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Jury du Prix Équateur 2006 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.
