Scientific organizing committee

Lidia Brito
(Co-chair)
Director Science Policy and Capacity Building (Natural Sciences), UNESCO, France and Mozambique

Mark Stafford Smith
(Co-chair)
Science Director, Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO, Australia

Andrew Bennett
President of the Tropical Agricultural Association (UK). Chair of the Boards of Trustees of the Centre for International Forestry Research, Chair of SciDev.Net, UK

Raymond Bradley
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, USA

Sandra Diaz
DIVERSITAS, Argentina

Felix Dodds
Executive Director, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, UK

Rowan Douglas
CEO Global Analytics, Willis Re; Chairman, Willis Research Network, UK

Nadia El-Awady
Journalist, Board member of World Federation of Science Journalists, Egypt

Vesile Kulaçoğlu
Director of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade and Environment Division

Rik Leemans
Earth System Science Partnership, Netherlands

Adebayo Olukoshi
Professor of International Economic Relations and Director, African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Senegal

Johan Rockström
Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre,
Co-chair Future Earth Initiative, Sweden

Priya Shyamsundar
Program Director, South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, Nepal

Ilana Wainer / David Griggs
World Climate Research Programme,
Brazil / Australia

Oran Young
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, USA

Guoguang Zheng
Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Director, Chinese Meteorological Administration and member of the UN Secretary-General’s panel on Global Sustainability, China