Keynote address 1

Session Chair - Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Additional Secretary to the Prime Minister of India; Prof. F Sherwood Rowland, Nobel laureate for Chemistry in 1995; Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA delivered the Keynote address.

Prof. F Sherwood Rowland
Nobel laureate for Chemistry in 1995; Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA

Plenary session 1: WSSD goals for water and sanitation: making it happen.

Left to right: Ms Radha Singh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, India; Ms Preety Bhandari, Director, Policy Analysis Division, TERI; Dr Kristalina Georgieva, Director, Environment Department & Chair, Environment Sector Board, The World Bank; Session Chair - Prof. Hans J A van Ginkel, Rector, United Nations University, Tokyo; Mr Christian Stoffaes, Executive Vice President, International Relations, Electricite de France, and Executive Director, the e7 Fund for Sustainable Energy Development; Dr Maritta R v Bieberstein Koch-Weser, President, Earth3000, Germany; Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, Founder, Sulabh Sanitation Movement, Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, India

Dr Kristalina Georgieva
Director, Environment Department & Chair, Environment Sector Board, The World Bank

"Peace on this planet is very critical for achieving sustainable development."

Dr Maritta R v Bieberstein Koch-Weser
President, Earth3000, Germany

"The way people count upstream is not the way people count downstream. Watershed management needs to happen, but is not happening because of political obstacles."

Keynote address 2

Left to right: Mr Ian Johnson, Vice-President, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, The World Bank, Washington, DC; Session Chair - Mr M S Ramachandran, Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation

Mr Ian Johnson
Vice-President, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, The World Bank, Washington, DC

"We cannot have economic growth, if we do not have agricultural growth …agricultural development must be linked with good natural resource management."

Dr Hoesung Lee, President, Council on Energy and Environment, Korea; Mr Jurgen Friedrich Hake, Head, Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation, KFA Research Centre, Germany; Mr Somnath Bhattacharjee, Director, Energy-Environment Technology Division, TERI; Prof. Shankar Acharya, Professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations; Mr Suman Bery, Director General, National Council for Applied Economic Research, India; Mr Robert Graham-Harrison, Minister - Development, British High Commission; Head, Department for International Development, India; Prof. Yoichi Kaya, Director General, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Japan; Dr Ligia Noronha, Senior Fellow, TERI

Mr Hau Sing Tse, Vice-President, Canadian International Development Agency, Quebec; Prof. Charles Perrings, Head of Department-Environment, University of York, UK; Prof. Charles D Kolstad, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Prof. Joanne Kauffman, Co-Executive Director, Alliance for Global Sustainability Principal Research Scientist, MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment, USA; Sir Charles C Nicholson, Group Senior Advisor, BP Amoco, UK; Mr Steven D Smith, Managing Director, GE Equity, USA; Dean, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan; Prof. Kimio Uno, Executive Supervisor, LEAD Japan Program;

Dr R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC, & Director-General, TERI; Mr S K Bhargava, Advisor, Eicher Group; Mr BjÖrn Stigson, President, The World Business Council for Sustainable Development; Mr K K Sinha, Director, Human Resources, National Thermal Power Corporation, Mr R K Narang, Distinguished Fellow, TERI

Reception and Dinner

Session Chair - Prof. Emil Salim, Chairman, National Economic Board, Government of Indonesia; Session Speaker - Mr Salman Khurshid, Member of Parliament and former Minister of External Affairs, India at the Dinner Session