It is with great excitement that we announce the judging panel for the 7th International Green Awards™. The judging panel is composed of carefully chosen professionals, representing government, business and third sector initiatives aimed at promoting sustainability in the global arena.
Confirmed judges for 2012 include;
Kumi Naidoo – Executive Director of Greenpeace International and President of the civil society alliance ‘Global Campaign for Climate Action’ (GCCA) South Africa
José María Figueres – Former Costa Rican President and current President, Carbon War Room, USA
Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute, USA
Jane Henley , Chief Executive Officer, World Green Building Council, New Zealand
Rajesh Tiwari, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Indian Centre for CSR, India
Evgeny Shvarts – Director of Conservation Policy of WWF-Russia
Peter Neill, Director, World Ocean Observatory, USA
Dr Ania Grobicki – Executive Secretary, Global Water Partnership (GWP) Sweden
David Jones, Chief Executive, The Havas Group, UK
Pankaj Bhatia – Director, GHG Protocol, World Resources Institute, USA
Dermot O’Gorman, CEO, WWF Australia, Australia
Steve Sawyer , Secretary General, Global Wind Energy Council, USA
Eliot Whittington, Director of the Prince of Wales’s UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change UK
Felix Dodds, Executive Director, Stakeholder Forum, Spain
Joanna Węgrzycka, Vice President, Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation, Poland
Phil Wynn Owen, Director General, Dept of Energy & Climate Change, UK
Emma Synnott, Sustainable Cities Expert, Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, UK
Fabio Biolcati, Made in Forest Co-Founder And CEO, Eco Cities, Brazil
Pietro Laureano, Architect and urban planner, is a UNESCO consultant, Italy
Usha Rao-Monari , Global Head of Water & Waste in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources International Finance Cooperation IFC, USA
Rhone Resch, President & CEO, Solar Energy Industry Association, USA
Frank Biermann – Professor and Head, Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands