s and 1980s. Become more of an activist as kept documenting degradation of...

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  • Ikal Lilian Angelei

    Friends of Lake Turkana

    Angelei is a grassroots activist with an interest in Environmental justice, Resource Governance and Community Rights. She has a particular interest in Political Ecology, analysing the politics and human...

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  • Dipal Chandra Barua

    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...

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  • Heide Bergmann

    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...

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  • Andreas W. Bett

    Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE

    Andreas W. Bett is physicist. Since more than 25 years he works at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, ISE. He is deputy director of ISE and heading the division “Materials – Solar Cells 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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  • Hildegard Breiner

    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...

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  • Erika Cuellar

    Date of birth: 9th December 1971 Languages written/spoken: Spanish, English Higher education: 2011. DPhil. WildCRU, Zoology department, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. 1999. Conservation Biology M.Sc. (with...

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  • Vidya Sagar Devabhaktuni

    SKG SANGHA

    I am responsible for building about 145.000 biodigesters. This is the highest number by a single organization in the world. This is resulting in the emission reduction to a tune of more than one million...

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  • Tomas Diagne

    The African Chelonian Institute

    Tomas Diagne is an African freshwater turtle and tortoise expert who has been working to save threatened and endangered turtle species in Senegal for the past 28 years. He began rescuing endangered African...

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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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  • Mohamed El-Ashry

    UN Foundation on Energy and climate change

    - Senior Fellow, UN Foundation. - Former CEO & Chairman, Global Environment Facility (GEF) - Former Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Environment, World Bank. - Former Senior Vice President,...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Syeda Rizwana Hasan

    Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA)/Friends of the Earth

    Syeda Rizwana Hasan is an enrolled lawyer with the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In professional life, she is working for the cause of environment as the Chief Executive of a reputed national NGO named...

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  • Klaus Hasselmann

    Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

    * 25 Oct 1931, Hamburg, lived in England, 1934-1949, Ph.D., Physics, Göttingen, 1957, married, 3 child. 9 grandchild. Prof. at UCSD, MIT, Hamb., 1961-1975, Dir. MPI-Meteor.1975 - 1999 (retir.),...

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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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  • Winfried Hoffmann

    Applied Solar Expertise - ASE

    Winfried Hoffmann is working in the PV industry since 1979. He was CEO of the company ASE (Applied Solar Energy GmbH a JV between RWE and DASA) in 1994, and later RWE Solar GmbH, in the late 90s one of the...

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  • Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu

    Smallholders Foundation

    He is leading social entrepreneur and Executive Director of The Smallholders Foundation, a social development organization based in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria which he founded in 2003 at the age of 21. The...

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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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  • 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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  • Lenelis Kruse-Graumann

    Univ. of Heidelberg /Univ. in Hagen

    psychology diploma 1966 U.Heidelberg doctorate 1972, Habilitation 1976 1973/74 Research Associate City .of New York 1978-1985 Heisenberg Scholar (German Science Foundation) 1985-2007 Univ Professor...

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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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  • 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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  • Gene Elden Likens

    Ecologist, Gene E. Likens is best known for discovering with colleagues acid rain in North America, for co-founding the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, for founding the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. He...

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  • Claude Lorius

    In 1957 Dr. Lorius started to Antarctica for the International Geophysical Year. Ice cores drilled during 22 field expeditions allowed to obtain both past temperatures and composition of the atmosphere over...

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  • Joachim Luther

    Fraunhofer ISE

    Joachim Luther has over thirty years of experience in physics and renewable energies. His main focus areas are: solar electricity generation, solar and energy efficient buildings and sustainable energy...

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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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  • Marilyn Mehlmann

    Global Action Plan (GAP) International

    I work with GAP International, a network of member organizations in 25+ countries empowering people to live and work increasingly sustainably. The Rachel Carson Prize 2011 was awarded “…for long-term efforts...

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  • Judith Molnár

    Judith Molnár is a physicist, eco-manager, quality/environmental/health and safety lead auditor, Eco Business project manager and executive director of Certop. She is mother of two wonderful children. She is...

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  • Tri Mumpuni

    IBEKA

    Tri Mumpuni has been campaigning for decades to replace diesel power plant with micro hydro plant to develop rural economic growth in Indonesia. Successfully installed more than 70 Hydro Plants in Indonesia,...

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  • Maggie Muurmans

    Griffith Centre for Coastal Management

    Maggie Muurmans works in the field of sea turtle conservation and other environmental areas. Her work was awarded by the Future for Nature award in 2009 (given to her by David Attenborough) and the Woman of...

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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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  • 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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  • Jeunesse Park

    Jeunesse Park

    Jeunesse Park is an ecovisionary working towards healthy people on a healthy planet. She founded Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) and their 6 programmes that change lives and landscapes. She started and ran Al...

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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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  • Ram Chandra Prasad

    Madhya Pradesh Gramin Vikas Mandal

    Mr Prasad has more than 30 years of experience in development sector with significant experience in the field of non-conventional energy sources. He introduced the concept of solar Light in the market in...

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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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  • Henry Red Cloud

    Lakota Solar Enterprises

    Henry Red Cloud is a 21st century Lakota warrior, bringing green economic development to Native American communities. In 2006 Henry founded Lakota Solar Enterprises, which employs Lakota crew to assemble and...

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  • William Rees

    William Rees, ecological economist, is Professor Emeritus and former director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in Vancouver, Canada. The originator of...

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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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  • Jamal Mohamed Safi

    Environmental Protection and Research Institute, EPRI

    University Professor and Chairman of EPRI, Gaza, Jamal Safi is Professor at Al-Azhar University-Gaza and Founder Chairman of the Environmental Protection & Research Institute, Gaza, since 1989. He has 25...

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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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  • 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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  • 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...

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  • Casson Trenor

    Casson Trenor is the Founder of Tataki Sushi, the world's first sustainable sushi restaurants, as well as the author of Sustainable Sushi, a Guide to Saving the Oceans One Bite at a Time (2009). He...

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  • Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser

    European Environment Foundation

    Maritta Koch-Weser has a distinguished career spanning more than three decades in international development, as anthropologist and environmentalist. She has extensive field experience in Latin America, South...

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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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  • Alyn Ware

    Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

    Alyn Ware is a peace educator and nuclear disarmament policy analyst from New Zealand. He is the Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. He also serves as the...

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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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