ENB @ WSSD: Who's who

Below are some of the names and faces of key players behind the making of WSSD.
This list is by no means exhaustive, nor complete - please return to this page regularly, as more people will be added.

Jump to: The Bureau - Key figures from the UN - Delegates - NGOs and other stakeholders

WSSD BUREAU





Vice-Chair Ihab Gamaleldin, Egypt	Vice-Chair Jan Kára, Czech Republic


Vice-Chair Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Brazil	Vice-Chair Richard Ballhorn, Canada


Vice-Chair Diane Quarless, Jamaica	Vice-Chair Lars-Göran Engfeldt, Sweden

The Bureau (left to right): Richard Ballhorn, Canada; Ositadinma Anaedu, Nigeria; Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Brazil; Emil Salim,
Indonesia; Diane Marie Quarless, Jamaica; Lars-Göran Engfeldt, Sweden; Kiyo Akasaka, Japan; Ahmed Ihab Gamaleldin, Egypt;
Ex-officio member Chris Badenhorst, South Africa; and Jan Kara, Czech Republic. Not pictured: Alexandru Niculescu, Romania.

KEY FIGURES FROM THE UN


Nitin Desai, Secretary-General for the WSSD	Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director


Jan Pronk, Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the WSSD	Andrey Vasilyev, Senior Officer, DESA


Joanne DiSano, Director, Division for Sustainable Development	Adnan Amin, Director, UNEP New York Office



Alvaro Umaña, Leader, Environmentally Sustainable Development Group, UNDP	Ian Johnson, Vice President and Network Head, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, World Bank


Mohamed El Ashry, CEO, GEF	Mustafa Tolba, Former Executive Director of UNEP

Maurice Strong

DELEGATES


Vali Moosa, South African Environment Minister


Crispian Oliver, South Africa	Xolisa Mabhongo, South Africa


David van Hoogstraten, United States	Jonathan Margolis, United States


Vicente Vallenilla, Venezuela, G-77/China	Luis Niño, Venezuela, G-77/China


Milos Alcalay, Venezuela, Chairman of G-77	Beat Nobs, Switzerland


Juan Luis Muñoz Laborde, Spain, for the EU	Ramon Oyarzun, Spain, for the EU


The Indonesian delegation at PrepCom I with PrepCom Chair Elim Salim in the center, Indonesia will host the Fourth session of the PrepCom

Kjetil Paulsen, Norway	Mr. Ukita, Japan


Yvan Jobin, Canada	Matthew Levin, Canada


Tibor Faragó, Hungary	Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa, speaks for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)


Khalid Abuleif, Saudi Arabia	Everton Vargas, Brazil


Erwin Ortiz Gandarillas, Bolivia	Kerry Smith, Australia


Bedrich Moldan, Czech Republic	Nicholas Kiddle, New Zealand


John Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda	Damaso Luna, Mexico

Maria Luiza Escorel, Brazil

NGOs and other stakeholders


Jocelyn Dow, Women's Environment and Development Organization	Jacob Scherr, Natural Resource Defence Coucil


Deling Wang, Solar Cookers International and CSD Energy Caucus	Minu Hemmati, Felix Dodds and Toby Middleton, Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future


Solomzi Madikane, South Africa Civil Society Secretariat for the WSSD	Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network



Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Environmental Liaison Centre International and ANPED	Remi Parmentier, Greenpeace International


Chief Bisi Ogunleye, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)	Minu Hemmati, Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future


	Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network

Kaarin Taipale, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives	Konrad Otto-Zimmerman, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

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