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Jurado del Premio Ecuatorial 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.
