The Council
The World Future Council is composed of Councillors and Honorary Councillors from all around the world. Click the orange dots on the map - and find out where they come from or where they focus their activities.
Councillors
Hafsat Abiola-Costello
Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)
Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish
Founder, SEKEM
Shawn A-in-chut Atleo
National Chief to the Assembly of First Nations in Canada
Maude Barlow
Former first Senior Advisor to the UN on water issues to the President of the UN General Assembly
Dipal Chandra Barua
Co-founder of the Grameen Bank, Founding Manager of the Grameen Shakti, Founder and Chairman of the Bright Green Energy Foundation
Ana María Cetto
Research professor of the Institute of Physics and lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Rae Kwon Chung
Director, Environment and Sustainable Division, UNESCAP
Tony Colman
Director, Africapractice
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Senior Director, Sustainable Prosperity
Thais Corral
Co-founder, Women, Environment and Development Organization
The Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
Chairman of Sancroft International and President of GLOBE International
Nicholas Dunlop
Co-founder and Secretary General, e-Parliament
Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Dürr
Nuclear physicist and philosopher
Jared Duval
Author and Fellow, Demos
Prof. Dr. Tewolde Berhan Egziabher
Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia
Riane Eisler
President, Centre for Partnership Studies
Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Founder, Oxford Research Group
María Fernanda Espinosa
Minister of Natural and Cultural Heritage from the Republic of Ecuador
Fabio Feldmann
Secretary, Paulista Forum on Global Climate Change and Biodiversity; Board of Directors, Greenpeace International
Tim Flannery
Chairman, Copenhagen Climate Council
Dr. Sándor Fülöp
Parliamentary Commissioner for future generations in Hungary
Prof. Rafia Ghubash
President, Arab Network for Women, Science and Technology, former President, Arabian Gulf University
Daryl Hannah
Actress and advocate for a sustainable world
Cyd Ho
Member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council
Wes Jackson
Co-founder and President, The Land Institute
Ashok Khosla
President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Chairman, Centre for Development Alternatives
Prof. C. S. Kiang
Founding Dean, College of Environmental Sciences, Beijing
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich
Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment
David Krieger
President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Alexander Likhotal
President, Green Cross International
Dr. Rama Mani
Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies (University of Oxford); Director of the Global Project 'Responsibility to Protect: Southern Cultural Perspectives'
Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Director General of IUCN
Prof. Dr. Manfred Max-Neef
Pioneer of 'Barefoot Economics'
Anuradha Mittal
Founder and Executive Director, Oakland Institute
Frances Moore Lappé
Founder, Small Planet Institute
Youssou N'Dour
Musician and human rights advocate
Dr. Katiana Orluc
Middle Eastern expert; visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
President, Centre of Strategies and Security in the Sahel Sahara
Dr. Vithal Rajan
Vice-President, Oxfam India, Chairman, Governing Body/Confederation of Voluntary Associations
Prof. Dr. Vandana Shiva
Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Sulak Sivaraksa
Co-founder, International Network of Engaged Buddhists
Count Hans-Christof von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary General; Professor at Marburg University
Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki
Chairman, Central Environmental Council, Japan
Pauline Tangiora
Maori elder, Rongomaiwahine Tribe
Alyn Ware
Founder and international coordinator of the Network Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
Judge C. G. Weeramantry
Former Vice-President, International Court of Justice
Francisco Whitaker
Co-founder, World Social Forum
Anders Wijkman
Vice-President, the Club of Rome; Former President, GLOBE EU; former UN Assistant Secretary General
Honorary Councillors
Patrus Ananias
Former Brazilian Minister of Social Development and the Fight against Hunger
Ahmed Djoghlaf
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Prof. Herbert Girardet
Co-Founder, World Future Council
Dr. Olivier Giscard D'Estaing
Chairman, INSEAD Foundation
Prof. Dr. Wangari Maathai (d. 2011)
Founder, Green Belt Movement
Dr. Gertrude Ibengwé Mongella
Former President of the Pan-African Parliament
Dr. Michael Otto
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Otto Group
The Hon. Arthur N.R. Robinson
Former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Co-Chair, International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management