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Biographies of abdvisry panel
Johan Rockström
Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Johan Rockström is the Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a Professor in Natural Resource Management at
Stockholm University and a guest Professor at the Beijing Normal University. He is a leading
international scientist on global water resources and sustainable development, with more
than 15 years experience of research on agriculture, water resources and ecosystems and
integrated water resource management in tropical regions, with more than 50 peer reviewed
scientific articles and several books in fields of global environmental change, resilience and
sustainability, agricultural water management, watershed hydrology, global water resources
and food production, and eco-hydrology. He has served as advisor to several international
organizations, governments and the European Union on sustainability and development, and is
a frequented key-note speaker to several international research, policy and development arenas
on sustainable development, global environmental change, and resilience thinking. He serves
on several international committees and boards, including the scientific advisory board of the
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research, the scientific overview committee of ICSU, the
executive board of the Resilience Alliance, and the board of WaterAid Sweden.
Jeffrey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University , New York; Quetelet Professor of
Sustainable Development and of Health Policy and Management,Columbia University;
Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Quetelet
Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at
Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor
to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the
internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.
Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization
aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is widely considered to be the leading international
economic advisor of his generation. In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the 100 most
influential leaders in the world by Time Magazine.
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