Members & Partners

The Resource Panel

Confirmed Resource Panel members for 2008-2010
Ernst U. von Weizsäcker (co-chair) Resource Panel Co-Chair, Former Chairman of the Bundestag Environment Committee
Sanit Aksornkoae
President, Thailand Environment Institute
Jacqueline Aloisi de Larderel
Former Assistant Executive Director (2001-2003), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Director (1987-2003), UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
Stefan Bringezu Director, Material Flows & Resource Management, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
Kanchan Chopra
Director, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
Partha Dasgupta Professor, Cambridge University, UK
Eric Eboh
Executive Director, African Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria
Marina Fischer-Kowalski Director, Institute of Social Ecology, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Thomas Graedel
Professor, Industrial Ecology, Yale University, USA
Yvan Hardy
Chief Scientist (2003-2007), Natural Resources Canada
Edgar Hertwich Professor, Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Lea Kauppi
Secretary General, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
Ashok Khosla

Founder, Development Alternatives, India

Jacqueline McGlade
Executive Director, European Environment Agency (EEA)
Jeffrey McNeely
Chief Scientist, The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Oleg Mitvol
Deputy Head, Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Management, Russia
Yuichi Moriguchi
Director, Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Mohan Munasinghe Director General, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, UK
Richard Norgaard Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kevin Urama
Director, African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya
Walter Pengue Professor, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Yong Ren
Deputy Director-General, Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry for Environmental Protection, China
Maria Rodrigues
President, Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics, Brazil
Patricia Romero Lankao Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), Mexico
Anna Bella Siriban-Manalang Director, Centre for Lean Systems, De La Salle University, The Philippines
Sangwon Suh Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
Mark Swilling Professor, Sustainable Development Planning and Management, University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa


Steering Committee

The Steering Committee, consisting of representatives from governments, the EC, UNEP and other organisations, advises on annual work programmes and budgets.

Members of the Steering Committee as of January 2009 are as follows:

Sylvie Lemmet: Director, UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (co-chair)
Timo Mäkelä: Director, Sustainable Development and Integration, DG Environment, European Commission (co-chair)

National Governments
Canada: Natural Resources Canada
Chile: Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente
China: The Ministry of Environmental Protection
Egypt: Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs
Finland: Ministry of the Environment
France: Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional planning
Germany: Federal Ministry for the Environment
Hungary: Ministry of Environment and Water
Italy: Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea
Japan: Ministry of Environment
Kazakhstan: Ministry of Environmental Protection
Mexico: Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources
Netherlands: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
Norway: Ministry of the Environment
South Africa: Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism
Russian Federation: Ministry of Natural Resources
Tanzania: Ministry of Water and Irrigation
 
Intergovernmental Organizations
European Commission: Environment Directorate-General
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
 
Civil Society Organizations

International Council for Science (ICSU)

The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)


Secretariat

The Panel will be supported by a Secretariat, hosted by the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, based in Paris, France.