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As a researcher and youth leader, she coordinated the GEO for Youth Brazil Project, developed in
environment and education of Brazil and the National Youth Secretariat. Since 2002, she has taken part in
several international conferences, networks and training programmes, including the UNEP TUNZA Youth
Council (2003-2005) and Commission of Sustainable Development Youth Caucus and Education Caucus.
In 2002 she received the Petrobras/Universidade Solidaria Merit Award for an environmental education project
that she developed in the community of Mussurunga, a slum in Salvador, Brazil. She has been a member of the
Earth Charter Youth Initiative since 2002, and from 2005 to 2007 a member of its Core Group. Camila founded
and coordinates an Earth Charter Youth Group in Brazil, now incorporated into the Diversity Institute, where she
promotes the Earth Charter among youth and community leaders in poor communities.
Camila currently coordinates projects related to community development in the Diversity Institute. She
is also the coordinator of the department of corporate responsibility of the Jorge Amado University and is
part of the Expert Team A of the Forest Stewadership Council Plantations Review on “Raising the Bar on
Corporate Responsibility”.
Wakako Hironaka (Japan)
Tokyo 100-0014 - Japan
Wakako Hironaka served as a member of Japan’s House of Councilors till 2010, elected from Chiba
Prefecture in July 2004. She used to be the vice-president of the Democratic Party of Japan. In 1993-94,
she was state minister, director-general of Environment Agency in the Hosokawa Cabinet. Ms. Hironaka is
also active internationally, as a member of the Earth Charter Commission, GLOBE, and GEA.
Ms. Hironaka received a B.A. in English from Ochanomizu Women’s University and an M.A. in
Anthropology from Brandeis University. She has written several books, essays, translations, and critiques on
education, culture, society, and women’s issues, including Between Two Cultures: Woman - Her Work and
Family (1979), Politics is Unexpectedly Interesting (1989), and translations of Ezra Vogel’s Japan as Number
One and Haru Reischauer’s Samurai & Silk (Kinu to Bushi).
Barbro Holmberg (Sweden)
Slottet
802 66 Gävle, Sweden
Barbro Holmberg is a recognized Swedish Social Democratic politician. She has served for many years the
Children Project as a project leader. In 2002, she was appointed as the state secretary for that ministry, and
during the period of 2003 to 2006, she served as the minister for asylum and migration. In addition to her
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