Herman Mulder

Herman was Director-General and Head of Group Risk Management of ABN AMRO Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands from 1998 -2006. In the period 1995-1998, he worked at ABM AMRO as Head of Global Structured Finance.

During his tenure as Director-General it became the premier international bank in sustainable development. Since retiring from ABN AMRO he has been able to dedicate himself as an indpedentpent advisor and board member to all dimensions of sustainable development: voluntary business codes of conduct, climate, value chain, micofinance, social entrepreneurship, development finance and fair trade.

He advises i.a. Global Compact, WBSCD, Club de Madrid, Taellberg Foundation, OXFAM NOVIB, Earth Charter International, Youth Employment & Sustainability (YES); he is a member of the judging panel of the FT/IFC Sustainable Bank Awards. Herman Mulder is also a member of a number of boards including: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Utz Certified/Good Inside, Dutch National Council for Development Co-operation and Sustainable Development (NCDO), Dutch National Contact point for OECD Guidelines (NCP), Business in Development (BID), ABN AMRO Foundation India, Business Steering Committee for the UN Finance for Development conference in Doha in 2008 and the CBI (Consensus Building Institute) in Boston.

He is also a frequent public speaker and a member of the Steering Committee of the Worldconnector. He was made a Knight in the Royal Order of Oranje Nassau for his work in Sustainable Developement.

Joan Martinez Alier

Joan joined the Department of Economics and Economic History in 1975. He has directed the Doctoral Programme in Environmental Sciences (in the option of Ecological Economics and Environmental Management) since 1997, at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the UAB. He has been a research fellow / senior associate member of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and visiting professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brasil), Free University of Berlin, Stanford University and University of California (Davis), Yale University, and FLACSO Sede-Ecuador. His research interests comprise Agrarian History, Environmental History, Ecological Economics, Environmental Policy, Political Ecology.

He is the author of many academic articles, and a member of the editorial committee of Ecological Economics, Environmental Values, Journal of Agrarian Change and other journals. He edits the journal Ecología Política (Icaria Editorial, Barcelona). Since 2000 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency. He is a founding member and former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. His main books (in English) include Ecological Economics: Energy Environment and Society (1987), Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (with Ramachandra Guha, 1997), The Environmentalism of the Poor: a Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (2002). With Robert Costanza and Olman Segura he edited Getting down to earth: practical applications of ecological economics (1996), and with Inge Ropke he edited Recent Developments in Ecological Economics (2 vols, 2008). He is co-editor with Pushpam Kumar of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being (Oxford U.P.. Delhi).

Meenakshi Madhvani

Meenakshi Madhvani has over 30 years of experience in Advertising, Marketing and Media. She started her career in 1980 with Lintas Media Group in Account Management & Account Planning. She joined Zee TV in 1994 to head the Sales & Marketing function and left as Managing Director. In 1997, Meenakshi joined Aegis Group Plc to set up Carat India, the first media independent in the country. She Launched Spatial Access Solutions in 2003 – India’s first Audit & Advisory in Marketing Services. Meenakshi was selected by Ad Age Global as one of the 17 women worldwide who were changing the face of the advertising industry across the globe.