Delhi's session of the World Sustainable Development Forum looks like it has grouped together a benchmark collection of speakers - DSDS 24-27 January


HE Mr Ahmed AbdullahMinister of Environment, Energy and Water, Republic of Maldives
Dr Montek Singh AhluwaliaHon’ble Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India
Mr Ashok AlexanderDirector – India, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
HE Mr Malik Amin AslamMinister of State for Environment, Pakistan
Dr Alok AdholeyaDirector, Biotechnology and Management of Bioresources Division, TERI
HE Mr Svend AukenMember of Parliament, Vice President of The Danish Parliament and Dy. Speaker, Government of Denmark
HE Mr Anil Kumar BachooMinister of Environment and National Development Unit, Government of Mauritius
Ms Preety BhandariDirector, Policy Analysis Division, TERI
Mr Howard BamseyDeputy Secretary, Australian Department of Environment and Heritage, Australia
Dr James Bakerformer President & CEO - The Academy of Natural Sciences & Senior Fellow, The H. John Heinz III Centre for Science, Economics and Environment, USA Mr R K BatraDistinguished Fellow, TERI
Ms Monique BarbutCEO & Chairman, Global Environment Facility, USA
Prof. Ralph J BegleiterRosenberg Professor of Communication, University of Delaware and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, USA
Mr Francois BinderCountry Director, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, India
HE Prof Ruud F BoerFormer Prime Minister of the Netherlands
HE Mr Kjell Magne BondevikFormer Prime Minister of Norway
Mr Jean-Paul BouttesDirector, Prospective and International Relations, Electricite de France (EDF), France & CEO, Sherpa, France
Mr Yvo de BoerExecutive Secretary, UNFCCC
Mr Yves CabanaSpecial Advisor to the Chairman, Executive Committee Secretary & Vice President - Sustainable Development, Veolia Environment, France
Mr Raj ChengappaManaging Editor, India Today, Delhi
Nobel Laureate Prof. Paul CrutzenDirector Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Mrs Vibha Puri DasPrincipal Secretary & Commissioner - Forest & Rural Development, Government of Uttaranchal, India
Mr C. DasguptaDistinguished Fellow, TERI
Dr Vibha DhawanVice Chancellor, TERI University
Smt Sheila DikshitHon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi, India
Ms JoAnne DisanoDirector, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, USA
Dr Nitin Desaiformer Under Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr Murli S DeoraHon'ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India
HE Dasho Paljor J DorjiAdvisor, National Environment Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan
Dr Adnan A Shihab-EldinFormer Acting Secretary General and Director of Research at OPEC as well as Advisor to Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Austria
Mr Warren EvansDirector of Environment, The World Bank, USA
Mr Pieter van GeelCabinet level, State Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Netherlands
Ms Sharwaree GokhalePrincipal Secretary, Environment, Government of Maharashtra, India
Ms Meenakshi Dutta GhoshSecretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India
Dr Prodipto GhoshSecretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India
Mr Gourishankar GhoshCEO, FXB India SURAKSHA
HE Mr Olafur Ragnar GrimssonPresident of Iceland
HE Ms Tarja HalonenPresident of Finland
Mr Roger HarrabinSenior Environment Analyst, BBC, UK
Prof. Michael von HauffUniversity of Kaislerlautern, Germany
Prof. Peter HennickePresident, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany
HE Mr Petr J KalasMinister of Environment of the Czech Republic
Mr Ashok JaitlyDistinguished Fellow, TERI
HE Prof. Kivutha Kibwana*Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife, Kenya
HE Mr Kazumasa KusakaVice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Dr Arun KumarPresident- Business Initiatives, Development Alternatives, India
Dr Ganesh M KishoreVice President, Science & Technology and Chief Biotechnology Officer, DuPont Research & Development, USA
Prof. Charles KolstadDepartment of Economics, University of California, USA
HE Mr Mamadou Lamine Loumformer Prime Minister of Senegal
Dr Klaus S LacknerEwing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, USA
Dr Bindu N LohaniDirector General - Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank
Mr James LeapeDirector-General, WWF International, Switzerland
HE Mr Brice LalondeFormer French Minister and Chair of the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development, France
Dr Alan C LloydPresident, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), USA
Ms Frannie LeautierVice President, World Bank Institute, USA
HE Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi*Deputy Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa
Mr Herman MulderSenior Advisor to the UN Global Compact and WBCSD
Mr John A ManzoniGroup Managing Director, BP Plc, UK
Mr Yoshiro MoriJapan Water Forum and Member of the UN Secretary General Mr Kofi Annan’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation
Rt. Hon. David MilibandMP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK
Prof. Akio MorishimaChair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
Mr Claude MandilExecutive Director, International Energy Agency, France
Mr Nick MabeyCEO, E3G, UK
Mr Vikram Singh MehtaChairman, Shell Group of Companies in India
Mr Rajiv Mehrotra*Trustee/Secretary, Foundation for Universal Responsibility, India
Dr Lutz MezExecutive Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, University of Berlin, Germany
Ms Tiahoga Ruge SchefferDirector-General, Centre for Education and Training for Sustainable Development, Mexico
Mr Tsutomu MakinoChairman, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan
Mr Sudhir Mankad*, IASChief Secretary, Government of Gujarat, India
Mr Denis McDonoughSenior Fellow and Senior Adviser to Distinguished Senior Fellow Tom Daschle at the Center for American Progress, USA
HE Mr Daudi Migereko*, MPMinister of Energy and Mineral Development, The Republic of Uganda
HE Mr Mark James Mwandosya*Minister of State, Vice President's Office (Environment), Government of Tanzania
Mr R Narayanaswami*, IASChief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi
Mr Hideaki OdaCouncillor to the President, Japan Water Forum & Member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation
Ms Khempheng PholsenaVice-President (Finance and Administration), Asian Development Bank, The Philippines
Dr Pal PrestrudDirector, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo, Norway
Dr R K PachauriDirector-General, TERI
Mr Pekka PlathanDirector General, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Dr Arcot RamachandranChairman, TERI, New Delhi
Mr Sudhakar Rao, IASPrincipal Secretary - Chief Minister's Office, Government of Karnataka, India
Mr A RajaHon'ble Minister for Environment & Forests, Ministry of Environment & Forests, India
Mr Anil RazdanAdditional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India
Ms Cornelia RichterDeutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany
Mr I H RehmanDirector, Action Programmes Division, TERI
Mr Michael P SchulhofChairman, Global Technology Investments, LLC, USA
Mr Anand SharmaHon'ble Minister of State, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Sir Nicholas SternHead of Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, Head of the Government Economic Service, UK
Prof. Saif-ud-Din SozHon’ble Minister of Water Resources, Government of India
Mr S SundarDistinguished Fellow, TERI
Prof. Jeffrey D SachsDirector – The Earth Institute & Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, USA
Mr Björn StigsonPresident, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
Mr Achim SteinerExecutive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya
Mr V SubramanianSecretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India
Dr Leena SrivastavaExecutive Director, TERI, New Delhi
Mr Francis SullivanEnvironment Adviser, HSBC, UK
Prof. Akimasa SumiDirector, Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS) in Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) & Head of AGS Promotion Office, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mr Richard SandorChairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Chicago Climate Exchange, USA Hon'ble Mr Digvijay SinghFormer Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh & General Secretary, All India Congress Committee, India
Mr Anil Vaish* IASChief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan, India
Mr Patrick VerhagenSenior Vice President, Holcim, Zurich
Dr Camilla ToulminInternational Institute for Environment and Development, UK
Ms Pearl TiwariDirector, Ambuja Cement Foundation