Participant List
GEA Conference for Sustainable Future〜Education, IT and Natural Resources〜
ChairmanJiro Kondo

Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo

Special Speech
Steven C. Rockefeller

Professor Emeritus, Middlebury CollegeCo-chair,EarthCharterInternational

Steering

Committee
Chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Special Guest
Princess Basma Bint Talal

Princess of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Michael Rawding

President, Microsoft Co., Ltd.

Working Group I“Education”● Overseas
Princess Basma Bint Talal

Princess of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Douglas BournDirector, Development Education Association, UK

Farah Daghistani

Executive Director, Jordanian Hashemite Fund for
Human Development (JOHUD)

Hans van Ginkel

Rector, United Nations University (UNU)
President, International Association of University(IAU)/Guest,

GlobalHigher

Educationfor

Sustainability Partnership (GHESP)
Wendy Goldstein

Coordinator, Education & Communication, The World
Conservation Union (IUCN)

Mary Joy Pigozzi

Director, Division for the Promotion of Quality
Education, United Nations Educational Scientific andCultural Organization (UNESCO)

Steven C. Rockefeller

Professor Emeritus, Middlebury College
Co-chair,EarthCharterInternational

Steering

Committee
Chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Thavivongse Sriburi

Deputy Director, Environmental Research Institute,Chulalongkorn University, Thailand● Japanese
Ryokichi Hirono

Professor Emeritus, Seikei University

Jiro Kondo

Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo

Kimiko Kozawa

Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University

Shuichi Nakayama

Professor, Graduate School for International
Development

andCooperation,

Hiroshima

University

Working Group II“IT”● Overseas
Vinya S. Ariyaratne

Executive Director, Sarvodaya Sharmadana Movement

Jean-Louis Armand

President, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Brendan Barrett

Academic

ProgrammeOfficer,

UnitedNations

University (UNU)
Lori A. Forman

Regional Director, Community Affairs, Asia Pacific,
Greater China, Japan, Microsoft Corporation

Steve HallsDirector, United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP)-IETC

Björn Stigson

President, World Business Council for SustainableDevelopment● Japanese
Hiroki Tanaka

Director, NTT Energy and Environment Systems
Laboratories

Kimio Uno

Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance,
Keio University

Akira Watanabe

General-Manager, Japan Space Imaging Corporation

Ryoichi Yamamoto

Professor, Center for Collaborative Research, theUniversity of Tokyo

Working Group III“Natural Resources”● Overseas
Techeste Ahderom

SeniorAdvisoron

Recovery,

UnitedNations

Development Programme (UNDP)
Arthur J. Askew

Former Director, Hydrology and Water Resources
Department,

World

MeteorologicalOrganization(WMO)
President-Elect,theInternational

AssociationofHydrological Sciences
Peter Crane

Director, the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Kevin Fay

Executive Director, International Climate ChangePartnership

Joachim FischerHead, Biomass Information Center, Germany Leipzig

A.H. Zakri

Director, United Nations University (UNU)/
Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)● Japanese
Akio Morishima

Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global
Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Shinya Murase

Professor, Sophia University

Katsumi Musiake

Professor, Fukushima University
SecretaryGeneral,

Asia

PacificAssociationofHydrology and Water Resources
Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo
Akiyoshi Sakoda

Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the Universityof Tokyo

Motoyuki Suzuki

Professor, the University of the Air
Special Academic Advisor, United Nations University(UNU)(in alphabetical order)