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Council of Commissioners

In addition to a council of Co-Chairs, the Commission will be steered by several hundred Commissioners. These stakeholders will be an active deliberative body and will be part of a global network of diverse leaders drawn from civil society constituencies, government and business.

As of September 3, 2001, the following persons have confirmed their commitment to serve as Commissioners on the Commission:

Rebecca Adamson
President, First Nations Development Institute

Techeste Ahderom
Secretary General, Congress of Non-Governmental Organizations

Nuno Miguel Teixeira de Azevedo
Chairman, Global Advisory Board Sonae SGPS

Alicia Barcena
Diretora da Divisao de Meio Ambiente e Assentamentos Humanos CEPAL - Comissao Economica para America Latina

Monique Begin
Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa

Angela Blackwell
Director General, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada

Charlotte Bunch
Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University

Aspasia Camargo
Executive Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Water Resources and the Amazon

Paul Cappon
Director General, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada

Barry Carin
High Commissioner of Canada to Singapore (1996 - 2000)

Nat Colletta
Founding Manager, Post Conflict Unit, World Bank (1998 - 2001)

Apela Colorado
Founder, Worldwide Indigenous Science Network

Thais Corral
Vice President, Women's Environment and Development Organization, Brazil

Clare Cowan
Chair and CEO, Indutiae.com, Canada

Linda Crompton
Board member, The Liu Centre and Commissioner for the Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission

Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira
President, National Council on Women's Rights

Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Executive Director, UNEP (1993 - 1998), Canada

William Drayton
President, Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Hans-Peter Duerr
em. Director, Professor, Max-Planck Institut fur Physik

Anthony Giddens
Director, London School of Economics

Ted Hall
Director, McKinsey & Company

Halle Hanssen
Former Secretary General of Norwegian People's Aid

Khadija Haq
President, Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, Pakistan

Hazel Henderson
Author, Futurist, Economist

Hans Michael Holz
Head, Global External Relations, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany

Will Hutton
Chief Executive, The Industrial Society, UK

Devaki Jain
Women's Rights Advocate (India)

Laszlo Kapolyi
Chairman of the Board, System Consulting PLC, Hungary

David Korten
President, The People Centered Development Forum

Bart Jan Krouwel
Director, Sustainability and Innovation, Rabobank Group, the Netherlands

Huguette LaBelle
President, Canadian International Development Agency (1993 - 1997), Canada

Michael Levett
President, Citizens Democracy Corps

Walter Link
Chairman, The Global Academy

Amory Lovins
CEO of Research, Rocky Mountain Institute

Hunter Lovins
CEO of Strategy, Rocky Mountain Institute

Richard Medley
President, Medley Global Advisors

Paola Melchiori
President, Crinali, Italy

Harriet Mouchly-Weiss
Managing Partner, Strategy XXI

Dragoljub Najman
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to UNESCO

Oscar Olivera
Executive Secretary, Cochabamba Federation of Factory Workers

Marcello Palazzi
Founder and President, Progressio Foundation, the Netherlands

Martin Palmer
Director, Alliance for Religion and Conservation, UK

Bernice Patterson
Chairman, Pioneer Health Care Services

C.E. Patterson
President, MacKenzie Patterson, Inc.

Nicanor Perlas
President, Center for Alternative Development Initiatives

Howard Perlmutter
Emeritus Professor of Social Architecture and Management, The Wharton School

Aruna Rao
President, Association for Women's Rights in Development, India

Mark Ritchie
President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

Kumar Rupesinghe
Secretary-General, International Alert (1992 - 1999)

Alison Sander
Manager, Boston Consulting Group

John Sewell
President, Overseas Development Council (1980-2000)

Leticia Shahani
Secretary General, UN Third World Conference on Women 1985, Nairobi, Kenya

Barbara Shailor
Director, International Affairs Department, AFL-CIO

Gordon Smith
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada (1994 - 1997)

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Professor, University of Coimbra, School of Economics, Portugal

Tom Spencer
Executive Director, European Centre for Public Affairs, UK

Majid Tehranian
Director, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research

Kathryn Williams
Chairperson of the Board, KRW International

Kees Zoeteman
Deputy Director General for Environmental Protection, the Netherlands