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The International Resource Panel

Confirmed Resource Panel members for 2008-2010

Ernst U. von
International Resource Panel Co-Chair, Former Chairman of the Bundestag
Weizsäcker
Environment Committee
(co-chair)

Ashok Khosla International Resource Panel Co-Chair, President, IUCN, and Founder,
(co-chair) Development Alternatives, India

Former Assistant Executive Director (2001-2003), United Nations

Jacqueline Aloisi
Environment Programme (UNEP) and Director (1987-2003), UNEP Division
de Larderel
of Technology, Industry and Economics

Director, Material Flows & Resource Management, Wuppertal Institute,

Stefan Bringezu
Germany

Partha Dasgupta Professor, Cambridge University, UK

Eric Eboh Executive Director, African Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria

Marina Fischer- Director, Institute of Social Ecology, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies,
Kowalski University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Thomas Graedel Professor, Industrial Ecology, Yale University, USA

Yvan Hardy Chief Scientist (2003-2007), Natural Resources Canada

Director, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Maarten Hajer
Professor of Public Policy, University of Amsterdam

Professor, Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Norwegian University

Edgar Hertwich
of Science and Technology

Lea Kauppi Director General, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Jacqueline
Executive Director, European Environment Agency (EEA)
McGlade

Jeffrey McNeely Chief Scientist, The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

Director, Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management,

Yuichi Moriguchi
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

Khawar Mumtaz Director, Shirkat Ghah, Women Resource Centre, Pakistan

Mohan Director General, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of

Munasinghe Manchester, UK

Richard Norgaard Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Kevin Urama Director, African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya

Walter Pengue Professor, Buenos Aires University, Argentina

Deputy Director-General, Policy Research Center for Environment and

Yong Ren
Economy, Ministry for Environmental Protection, China

Maria Rodrigues President, Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics, Brazil

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Patricia Romero Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National
Lankao Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), Mexico

Anna Bella
Director, Centre for Lean Systems, De La Salle University, The Philippines
Siriban-Manalang

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering,

Sangwon Suh
University of Minnesota, USA

Professor, Sustainable Development Planning and Management, University of

Mark Swilling
Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa

Steering Committee
The Steering Committee, consisting of representatives from governments, the EC, UNEP and other organisations, advises on annual work
programmes and budgets.

Members of the Steering Committee as of January 2009 are as follows:

Sylvie Lemmet: Director, UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (co-chair)
Soledad Blanco: Director, Industry, DG Environment, European Commission (co-chair)

National Governments

Canada: Natural Resources Canada

Chile: Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente

China: The Ministry of Environmental Protection

Egypt: Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs

Finland: Ministry of the Environment

France: Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional planning

Germany: Federal Ministry for the Environment

Hungary: Ministry of Environment and Water

India: Ministry of Environment and Forests

Indonesia: Ministry of Environment

Italy: Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea

Japan: Ministry of Environment

Kazakhstan: Ministry of Environmental Protection

Mexico: Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources

Netherlands: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Norway: Ministry of the Environment

South Africa: Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism

Switzerland: Federal Office for the Environment

Russian Federation: Ministry of Natural Resources

Tanzania: Ministry of Water and Irrigation

USA: State Department

Intergovernmental Organizations

European Commission: Environment Directorate-General

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Civil Society Organizations

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International Council for Science (ICSU)

The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Secretariat
The Panel will be supported by a Secretariat, hosted by the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of UNEP's Division of
Technology, Industry and Economics, based in Paris, France.

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