Participants

Karen Aghababyan

Laureate

Karen Aghababyan has completed his PhD in Biology (specialization Zoology) in 2001. He was working in the Institute of Zoology of Armenian NAS until 2003, and is teaching in American University of Armenia....

Mathew Akon

Laureate

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...

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...

Andreas W. Bett

Laureate

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...

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...

Manuel Collares-Pereira

EEF Trustee

Manuel Collares Pereira is Full Professor at the University of Évora, Chair BES Renewable Energies, Director of IPES-Instituto Português de Energia Solar, founder and President of SUN AID and consultant of...

Ravi Corea

Laureate

Ravi Corea founded the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS) in 1995 to establish a new paradigm for sustainable conservation that balances ecosystem protection and economic development within his...

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...

Milkyas Debebe

Laureate

New Life Ethiopian Residents Charity

Milkyas Debebe is with a management back ground and has spent more than 7 years in energy & environment projects as a developer & implementer. He received certificate on contributing to clean indoor air...

Vidya Sagar Devabhaktuni

Laureate

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...

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...

Ulrich Eichelmann

Laureate

Riverwatch

I am a nature conservationist focussing on river protection. I am in the NGO business for more than 25 years now. My speciality is campaigning against hydropower plants. I worked 17 years for WWF, after that...

Duquesne Fednard

Laureate

D&E Green Enterprises

D&E Green Enterprises is an award winning social enterprise which seeks to break the cycle of energy poverty in Haiti by specialising in the manufacture and distribution of low-cost, high-efficiency energy...

Christian Felber

Company

Economy for the Common Good

Christian Felber – writer, university lecturer and independent dancer in Vienna. He is a co-founder of Attac Austria, the „Economy for the Common Good“ and the project „Bank for the Common Good“. Several...

Debesai Ghebrehiwet

Laureate

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...

Paola Ghillani

Laureate

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...

José F. González-Maya

Laureate

ProCAT Colombia

Biologist, MSc in biodiversity conservation and PhD in Sciences. I work in biodiversity conservation, mostly by using science as the basis for supporting planning and decision-making. I currently serve as...

Monika Griefahn

EEF Trustee

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...

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...

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...

Silvia Hämmerle

Laureate

Life-Giving Forest e.V.

Silvia Hämmerle is founder and chairwoman of the Life-Giving Forest eV. The association supports persons with disabilities in raising and sustainably utilizing a nearly-natural forest in the Philippines....

Peter W. Heller

EEF Trustee

Peter W. Heller worked as Deputy Mayor for Environmental Protection of the City of Freiburg, 1993-1997 he served as Chairman of he Executive Committee of ICLEI, Cities for Sustainability. Peter W. Heller is...

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...

Wolfgang Heuss

Awarding Institution

Nuclear-Free Future Award

Wolfgang Heuss, Munich-based retired translation teacher, has been active in the anti-nuclear movement since 2003. Previous civil society activities include the anti-Vietnam war movement during his years in...

Lunique Hilaire

Other

D&E Green Enterprises

Lunique Hilaire is our Fair Energy initiative manager. The fair energy initiative is an innovative “Demand Solutions Model” that the we launched in 2014 that seeks to create new access to energy services...

Heike Hoedt

Laureate

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...

Winfried Hoffmann

Laureate

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...

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...

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...

Mohammad Zahirul Islam

Laureate

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...

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...

Colbert Joachim

Other

D&E Green Enterprises

Colbert Joachim is our Innovation and Strategic Partnership Program Manager. In that capacity, he is responsible to identify, structure and implement strategic partnership, alliances and energy sustainable...

Poonam Joshi

Director London Office, Global Human Rights Fund

Poonam Joshi joined the Fund as the Director of London Office in December 2012, and established its initiative on Activism under Threat. Prior to joining the Fund, Poonam worked for the Sigrid Rausing Trust,...

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...

Eelco Keij

Other

Radboud University of Nijmegen

Eelco Keij is the founder of KeyLance Consultancy LLC in New York. He has over 10 years of experience working in the international development sector, among others as a consultant, fundraiser strategist,...

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...

Gerhard Knies (1937-2017)

Gerhard Knies was co-founder of Hamburg Climate Protection Foundation; Initiator and coordinator of the “Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation TREC; creation of the term DESERTEC; development of...

Inza Kone

Laureate

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...

Maarten Kooiman

Laureate

Tapazz

Tapazz: Need a car? rent it from your neighbours. Our software platform takes care of the verifications, booking flow and payments. 1 shared car can replace up to 12 other cars. This means less material...

