Registered 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....

Nasser Al Khatib

Other

In the year 2011, Mr Al Khatib obtained his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering at the European University of Lefke in Cyprus. During the same period Nasser was trained in structural design at the University....

Michel André

Laureate

Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech (UPC)

My research involves the development of Acoustic Technologies for the control of noise pollution in the marine environment; the study of the biological and pathological impact of noise pollution on marine...

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...

Racheal Chagonja

Laureate

HakiRasilimali

Racheal Chagonja,28 Years,National Coordinator-HakiRasilimali HakiRasilimali is a platform of civil society Organisation working on strategic issues around the extractive sector in Tanzania. HakiRasilimali...

Bruno Chareyron

Laureate

CRIIRAD

Bruno CHAREYRON is a French Engineer in energetic and nuclear physics with a Master in Particle Physics (1987). Since 1993 he is the director of the CRIIRAD laboratory. (Commission for Independent Research...

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...

Pinar Demircan

Other

www.nukleersiz.org

After working 14 years in private sector in the field of human resources, quality&corporate audits, I started keeping an eye on environmental issues especially after Fukushima nuclear disaster happened.My...

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...

Dao Droste

Laureate

atelier-gallery Dao

Dao Droste Vietnam / Germany Freelance artist, creator of one-world-award statue B.A.U.M. Umweltprize “Change entails being open for emotional contact”. The ex-chemist (Ph.D.), Taoist and diverse artist...

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...

Engajamundo

Company

Engajamundo is a Brazilian youth‐led organizaton created by young people who believe in their responsibility as key part of the solution in order to face the greatest social and environmental challenges in...

Farwiza Farhan

Laureate

Forest, Nature and Environment Aceh Foundation

Farwiza Farhan is Acehnese conservationist working to protect the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia. Leuser Ecosystem is the last place on earth where rhino, elephant, tiger and orangutan still roam...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Auke Idzenga

Laureate

Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI)

Further Awards: Fr. Neri Satur Awards for Environmental Heroism 2011 BBC World Challenge 2010 RELX Environmental Challenge 2015 I am a Dutch and studied Marine Engineering. After two years on the seas in...

Shawn Iserhoff

Laureate

Cree Nation of Mistissini

Shawn Iserhoff is currently the Coordinator of Strategic Planning and Projects for the Cree School Board in Quebec, Canada. He is also an elected Councillor to the Cree Nation of Mistissini. In 2014,...

Abdullah Al Islam Jakob

Other

Ministry of Environment and Forests, Bangladesh

Mr. Abdullah Al Islam Jakob was born in 21st December, 1972 in Charfassion, of Bhola district.in Bangladesh. His father was Principal M.M. Nazrul Islam (Former Member of Parliament) and mother is Begum...

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...

Makala Jasper

Laureate

Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative

I am a dedicated and passionate conservationist with a deep understanding not only for the needs of forest biodiversity in Tanzania but the needs of people who live in and benefit from them. In 2004, I...

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...

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...

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...

Edward Loure

Laureate

Ujamaa Community Resource Team

Edward Loure Tanzania 2016 Recipient for Africa Tapping into the communal culture of northern Tanzania’s indigenous people, Edward Loure pioneered an approach that gives land titles to communities—instead of...

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...

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...

Tsetsegee Munkhbayar

Laureate

United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes

In 2000 while he was serving as a head of local civil council in Saikhan Ovoo sum of Middle Gobi province he got involved in bringing water back to one of few rivers flowing into the Gobi Desert – Ongi River...

René Ngongo Mateso

Laureate

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...

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...

Hotlin Ompusunggu

Laureate

Alam Sehat Lestari Foundation (ASRI)

Hotlin Ompusunggu Hotlin is a license dentist and the Co-Founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), a nongovernmental organization in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. ASRI integrates conservation and healthcare...

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...

George Outa

Laureate

University of Nairobi

I am currently pursuing an interest in how the international Environmental Law regime can part offer possibilities and solutions for sustainable environment management in the light of sovereignty and other...

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...

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...

Julia Riedel

Laureate

Wild Chimpanzee Foundation

I am a biologist with special interest in primatology and conservation. Professor Christophe Boesch at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is my P.h.D. supervisor and I am working at the...

Bunker Roy

Laureate

THE BAREFOOT COLLEGE

Training illiterate rural women-called Solar Mamas- from non electrified villages all over the world to be confident and competent solar engineers in 6 months in the Barefoot College in India. They go back...

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...

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...

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...

Khop Narayan Shrestha

Laureate

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...

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...

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...

Tristram Stuart

Laureate

Founder of the charity Feedback and Toast Ale Ltd, and an international award-winning author, speaker and campaigner on the environmental and social impacts of food production. I won the The Sophie Prize in...

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...

Bertram Verhaag

Laureate

DENKmal-Film Verhaag

Bertram Verhaag was born in Sosnowitz, Upper Silesia (now part of Poland). He studied sociology and economics. After three years of freelance work at the department of urban development in Munich, he decided...

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;...

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...

Sonam Wangchuk

Laureate

SECMOL/ HIAL

I am a mechanical engineer turned education reformer from Ladakh. I have mostly worked in the field of education reform for more than 27 years. I founded SECMOL which aims to bring reforms in the government...

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...

Sergiy Zibtsev

Laureate

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Specialization: forest fire science, policy and management; forest policy, forest radioecology; Work Experience: research in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (1993 - current), sustainable forest and fire...