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Participants 2014

Participants ICEL 2014

  • Mathew Akon

    Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA)

    Mathew Akon, Papua New Guinea, is Senior Project Officer of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA), a NGO established in 2001 dedicated to the conservation of the remote Torricelli Mountain Range, a 250,000...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Clive Crouch

    Clive Crouch received an Order of Australia Medal for his work in conservation and the environment with a focus on biodiversity conservation. Furthermore he was on the board for Greening Australia for 10...

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  • Patricia Davis

    Community Centred Conservation

    Patricia Davis is a Co-Founder and Director of Community Centred Conservation, C3, (www.c-3.org.uk) a non-profit organisation working on community-based protection of marine endangered species and habitats...

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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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  • 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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  • Zenón Pofidio Gomel Apaza

    Asociación Savia Andina Pukara (ASAP)

    Zenón Pofidio Gomel Apaza, Peru, comes from a family of quechua farmers of the Koriñahui community in the Pukara district. His 17 years of schooling with an agronomy degree from Universidad Nacional del...

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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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  • Rafael Guarga

    Rafael Guarga is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Uruguay and researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He graduated as...

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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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  • Mathilde Halla

    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,...

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  • Hans Herren

    Millennium Institute in Washington DC and Biovision Foundation

    Hans Herren’s main interests and experience are in agriculture, food systems, ecologically, socially and economically sustainable development and cover research, capacity development and management of...

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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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  • Michaela Hogenboom Kindle

    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...

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  • Mohammad Zahirul Islam

    Marinelife Alliance

    Mohammad Zahirul Islam holds a Master Degree in Zoology, and have Marine Conservation course from the Duke University Marine Lab (USA). Has extensive experience in sea turtle monitoring, conservation and...

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  • Elias Kindle

    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...

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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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  • Ahmet Lokurlu

    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...

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  • David Lowry

    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...

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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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  • Teresa Manera de Bianco

    Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca

    Teresa Manera’s research interests focus on quaternary mammal and bird footprints from Pehuen-Co site in Buenos Aires province (Argentina). For a project to protect this site she won the Rolex Award for...

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  • Mardi McBrien

    A forester gone rogue. Passionate about the environment, non-financial reporting leader & campaigner. Mardi McBrien joined the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) as Managing Director in 2011 following...

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  • Andrew McGonigle

    University of Sheffield

    I develop techniques for monitoring volcanoes, with a view to better understand how they work and in order to better protect humans from volcanic activity. I am also interested in the changes to the climate...

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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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  • Munqeth Mehyar

    coPeace/ Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)

    Munqeth Mehyar serves as President and Jordanian Director of EcoPeace/ Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli...

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  • Julien Meyer

    Julien Meyer is both bio acoustician and linguist. His research is focused on human language, including the relation between language and natural rural environments. He currently runs the”Icon-Eco-Speech”...

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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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  • Reuben Mtitu

    Kisangani Smith Group

    Reuben Mtitu is a renewable energy developer and an environmental activist. He worked as blacksmith and social entrepreneur and has training experience in the fields of electricity development (REA), water...

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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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  • 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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  • David Osborne

    Celsius Global Solutions

    David Osborne is an Engineer and the Technical Director of Celsius Global Solutions providing simple, sustainable solutions to provide clean water to communities in Africa and India. The Jompy water boiler...

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  • Balgis Osman Elasha

    African Development Bank

    Balgis Osman Elasha holds a PhD in Forestry Science, Master in Environmental Science and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) with honor in Forestry and Agricultural Science. She has more than 17 years’ experience...

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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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  • Igor Prokofyev

    Grassroot Alliance PERESVET, NGO

    Igor Prokofev is the Director of NGO Grassroots Alliance PERESVET. Since 2009 he is coordinator of the iBats Russia project. He is a founder of the Bat Conservation Alliance in Russia. The main goal of his...

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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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  • Mohammed Rezwan

    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...

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  • Uwe Riecken

    German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn

    Uwe Riecken is working as senior scientist and head of the Department for Habitat Protection and Landscape Ecology at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation in Bonn. He studied biology at the...

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  • Amitabha Sadangi

    IDE-India

    Amitabha Sadangi is working with IDE-India (international Development Enterprises) since 1991. IDEI is a non-profit organization which promotes small plot irrigation tools to increase the income of...

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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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  • Gordon Hisashi Sato

    Gordon Hisashi Sato, United States, is an American cell biologist who attains a lot recognition for his innovative research. For this work he was elected in 1984 to the United States National Academy of...

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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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  • 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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  • Qayum Ali Shah

    BACIP - Building and Construction Improvement Programme

    Qayum Ali Shah has a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Pakistan and a Master’s degree from Canada in Planning. He is currently heading the Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP),...

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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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  • Hammarskjoeld Simwinga

    Foundation for wildlife and Habitat Conservation

    My full names are Hammarskjold Simwinga, 45 years old, with four children. I live and work in the northern part of Zambia. For the past 20 years my work has been supporting rural communities with sustainable...

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  • Balbir Singh Seechewal

    Ek Onkar Charitable Trust Seechewal

    Balbir Singh Seechewal is a famous environmentalist, who was praised by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India, as the preacher of “A Noble Mission”. The international Time Magazine...

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  • Andreas Speich

    retired

    Speich is a Swiss citizen and studied chemistry and forestry at the ETH Zurich. From 1982 to 1985 he was advisor at the Kenya Forest Department such as head of the forest Estate City of Zurich. He globally...

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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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  • Samson Tsegaye

    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...

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  • Sander van der Leeuw

    School of Sustainability

    Sander van der Leeuw is an archaeologist and historian specializing in the study of innovation and long-term impacts of human activity on the landscape. He pioneered the complex adaptive systems approach to...

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  • Carlos Roberto Vasquez Almazan

    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...

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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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  • Timoteus Wahl

    Timoteus Wahl has worked in the fields of urban non-motorized transportation and open space purchase, preservation, creation and enhancement for over 38 years. He did additional work in landscape history...

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  • Paul Walker

    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...

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  • Canfa Wang

    Center of Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims

    Canfa Wang is a senior professor in Environmental Law at China university of Political Science and Law (CUPL) and famous environmental lawyer. He was elected as a people’s deputy at People’s Congress of...

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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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  • Angelika Zahrnt

    Friends of the Earth Germany

    Angelika Zahrnt is an economist and worked for the Federal State of Hessen, the City of Munich and Siemens. She has experience in political activities such as the feminist movement, local government...

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