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Make development more sustainable by
funding scholarships, fellowships, research programs, intellectual activities, and projects in relevant fields, including engineering, life, physical, and social sciences. |
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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. |
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Improve the analytical and policy skills of public and private sector decision-makers. |
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Governing Board |
Distinguished Advisory Council (DAC)
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Mr. Gerald C. Gummersell
President, The Gummersell Group, Montreal, Canada |
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Dr. Peter Meier
President, IDEA Inc., London, UK
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Dr. Anusha Munasinghe
Gunasekera
Executive Secretary |
Dr. Atiq Rahman
Director-General, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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Dr. Ranjiva Munasinghe
Treasurer |
Prof. Dr. Jon Martin Trondallen
President, International Water Academy, Oslo, Norway |
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Mr. Ranjan C.Gooneratne
Legal Counsel |
Prof. Jeremy Warford
Visiting Professor, CSERGE, University College London, UK |
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Dr. Kumudu Gunasekera
Board Advisor |
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Ms. Yvani Deraniyagala
Board Advisor |
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FOUNDING CHAIRMAN PROF. MOHAN MUNASINGHE
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe
is Vice Chair of the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), co-winner of the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize. 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); Honorary Senior Advisor to the Govt. of Sri Lanka; and Visiting Professor, United Nations Univ., Tokyo.
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, India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UK and USA. |
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