Faustin Kopangoye

Company

Gabon Environnement

Founding President of the Network of Living Labs for Sustainable Development (RELLDDI) General Secretary NGO Environment Gabon since 2004 with an ecotourism site in the National Park PONGARA Member of...

Jeremy Leggett

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Jeremy Leggett, author of The Energy of Nations, is founder and chairman of Solarcentury, a VC-backed solar company, and founder and Chairman of SolarAid, an African solar lighting charity set up with 5% of...

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...

Antonio Luque

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Antonio Luque is Dr. Engineer in Telecommunication. Chair Professor of Electronic Technology at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in which he founded the Institute of Solar Energy, and led it for over 30...

Joachim Luther

Laureate

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...

Lena Mahr

Laureate

Siemens AG

Lena Mahr is a Master of Science in Carbon Management with a Business Administration background. She was working in different organizations as Oceana, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. LLC and Siemens in several...

Natalia Manzurova

Laureate

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...

Andrew McGonigle

Laureate

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...

Marilyn Mehlmann

Laureate

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...

Giovanna Melandri

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Giovanna Melandri is an Italian politician and member of the Italian Environmental Organization Legaambiente. She is also a member of the Democratic Left party and former Minister for Youth and Sports in...

Golden Misabiko

Laureate

Golden Misabiko is a university graduate in Economics and English. He has interests and expertise in Human Rights, Social Economic and Cultural Rights, Economy, Good governance, Peace building, Conflict...

Judith Molnár

Laureate

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...

Tri Mumpuni

Laureate

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,...

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...

Nikola Nikolov

Laureate

Faculty of forestry / Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC)

Nikola Nikolov, is a full Professor at the Faculty of Forestry in Skopje where he also founded the Regional Fire Monitoring Center (RFMC), which he is leading. He is an expert in the field of forest fire...

Regula Ochsner

Laureate

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...

Balgis Osman Elasha

Laureate

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...

Marcello Palazzi

European Environment Foundation

Marcello Palazzi, BSc, MSc, MBA is a serial innovator and entrepreneur working in and across business, philanthropy, civil society, government and international organizations. He has and continues to be...

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...

Regine Richter

Other

Urgewald

Regine Richter works with the environmental and human rights organisation urgewald on energy topics and public banks and guarantees. urgewald focuses on fighting concrete projects such as the Bulgarian...

Jamal Mohamed Safi

Laureate

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...

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...

Wolfgang Scheffler

Laureate

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...

Oliver Schultz-Wittmann

Laureate

First Solar

Oliver Schultz-Wittmann has started with photovoltaics in 1998. During his career, he worked on multiple aspects of crystalline silicon solar cell technology. At the Fraunhofer ISE institute, one of the...

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...

Hammarskjoeld Simwinga

Laureate

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...

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...

Andreas Speich

Laureate

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...

Heinz Stockinger

Laureate

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...

Zelealem Tefera Ashenafi

Laureate

Born Free Foundation

I am working for the Born Free Foundation which is a wildlife conservation charity, working to stop individual wild animal suffering and protect threatened specie as well as supporting the management of...

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...

Masood Ul Mulk

Laureate

Sarhad Rural Support Programme( SRSP)

Sarhad Rural Support Programme is a non profit organisations which taps the social energy in people by organising them and through them delivering services, and humanitarian aid. One part of its work is...

Dennis van Berkel

Urgenda Foundation

Dennis van Berkel is the Legal Counsel of the Urgenda Foundation, who’s main goal is a fast transition towards a sustainable society with a circular economy. Urgenda recently won a landmark lawsuit against...

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...

Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser

EEF Trustee

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...

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

EEF Trustee

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;...

Michael Wadleigh

Other

Homo Sapiens Foundation

Michael Wadleigh made more than a hundred films and won an academy award (an Oscar) for the landmark documentary on Woodstock, the apogee of the counterculture movement which launched sustainability into the...

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...

Alyn Ware

Laureate

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...

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....

Keith Wheaton-Green

Laureate

South Somerset District Council

Since 1999 I have been an excitement organiser in my role with South Somerset District Council and in my independent and voluntary work. I have been a key driver in the formation and development of the South...

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....

Tjan Zaotschnaja

Awarding Institution

The Nuclear-Free Future Award

Tjan Zaotschnaja was born in Kamtschatka. 1980 shortly before the Olympic Games in Moscow she was expelled from the USSR due to her engagement with the Human Right Movement. Since 1992 she is working as...