About Us
 
 

Objectives


 

Make development more sustainable by funding scholarships, fellowships, research programs, intellectual activities, and projects in relevant fields, including engineering, life, physical, and social sciences.
 
 
Increase awareness of the need to balance and integrate the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, and to identify unsustainable elements in existing patterns of development.
 
 
Improve the analytical and policy skills of public and private sector decision-makers.
 
 
Structure
     
 
  Governing Board
Distinguished Advisory Council (DAC)
 
 
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe
Founding Chairman
Mr. Gerald C. Gummersell
President, The Gummersell Group, Montreal, Canada
 
 
Ms. Sria Munasinghe
Vice Chair
Dr. Peter Meier
President, IDEA Inc., London, UK
 
 
Dr. Anusha Munasinghe Gunasekera
Executive Secretary
Dr. Atiq Rahman
Director-General, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
 
Dr. Ranjiva Munasinghe
Treasurer
Prof. Dr. Jon Martin Trondallen
President, International Water Academy, Oslo, Norway
 
 
Mr. Ranjan C.Gooneratne
Legal Counsel
Prof. Jeremy Warford
Visiting Professor, CSERGE, University College London, UK
 
 
Dr. Kumudu Gunasekera
Board Advisor
   
 

Ms. Yvani Deraniyagala
Board Advisor

   

 

 

       
 
FOUNDING CHAIRMAN PROF. MOHAN MUNASINGHE

Sri Lankan born Prof. Mohan Munasinghe shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, as Vice Chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has postgraduate degrees in physics, engineering and economics, from Cambridge University (UK), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), McGill University (Canada), and Concordia University (Canada); as well as several honorary doctorates (honoris causa). Presently, he is Chairman, Munasinghe Institute of Development (MIND); Director-General, Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), University of Manchester, UK; and Honorary Senior Advisor to the Govt. of Sri Lanka. Highlights of over 35 years of distinguished public service include working as the Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka (1982-87), and Advisor to the US President's Council on Environmental Quality (1990-92). Until 2002, he served in the World Bank as a Senior Manager and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Development. He has won a number of international prizes and medals for his research, and authored over 90 books and three hundred technical papers on sustainable development, environment, information technology, energy, water resources, transport, and economics. He is a Fellow of many internationally recognized Academies of Science, and serves on the editorial boards of over a dozen international journals. He has lectured in major universities in Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UK and USA.
 
 

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