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undergraduate degree in international business and has a post-graduate degree in environmental education.Camila has been working locally, nationally, and internationally with youth and environment since 1999.As a researcher and youth leader, she coordinated the GEO for Youth Brazil Project, developed inpartnership with the NGO Interagir, the Latin American and Caribbean Office of UNEP, the ministers ofenvironment and education of Brazil and the National Youth Secretariat. Since 2002, she has taken part inseveral international conferences, networks and training programmes, including the UNEP TUNZA YouthCouncil (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 projectthat she developed in the community of Mussurunga, a slum in Salvador, Brazil. She has been a member of theEarth Charter Youth Initiative since 2002, and from 2005 to 2007 a member of its Core Group. Camila foundedand coordinates an Earth Charter Youth Group in Brazil, now incorporated into the Diversity Institute, where shepromotes the Earth Charter among youth and community leaders in poor communities.Camila currently coordinates projects related to community development in the Diversity Institute. Sheis also the coordinator of the department of corporate responsibility of the Jorge Amado University and ispart of the Expert Team A of the Forest Stewadership Council Plantations Review on “Raising the Bar onCorporate Responsibility”.Wakako Hironaka (Japan)The Democratic Party of Japan Headquarters1-11-1 Nagata-choChiyoda-kuTokyo 100-0014 - JapanWakako Hironaka is a member of Japan’s House of Councilors, elected from Chiba Prefecture in July 2004,and is currently serving her fourth term. She is currently serving as chair of the Research Committee onEconomy, Industry and Employment, and as a member of the Committee on Education, Culture and Sciencein the House of Councilors. She is vice-president of the Democratic Party of Japan. In 1993-94, she was stateminister, director-general of Environment Agency in the Hosokawa Cabinet. Ms. Hironaka is also activeinternationally, 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. inAnthropology from Brandeis University. She has written several books, essays, translations, and critiques oneducation, culture, society, and women’s issues, including Between Two Cultures: Woman - Her Work andFamily (1979), Politics is Unexpectedly Interesting (1989), and translations of Ezra Vogel’s Japan as NumberOne and Haru Reischauer’s Samurai & Silk (Kinu to Bushi).Barbro Holmberg (Sweden)Slottet802 66 Gävle, SwedenBarbro Holmberg is a recognized Swedish Social Democratic politician. She has servedfor many years the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1999, she became a political adviser andEarth Charter InitiativeHANDBOOK |55|