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Equator Prize 2006 Jury At the invitation of Kemal Dervis, UNDP Administrator, and Timothy E. Wirth, Chairman of the United Nations Foundation, and on behalf of all the members of the Equator Initiative partnership, a panel of highly distinguished international figures has come together to form the Jury for the Equator Prize 2006. This Jury represents an extraordinary body of expertise and experience in environment development issues from across the world. The Jury will select the five winners of the Equator Prize 2006 from a subset of 25 extraordinary finalist projects, themselves drawn from the pool of 310 nominations by the Technical Advisory Committee. The results of the Jury's deliberations are announced at the Equator Prize 2006 Award Ceremony in the spring of 2007. Her
Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal Dr. Mohamed El-Ashry Ms.
Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro Professor
Jeffrey D. Sachs Prof.
M.S. Swaminathan Victoria Tauli-Corpuz H.R.H. Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan Dr. Mohamed El-Ashry
Ms.
Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro
Jeffrey
D. Sachs, PhD
From 2002 to 2006 Dr. Sachs was the Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to the former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time Magazine, and received the 2005 Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice. Sachs is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor M.S. Swaminathan
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
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Her
Royal Highness Princess Basma has worked nationally, regionally and
internationally for nearly thirty years to promote a range of global
issues, most notably in the areas of human development, gender equity,
and the well-being and development of children. She plays an active advocacy
role through forums such as the United Nations, contributing to global
strategies on health, education, population, the environment, and the
advancement of women. Her Royal Highness is also involved with supporting
the implementation of sustainable development programs that address the
social and economic needs of marginalized groups. She was instrumental
in establishing the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD)
and the Queen Zein Al Sharaf Institute for Development (ZENID). She also
established the Jordanian National Commission for Women. Her Royal Highness
was instrumental in the International Advisory Group to the UN Secretary
General in preparation for the 1995 Conference on Women and has contributed
to international organizations by serving as Goodwill Ambassador for
UNFPA and as a member of the UNESCO International Advisory Board of the
International Council on Social Welfare and the UNESCO International
Panel on Democracy and Development.
Dr.
Mohamed T. El-Ashry is a Senior Fellow at the United
Nations Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, Dr. El-Ashry served
as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) from 1994 to 2003. Under his leadership, GEF grew from a pilot
program with less than 30 members to the largest single source of funding
for the global environment with 173 member countries. Prior to joining
the GEF he served as the Chief Environmental Adviser to the President
and Director of the Environment Department at the 
Yolanda
Kakabadse Navarro became involved
with the environmental conservation movement in 1979, when she was appointed
Executive Director of Fundación
Natura in Quito, Ecuador. where she worked until 1990. From 1990 until
1992, Ms. Kakabadse Navarro coordinated the participation of civil society
organizations in the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development
(UNCED) and in 1993 founded the NGO Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano,
for which she currently serves as the Executive President. In August
1998 she was appointed Minister of the Environment for the Republic of
Ecuador, a position she held until January 2000. A board member of numerous
international bodies dedicated to protecting the environment, Ms. Kakabadse
Navarro has received the Insignia of the National Order for Merit of
the Republic of Ecuador, the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment
Program, and the Order of the Golden Ark, bestowed by Prince Bernard
of The Netherlands. In addition, Ms. Kakabadse serves as advisor to the
President of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and is a member
of the Advisory Board of INBio. She is also a member of the Board of
the World Resources Institute, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and
the Ford Foundation.
Jeffrey
D. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute,
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health
Policy and Management at Columbia University. Dr. Sachs is also the President
and Co-Founder of the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization
aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is widely considered to be
the leading international economic advisor of his generation and for
more than 20 years has been in the forefront of the challenges of economic
development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting
policies to help all parts of the world benefit from expanding economic
opportunities and wellbeing. Dr. Sachs is also one of the leading voices
for combining economic development with environmental sustainability,
and as Director of the Earth Institute leads large-scale efforts to promote
the mitigation of human-induced climate change.
TIME Magazine acclaimed Professor
Swaminathan as one
of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century. He has been
a world leader in sustainable development for more than 45 years and
has been described by the United Nations Environment Programas "the
Father of Economic Ecology." Dr.
Swaminathan served as Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (1972-78) and of the International Rice Research Institute (1982-88).
He has also served as Independent Chairman of the FAO Council (1981-85)
and as the President of International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(1984-1990). For his work in crop genetics and sustainable agricultural
development in India and other developing nations, he was awarded the
first World Food Prize in 1987, the Tyler and Honda Prizes in 1991, and
the UNEP Sasakawa Award in 1994. He is a former president of the National
Academy of Agricultural Sciences of India, is a member of the Royal Society
of London, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy,
and the Italian and Chinese Academies.
Vicky Tauli-Corpuz serves as the Chair
of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and as the
Executive Director of the Tebtebba Foundation in the Philippines. Since
1993, she has been a Co-Chair of the Indigenous Caucus of the UN Commission
of Sustainable Development NGO Steering Committee and is also a Board
Member of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and the Vice
President of the International Training Center of Indigenous Peoples
(ITCIP). For many years, she has been the voice
of indigenous people around the world and has sought to bring all of
them together in policy-making and global advocacy.
