Speakers

Mr Omar Abdullah Hon’ble Former Minister of Minister ofState for External Affairs, Government of India Prof. Yoginder K Alagh Former Minister of Power, and Science and Technology, Government of India Mr Ramesh Bais Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Government of India Mr Proshanto Banerjee Chairman & Managing Director, Gas Authority of India Limited, New Delhi Dr Stephen Bass Chief Environment Advisor, DFID Dr Roger Baud Head, Alliance for Global Sustainability Dr Suman K Bery Director-General, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi Ms Preety Bhandari Director, Policy Analysis Division, TERI, New Delhi Mr Børge Brende Hon’ble Minister of Environment, Government of Norway, Oslo, and Chairman, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, New York Mr Clive Butler Corporate Development Director, Unilever, U K Nobel Laureate Prof. Paul Crutzen Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany Dr Vibha Dhawan Director, Bioresources and Biotechnology Division, TERI, New Delhi Ms Sheila Dikshit Hon'ble Chief Minister, Government of Delhi Mr Warren Evans The World Bank Ambassador Walter Fust Director-General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland Mr Pieter van Geel State Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and Directorate General for Environmental Protection, Government of the Netherlands Mr Gourisankar Ghosh Executive Director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Switzerland Dr Prodipto Ghosh Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India Mr Pekka Haavisto Former Minister for Environment and Development Cooperation, Finland Dr Peter Hennicke President, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy Prof. Leen Hordijk Director, IIASA Mr Paul Iredale Journalist, Reuters Foundation, Kent, UK Mr Ashok Jaitly Distinguished Fellow, TERI, New Delhi Prof. Gilberto M Jannuzzi Founding Editor, Energy Electronic Library Mr Ian Johnson Vice President & Head of Network Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (ESSD), The World Bank Group, Washington, DC Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Ms Aban Marker Kabraji Regional Director, IUCN Asia Ms Martha Wangari Karua Minister for Water Resources Management and Development Kenya Prof. Joanne Kauffman Principal Research Scientist, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr Jorgen Kjems Managing Director, Riso National Laboratory Management Dr Maritta R Von Bieberstein Koch-Weser President, Earth3000, Berlin, Germany Dr Hoesung Lee President, Council on Energy and Environment Korea, Korea Ms Julia Marton-Lefevre Executive Director, LEAD International Mr Apolonio Ruiz Ligero Vice Governor, Council of Europe Development Bank, Paris Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi Hon'ble Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa Dr Joe Madiath Executive Director, Gram Vikas, India Mr Anand Mahindra Vice chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra, Mumbai Dr Claude Martin Director General, WWF International, Switzerland Dr Charles McNeill Team Manager, Environment Programme Bureau for Development Agency, UNDP Mr Vikram Singh Mehta Chairman, Shell Group of Companies in India

Mr Elliot Morley Minister of Environment, DEFRA, U K Dr Chris Mottershead Distinguished Advisor, Environment, BP plc, U K Mr Rajat Nag Director-General, Mekong Department, ADB Sir Charles C Nicholson Group Senior Advisor, BP plc, U K Dr R K Pachauri Director-General, TERI, New Delhi and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva Dr Bindeshwar Pathak Founder, Sulabh International, New Delhi Dr Jan P Pronk Chair, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council & Special Envoy for the Secretary-General, United Nations to the WSSD Mr Subir Raha Chairman & Managing Director, Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd Dr Arcot Ramachandran Chairman, TERI, New Delhi Mr M S Ramachandran Chairman, Indian Oil Corpn Ltd Prof. V Ramanathan University of California, USA Ms Cornelia Richter Director-General, Planning and Development, GTZ Mr David Roberts Executive Vice President & MD, Eastern Hemisphere BG Group Nobel Laureate Prof. F Sherwood Rowland Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science, University of California, USA Ms Tiahoga Ruge Director General, Centre for Education and Training for Sustainable Development, Mexico Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development Professor of Health Policy and Management; Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Anan, USA Mr R V Shahi Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India, New Delhi Dr Karan Singh Hon’ble Member of Parliament, New Delhi Dr R B Singh Former Deputy Director General, Food and Agricultural Organisation, New Delhi Mr N K Singh Member, Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi Mr Ajai Vikram Singh Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, New Delhi Mr Yashwant Sinha Minister for External Affairs, Government of India Mr Steven D Smith Venture Investor, Redding, CT Mr Paolo Soprano Director of Sustainable Development Policies, Ministry for the Environment, Rome, Italy Dr Leena Srivastava Executive Director, TERI, New Delhi Mr Erich Stather State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Germany Prof. Jeffrey I Steinfeld Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mr Björn Stigson President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland Mr S Sundar Distinguished Fellow, TERI, New Delhi, India Prof. Klaus Töpfer United Nations Under-Secretary-General; Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON); Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi Prof. Jean-Claude Van-Duysen Director, European Institute for Energy Research Ambassador Arne Walther Secretary-General, International Energy Forum, Riyadh Mr Hiroyuki Watanabe Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan Prof. Patrick Whitney Head of the Design, School Illinois Institute of Technology