The Council
The World Future Council (WFC) consists of up to 50 respected personalities from all five continents. They represent governments, parliaments, the arts, civil society, academia and the business world. Together they form a voice for the rights of future generations. You can find the biographies of all Councillors as well as Honorary Councillors here.
Councillors
Hafsat Abiola-Costello
Founder, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)
Shawn A-in-chut Atleo
National Chief to the Assembly of First Nations in Canada
Monique Barbut
Special Advisor to the CEO of Agence Française de Développement Group and former CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
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
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Senior Director, Sustainable Prosperity
Tahia Devisscher
Go4Biodiv Messenger, Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Oxford
Prof. Dr. Tewolde Berhan G. Egziabher
Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia
Dr. Scilla Elworthy
Founder, Oxford Research Group, Founder, Peace Direct
Anda Filip
Director for Member Parliaments and External Relations at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Dr. Sándor Fülöp
Former Parliamentary Commissioner for future generations in Hungary
Prof. Rafia Ghubash
President, Arab Network for Women, Science and Technology, former President, Arabian Gulf University
Luc Gnacadja
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Ashok Khosla
Chairman, Centre for Development Alternatives
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich
Former Scientific and Managing Director, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment
David Krieger
President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Dr. Rama Mani
Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford & Vice Chair, Academic Council on the United Nations System
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
Founder, Trustee of Agriculture Man Ecology [AME], Foundation of India
Prof. Dr. Vandana Shiva
Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
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
Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Dr. Olivier Giscard D'Estaing
Chairman of the INSEAD Foundation, of the European League for Economic Co-operation France and of the COPAM (Comite pour un Parlement Mondial)
Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE
Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
Sir James R. Mancham
Founding President of the Republic of Seychelles, President of the Global Peace Council of the Universal Peace Federation
Youssou N'Dour
Musician, Human Rights Advocate, Tourism and Culture Minister in Senegal
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
Youth Advisor
Kehkashan Basu
UNEP Major Groups Facilitating Committee, Global Coordinator for Children & Youth
